Prompt 5: image haikus

Light galaxy breaks Sparkling stillness of the lake Come drift past the gap   Octagons of dry Repelling cold from the sky Raise your colors high   Singed through the bark Love exposed striations Sap seeps. Heart revealed

Hour 4, prompt 4 Epistolary

Dear Cotton Candy Princess, Who knew that with shaking hands, you’d kill your captors, no prince needed. Who knew that with trembling eyes, you’d challenge your suitors to listen, understand, trust. Do you have to answer to each other for every dragon slayed? every witch…

Hour 4 – Letter Poem – To my sister after mom

Hour 4 Prompt Letter For my sister   we seemed easier in the days before chaos and cancer and changing into superheroes when all we needed to be was weak and open to each other so we could lean into each other while we leaned…

Hardened Heart

The crust of the Earth holds many secrets Petrified in rock and wood. Therein is the shape of a heart seared through layers of sandstone. Did erosion cause this art? Or did some ancient lover carve his love into stone? Then again, does it really…

Picture This – My Officer, My Son

I last posed with you for a picture at the airport 177 moon sleeps ago. I had to ask for the picture, but there we are in our winter coats, time escaping too fast my heart racing below the layers because for the first time…

A Fallen leaf

Leaves fall like broken joy, from her beloved tree. Pain is felt by both the dying leaf,falling free and lonely tree.

Body

  BODY ________________________ Collection of bones and sinew Star stuff and muscle memory Billions of breaths forgotten Heaved and sighed without witness As my twin lungs carry me Some etch on the panes of memory Leave the silvered shadow of their image For sunlight to…

And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea

And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea Eves come no longer to pick up Sweetness of flowers and fruits Fondness of streams and dreams Scent of forest is long gone Maddening patches of soil in turmoil Homes and domes are razed And the gardener likes…

Body

Not enoughToo much A journey of delight my hands traversePlains and valleysCurves and edges A shame spiral Button strainedBreathe in denialTill I spill out Im sorry I should never have tried to make you fitIts just that they told meThat you were unfitAny bigger and…

The Revolt Poet – Spot the Difference.

Powerful & Continuing Nationalism: I think it is safe to say, without expansion, that’s still present in both of them. Disdain for Recognition of Human Rights: Is that not why advocates for peace and left wingers are deliberately mischaracterised, as terrorist sympathisers? Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats…