Secret chimes spill voice, Ringing their cadence and end, A vow that is final.

Hour Four:  Prompt: Used both text and photo together. Icy cold we walk to the chapel. Death, tomb or our warming? Remember how to grow vines, bloom flowers, feel greenery underfoot? Visitors and guest gaze from their tombs. We hold hands giving new heat. They…

Prompt 4 – Haiku   One day maybe one day, for now, not yet although stranger things happen   love can be true, love can also be blind, if it comes, I’ll be ready   Some have big days, some Have smaller integrate days. Yes,…

Prompt 3 – Image   Perception We can look at the same picture, I might see differently from you, It’s what makes the world go round, But hey that’s okay.   There’s no right or wrong, we can agree, we can disagree, we can agree…

Prompt 2 – In 10 Years   In 10 years   I’m 30, in ten years’ time I’ll be 40 I wonder what it’s like to be 40? 40 is the new 30 or so they say, 10 years is a long time, a decade…

Hunger… Nourishment found, Her life’s sanguine essence, Accepted offer, tithe gifted, Teeth fed.  

Hour 4: Who we could be – I knew i wanted this to be a generic poem about suicide and mental health and I think there’s definitely room to spiff it up, but I took time to get food and feed animals and stretch and…

  A hard-edge helium balloon, Home alone, flying soon. Independent at eighteen, A no crown queen. I’m at the precipice, Tolerable by the wind. A shriek panic, A ponder mistake.   I love being a lone spirit, But that does not mean I hate love….

Text prompt: Nancy Anne Smith suggested this subject for a prompt we do every year. Your challenge is to write a poem about the topic of marriage, without ever using the word marriage, and while also ideally avoiding the words spouse, husband, and wife.  …

It’s more than a day, it’s a lifetime. A commitment to have and to hold. More than a dream, this is real, babe. And it’s been said fortune favors the bold. More than a promise worth keeping, it’s deep trust that’s more precious than gold….