i am ready to test the limits- to push past all my fears and stretch my hand feeling every muscle strain – being in the spur of a moment and reaching for whatever mystery awaits. i am ready to be in the moment on top of…

Prayerful poet — Hopeful job applicant too. I have ideas that haven’t been tried Substitute teaching earns paycheck and moments worthy of writing down.   Fate tries to convince me, quit waiting for others, write those stories, write those poems, Submit! Be daring! spend that time on the keys! Write!  …

Intro to challenge How many masterpieces? Maybe?  GO FOR IT!

Just spent a lovely day at New Jersey Renaissance Faire and am completely exhausted. Hopefully, next Saturday won’t be as tiring.

Late at night in desert gloom, the storm breaks. There is no such thing as peace when Nature rains down her passionate kiss to this dry earth. The slithery serpent serpentines to his den, the scorpion clawing at raindrops, vacantly staring at the heavens with…

  The 2014 Poetry Marathon is over! If you just completed the Marathon – Congratulations! We are impressed. You just wrote a lot of poems. An impressive and exhausting number. Hopefully you can give yourself a bonus today (like a dozen naps, or a really…

I was thinking if him today and it made me smile. That ear to ear kind that makes your eyes squint and your cheeks rise. I could hear his voice saying my name in a loving tone. His beautiful imperfections I had gotten used to…

Usually my words come from motivation not force I feel the fatigue of this challenge yet I push through I lost my breath long ago but I jog my pace slowed as I needed to catch my breath. I will get my second wind in…

Congratulations Half Marathoners you have completed your task! 12 poems in 12 hours is no easy feat. If for some reason you feel the urge to continue on, you can join the full marathoners for the next 12 hours. If not, relax and reward yourself…

I want to be able to wrap my arms around you and cover you in kisses but in the back of my mind I wonder do you deserve them? Your demeanor tells me you don’t your hiding something deep within that would cause me to…