Dear Son

Prompts for the Sixth Hour Text Prompt Write a letter to yourself from the perspective of someone who is no longer in your life. It could be a former teacher you admired but you lost touch with, someone you knew from childhood, someone who passed…

No. 9: Scent

Smell often pairs With taste to Enhance a meal Some smells make You smile fondly Of happy moments Some smells make You jump back Cry with revulsion Smells are powerful Highways leading us To past remembrances

Hour 6 Writing Prompt – Write about this image

Angels on Earth There are members of our families Acquired in many ways. Some stay with us a long, long time And some for merely days. 2 legs, 4 legs, sometimes 3 Fur and feathers, too Squawks and barks and whistling sounds All those kisses…

Chaotic Dog-Eared Books

Chaotic Dog Eared Books The ring from your wine glass left its prominent mark of red saying I was here on your favourite hardback book Don’t books that have stains tell the world I have lived? Like chaotic dog–eared books facing up towards the sun…

Self-Worth

I never thought much of myself just a girl that was told she would never amount to anything too stupid for college but just right for takin orders. those words always stayed in my head. never could I believe in myself never could I appreciate…

Ring of Fire (Hour Five, A Tanka Poem)

Ring of Fire Sitting on my throne, contemplating Life, I can’t help but wonder, how did I wind up here? And then, it hits me: jalapeños!   ****A tanka is a five line poem with the syllable count of 5/7/5/7/7.****

Vines – Hour 5 Prompt

My twenty first birthday was spent in an asylum, not as a patient, but as a guest of the ghosts They watched us make our little movie Maybe we helped them forget, even for a little while, what kept them there Entertaining our spectre spectators…

Epistolary, Hour Six

Dear Tracy, It’s been twenty-two years since I last saw you, but I want you to know I think of you often. I’ve tried to nudge events from this side to help you and the family, and I’d like to think I have. Your guardian…

Hour Six – Reunion

Reunion   I didn’t know you then – Sixteen and pregnant. I didn’t know you in the years after – drinking too much to try and forget. Crying every time you saw a small baby.   May I say – I’m grateful to know you…

Dear Mimi’s Elegy

Dear MarianMonique LeVertaDeniece, (Mimi) I said goodbye to you years ago, but today, I found a need to say hello. Today humanity is living in a pandemic. I know you never heard of it. I wanted to tell you how much I missed you before…