Ekphrastic using Tim Foster photograph. When a body leaves a shine wherever it’s been Can’t help but wonder, good creature or creator of Original sin. The leaves are not wilting, the fronds look bright green Yet one can’t help but wonder, are you a magician or…

It’s said his lips are stained With beet juice he drinks every morning So smart in his jacket and tie The heartthrob of his own imagination In the heart and heads  Of so many lies a tremor Fear of his selfish devastation Turn on the…

Prompt eleven – Text Prompt “Extraordinary in Ordinary”- pick an ordinary object and make it extraordinary. You can do it by giving it some special attributes or a different background and story.   The Handkerchief   Almost redundant these days This humble square of cotton…

Prompt 10 – What is love   What is Love   Well, love hurts, some people can’t help falling in love, they make it their love story, at the end of the day all you need is love, once I was crazy in love, after…

Prompt 9 – Five Words (Jacket, Bucket, tremor, elbow, Lightbulb)   True Story   Along he came with a high vis jacket on, then came another and another begging the question, how many men does it take to change a lightbulb? Arms on the hips,…

    A story from old grandma as I reminisce, A hidden path across the lake drawn my eye, She said, beyond the bushes there you’ll see. An old forgotten mystery. A runaway princess was last seen.   Hidden behind a magic spell. Never heard,…

I’ve never been much for tea parties much to the chagrin of friends. But one and only one time, a tea pot saved my skin. After a long and dreary winter, my depression was quite severe I was given a plain tea pot made of…

  Hour Ten: Ekphrastic using photo from Andrew Shaughnessy My hoofs are killing me, they need a good soak. My ribs show, so that tells you. I’m not good/ready for slaughter. Love this country though. Fresh air, beautiful sky, clear cool streams to quench my thirst, sunshine…

Beyond Family   Family is now a generic term. Family is a wide-open umbrella. Blood or not blood. This is how most of the world sees family.   The indigenous tribes see family everywhere. That is why we call the Earth, Mother.   A mother…

Hour 10: Away with the butterflies   We used to go to the art gallery with the gorgeous garden and all the famous to us statues to watch the frogs, listen to the birds, and cover ourselves in sharpie poetry –   We used to…