Mercy –Show Mercy from Within

Mercy –Show Mercy from Within   Mercy, let it flow from you Let it flow from within Deal mercifully with me, and with you – Indeed, with them, and with us   Forget not goodness and tender mercy Do you know any that couldn’t use…

Prompts hour eleven: 5 words from the ten

One day at a time. Cloud(y) with rain, and Coming on down. A skyscraper lands on top of another building. Where 9-11 emerged. And killed so many people wow! The New Times Square vanished. They beat(s)the traffic. Workers from Lucy Lucky Bakery. Purchases sourdough of one dozen…

blue like the centre

if i could live in these veins, holding this being in the palm of my hand held over my heart in longing to breathe you back into life in the sun in the field under the sky blue like the cleansing of my want to…

Worlds End Neruda

“What am I going to do? I was born when the gods had already died.” Pablo Neruda “What am I going to do? I was born when the gods had already died.” A time when indifference rode the sky and everyone felt alone. My ancestral…

Nonet

Natural for me to fear lost life, this lightning flashing above me. Terrified in the green chair, rain dripping off shutters— blue St. Elmo’s fire. I am alright, but feeling jitters, God!  

True Self

My true self is an angel wrapped in joyous love. I catch a glimpse of her every now and then – she sings to me – and kisses me when I cry. She has carried me along many dark roads when no one else was…

Hour 12 – Downpour

Conversations, songs, us – steeped in rain, we lived each moment together, sure of our forever… but now our sweet duets I sing all alone arms have no one to embrace. I’m soaked alone.    

Nonet Poem/Hour 12

My brain creaks like an old rusted wheel On a red Radio flyer Spewing out nonsensical Poetry, my muse left Over an hour Ago, thrashing, Fighting for One more Poem

Hour Twelve, Nonet Prompt

Memento Mori My crush gifted me a book on trees and I placed within it a four leaf clover, another gift a different day, treasured talisman, there still all this time, flat memento to love lost.