Hour Two

Untitled   Begging doesn’t work with me so tell your eyes to shut up   and your feet! singing their frustration stomp stomp stomp   Stop!   Listening to tears screaming down your cheeks is exhausting   How am I to know how your feel if…

Mama’s Proud Possession

I am my mom’s possession, the very dear valuable asset as she proclaims.   She’s such a darling and loves me to the moon and back.   She wishes to eulogise the world, but keeps her pack of aspiration to herself, thinking her dearie bundle…

EUPHORIA

A world of beauty and harmony no borders, no visa and you can enter anywhere in the world where there will be, no racist no skin color and no language barrier. A healthy planet earth and environmentally friendly, where humans are responsible enough to face…

Travel Card

In my wallet I still keep the travel card you gave me in 1973 which grants the bearer, me, immediate and instant passage to somewhere else This 2 by 3 inch rounded edge card stock, illuminated in black ink from a 00 rapidograph pen, I…

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Chemicals running Through my needing body Felt in my deep core

Yearning

Listening to Leonard Cohen sing “Take this Longing,” of course I go right on to “Dance Me to the End of Love,” then to “Hallelujah.” I could stay with him all day, and well into the night, but duty calls. Now he’s singing “There Ain’t…

Duo

It becomes another life in your head. You can live that life out in your head those times when your main life becomes dull. The best thing to do is not allow your main life to become dull, But of course, that is easier said…

Hour Two: Share

she offers me ideas for my poems. I nest my legs deeper into hers, slip my hand under her shirt, slide my fingers along curves until she stops talking.

Prompt #2 Cohenning

Marathoners are running the race And each ends last anyways Like they would have if they Ran against time without complain Poetry is no minute thing A clock ticks with options at hand Write poems or knead dough for a bun Write anyways For this…

yearning for you

poem #2 yearning for you we reached for the paper cup at the same time our hands slightly brushing against each other nicely apologizing I noticed your full smile right away smooth brown skin and full lips and I smiled too then several minutes later…