Prompt 1: infinity

infinity in this infinite space of everything i am too many stars have fallen where i am infinite too when prayers from infinity fill me with praying fill me with prayers of infinity i am all i am in all i am in all in all in…

Hour 4: Salvation

Salvation Art can make a man go mad Madness can make a man go blind And art can be his salvation   My dad told me about the Starry Night How Vincent cut off his own ear Art can make a man go mad  …

Innocence Lost Too Soon

won’t you come and live with us? I’ll protect you she says tears in her eyes. I pause in painful silence that a child so young could perceive needs she should never imagine I’d rather have my entrails torn from my bloodied body heart still…

Hour 4 – Nectar

I see you as a butterfly as a momentary blur of color a good omen resting momentarily coy and stunning among the silky primrose petals set off by verdant green drinking in the bouquet before bowing and lilting away   I see you as a…

Silver: Hour 4

These roads were horse tracks once, I hear; curving slowly into the rising hill easing the passage of harvest-heavy carts hauled by teams of horses to each farm – their sweating heads low, necks taut, as their hooves spat sound – ice-sharp – into a…

Waterways

Clear water help me clean my dusty hands The moon laughs above and the fluorescent bacteria light the world below The last of the rations have expired long ago And my only cabin mate, a hermit crab, has found a shell in a distant land…

For the Brave Who Believe

You ask me if my magic can save you And I have to tell you no Magic is only for those who believe In the power of we I cannot conjure something that you will not take to heart Wrap your soul around And believe…

Darkness Defied

Night Dark sky Stark and wide From the bright city But bid the lights goodbye, And see dark skies blossom pretty Points of light, becoming clouds of bitty Distant fires, or rocks in space reflecting light From the hidden sun, behind the gritty Bulk of…

Higher, Ever Higher

Higher Ever higher My gaze rises High above verdant treetops Above triumphant mountain peaks Vaults the punctured backdrop Ever expanding Universe exhaling Faster Ever faster Higher Ever higher Zenith and beyond Shimmering Shining Burning Eternity unfolding Eternally resounding The great remnant called apocalypse