The song rings out, a sweet melody of violence laced with the unforgiving butchery. Steel whistling throughout out the rank ally way air, shots matching the butchery.   Her strike pure, my sight obscured, as crimson smog clouds the atmosphere. For I, the audience of…

Hour Eight – Gigans must be 16 lines in length with seven stanzas (each stanza is separated by a line break). It goes couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), couplet, couplet, couplet, tercet, couplet. The first line is also the eleventh line, line six is…

Cooking seafood is a treat Making Lobster sweet Dropping sauce Sipping tequila in a kitchen discrete. copyright(c)2022 Roxann Lawrence

For this one, a friend of mine specifically requested a poem about ramen – so here we go, but since I just wrote a recipe poem for 7 – I’ll have to do something different for 8.   Poem 8: An ode to Ramen: This…

file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/storytelling%20pic_files/23843396_1116965558406503_8867288065344593881_n(1).jpg   Storytelling, captures her attention. She loved hearing about a fellow taking a wonderful three country vacation and seeing an old telephone and a sign in three languages in a corner of each church in each country: “Call Heaven, five minutes, and (the cost)”…

Okay, it only took like forever, but I think I’ve hit my stride! How great is that? Alrighty, so hour 7 “my foolproof recipe for mending a broken heart” From the teal blue Burn after Reading prompt journal. Which is great because I was super…

Hour 7 – Pinky Promise!   People say pinky promises are childish I say does the inner child ever leave? Nothing is ever worth breaking it Know I’m a man of my word You have my word   Pictured as evidence Rosie sends hers too…

The lights are swirling Round and round inside my head The thoughts and darkness Up my once retired head Sorting through the garbage All the rubbish left behind better poetry writing Is the best thing for me Today I’ve been feeling sightly unlike myself Some…

Hour Seven – Look on your phone and find the 10th non selfie picture and use that as your prompt.   The Graduate   Shiny sturdy ravens all They stride into the ancient hall and take their designated places after tentatively, anxiously scanning faces at…

Love bench What a lovely summer evening We took our usual walk up the hill round the pub At the corner The roundabout around on the way to the farm The park bench awaits us each time we walk past On this evening our 10th…