Hour Fifteen – Text Prompt Write a poem about an experience, but from the perspective of another. For example you could write a poem about your wedding from the experience of your spouse, or you could write a poem about an argument with a stranger…

Too loud Too disruptive It wasn’t even my fault But I was sent into the hall anyway With my friend It was totally her fault You need friends like this in your life in elementary school in your neighborhood Someone who always ups the ante…

Hour Fifteen: Prompt:  When confronted by a stranger, and perhaps her perspective. I am ticked off! Why does she look so cool and comfortable in this heat on this delayed train! So, I picked on the cool composed one. I felt like it. Annoyance bloomed…

Yes a storm is brewing – yeah there’s already one knocking on the doors and wrapping on the window panes –   I’m sure you’ve heard the warnings but in every Pandora’s box was all about hope not the monsters and I’d like to think…

“I’ve never inspired someone before” I find that immensely hard to believe I believe that you may have fallen for A lie, I know that you have been deceived   Who told you you are insignificant? Who convinced you that you do not matter? I…

Hour Fourteen Ekphrastic Screw class. Love is more important. But I need cash. Constructing our lives together by looking into a construction site through a diamond cut hole? I watch buildings rise. What concrete? What mortar? What do I use as beams, without a foundation?…

I grew up in a house where art and laughter were rationed and metered out and never supposed to be shared together. Art was a privilege and laughter was a reward of the highest order. Growing up paint splattered was never a lesson I  thought…

The day I heard about the kids and where they were buried was the day my world stood still.   Anger flowed through me as I wanted to yell out to the world “What’s wrong with you!”   Sadness washed out the anger, as I…

I [redacted] tell you. What you [redacted] hear What you need [redacted] [Redacted} my dear I [redacted] tell you. Though [redacted] I fear The words [redacted]. Are just [redacted] my dear I [redacted] tell you. Hear [redacted] you must. They [redacted] say. [Redacted] words are…

Prompt Fourteen – Text Prompt Redacting is the act of censoring or obscuring part of a text. Sometimes it is done by the author themselves, and more often it is done by someone else. I want you to write a poem and then during or…