Prompt Ten – Text Prompt The first three words of your title should be “what is love”. That can be your whole title, in and of itself, probably followed by a question mark, or you can add more context onto the title before proceeding to the…

I haven’t any answers You haven’t any clues The question is often asked When something doesn’t ring true Often confused with feelings and contradicting thoughtless acts the paths of knowing and doing may not always tract. Because love is not a gift, given in the…

M.M.I.W (Murdered, missing indigenous women)   Many mothers Missing the lives of their Infant children growing up, Weeping families demanding justice.

We have the opportunity to be better than our forefathers Having so few exposures to people of different cultures Isn’t an excuse To be a piece of shit Evolve beyond what your parents have taught you   Society here in the United States was organized …

Strict Parents   As I reminisce about my childhood. I can’t help but hear the phrases: “Don’t do that! That’s not what I taught you.”   “Don’t go to dances.” One phrase I would hear when the school dances came and went.   I would…

Hour 9: Nicknames Outlive You   It’s true you know – if you’re not careful the nicknames out live you the art changes the future   & the memories morph into beings of thier own with thoughts, beating hearts   &   an appetite for…

The smell of cinnamon takes me back to the baking day we had before you left. I climb atop an overturned 5-gallon bucket to reach the top shelf in the carport and the crate that holds your belongings. Tremors visit my hands as I don…

  The Cabin’s lightbulb flicker on and off, On a Friday night once more. Its quite cold for an early September, A perfect time for a beet. One thing I can remember. Is my full bucket blessed in harvest, With my red jacket on, Across…

Prompt for Hour Nine Text Prompt: Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so. Beet, jacket, tremor, bayou, elbow, lightbulb, cinnamon, bucket, elk, carport…

Letters have power. Did you know? Just by changing a letter or two, you can change the world. Change “beet” to “beef” and you change a vegetable into a meat. Change “jacket” to “jackel” and you change something that can protect you into something that…