Code Talkers II   A part of history that is important that needs to be shared numerous times.   Several tribes from the Southwest joined to form a platoon.   The military’s code was constantly being broken, decoded, Everyone was clueless.   One soldier from…

She found us within our pasts, memories enveloping us like cloaks. Our complicated yet precious web of love and experiences had created a tapestry in our hearts. In the stillness of the evening, she arrived to fulfill a longing, her eyes holding a story, seeing…

The boy who gave me cloth oragami hearts and engraved sheet music and silk black roses didn’t last though he put in all the right moves. He was here for the lesson that you should really appreciate what you’ve got while you have it.  …

People used to tell me to my face that I am a saint. In truth, I am a teacher. A teacher who learned early on to hide lavendar throughout the classroom to counteract farts and puberty sweat smells. Yes, a teacher who learned early on…

Prompt Thirteen – Text Prompt Describe your profession through a funny/humorous poem.   Aye, Write!   A Fighter? No no, a writer. I write. You what? I write, you know? Words? Pens? Paper? Well, I never. You write for a living? Not much of a…

Hour Thirteen Children will bounce off walls if their dance teacher tells them. (We don’t of course!) Adolescents won’t do but so much, they don’t want to get perspired in case “dreamy” happens to pass by. Some adults will sponsor funds for children’s tights rather…

Prompt 12 – Closet   The Closet   The closet is where his clothes hang his favourite dinosaur T-shirts his favourite shorts too. Stuffed teddys sit on top guarding it watching over him, from time to time he’ll check for monsters kids imaginations can run…

The sunlight is captured, perhaps long ago trapped in cells of hardwood harvested and deconstructed Only to end up a sheet of ads for groceries that I did not read   I twist the newspaper in my hands curling it into a thin snake  that…

Prompt for Hour Twelve – Text Prompt Closets are a big deal inside a house, but also metaphorically. One can be in the closet, or come out of it, for example, But they are also places of safety and joy for small children, or where…

                  Congratulations Half Marathoners! I am so happy that you have completed 12 poems in 12 hours! That is wonderful. Thank you for joining us for this intense events. In the past I have personally verified that…