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…

in between “it’s in between,” they said when I asked where the centre is in this wandering in wonder but I don’t know if I know what that really means. is it the light or the dark? or neither or both? or all? all…in those…

By the time you reach the last page here what do you want to remember and who do you want to be because that’s the beauty of the Hummingbird Lounge – no one ever stays the same after a visit here. You are never alone…

You may know everything about your closet Unless it has a door in which case, you will find that your closet may hold anything. Anything Because You Don’t Know What’s Behind The Door Oh, you may think you know, but you don’t know For Sure…

Ekphrastic response to mandala by Vidya Shankar. Daiku’s follow a haiku structure with a Diane twist. I Each line memorized. Wrist, fingertips, ink-flowing I am just their tool. II More than symmetry Mind and body altering Release, learn and grow. III Drawn from inner thoughts….

The 11th hour   The 11th hour is coming near. Where will you be? As the Earth begins to crumble from the mass of unmarked graves.   The children who were once alive now wander the land crying for their parents who are no longer…