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…
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Hour 15 – Inspire love
“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…
“Rough Diamond Under Construction”
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?…
2023 Full Marathon: Hour 14
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…
Let’s Not Forget Them
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…
Meaning
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 14 – Redaction, not reduction
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…
Communication (Not at all)
Engifted with new technology, I wonder what’s left of our ideology, What remains from our imaginations, What hopes remains in our visions. When answers automatically pop-up without a question, Will these still be important? What are the mysteries remains? Is there humanity left…
M.M.I.W II
M.M.I.W Murdered, Missing Indigenous Women (2nd poem) Missing sisters, wives and Mothers are taken and Injured vicious While internally screaming in agaony.
Hour 14 – Secrets, a Haibun
The blinds are always left up by about 6 inches, the height of the dog’s heads They rush across the kitchen floor when they hear the beeping of the electric lock. The first to greet me at the door, sometimes the only one Laying on…