Prompts for the Fourth Hour Text Prompt Write a poem set a hundred years ago, or a hundred years from now. Grandpa Lafayette ~willjxn~ My father’s Dad was born to life In 1876. The era of Monet The Music of Debussy. The painting of the…

The light is always there We just can’t always see it The sky is always blue somewhere There was no urgency to be to go no place for wheels to turn no noise no declarative ending just time to shake loose to let go without…

One hundred years from now will we cry out at the ignorance of now? plastic languishing in our bodies, our rivers, our sea. the lingering melodies of mystics and creatives who begged us to see. some immigrated to new celestial stars, trying to capture what…

Stuck in the muck hit by a truck caught in the mire liar liar pants on fire. you dropped your mask it seemed to do the task until it slipped that day, I know you won’t remember you have that narcissistic amnesia. the torch you…

2122 it’s quiet again the machines quelled as night falls we each sit in silent solitude looking out over barren terrain hopeful tomorrow may rain regenerate something anything but the forecast likely disagrees decades gone by at least it hasn’t ended not entirely not yet

There’s a mannequin at the old piano in the woods between your house and Jenny Finnegan’s and it’s warped and ruined and full of leaves But the naked former window model without any legs to control the pedals of the mangled upright: the soft the…

Black lava expanse Miles to reach the sand and sea Sun forces u-turn

In 1922  many years ago my honey would’ve been  quite dapper I’d have been a flapper Always on the go.   Dancing all night We’d rarely fight Drinking in speakeasy bars. Laughing til dawn All our money gone Driving home in  our Model T cars….

The Troubles   She was proudly Irish But never spoke of the strife at home known as The Troubles   Julianne married Tim, many years her senior, and sailed away from Cobh Harbor. 1922.   Sailed away from village life, work in her father’s pub,…

One hundred years ago My great-grandmother was born The world had no idea what it was in for She had three children, five grandsons, and fourteen great grandkids A legacy that continues to this day You never know what a person will be when they’re…