Hour Twenty-One Text prompt: “Running” as first word and final word. Running a store was once an aspiration, not interested now. Running programs for kids was fun, maybe not now. Much in the world today is so unnatural. A dispute can become deadly, a misunderstanding…

Running on empty Pre-dawn hollowness A shell of my usual self My words brittle, stilted, halting My emotions devoid of feeling Free-floating angst and anger So great, yet so nebulous. I have no core. My thoughts echo in the vastness as they ricochet between scales…

African myths have many stories of birds loving rest time Loving the taste of worms and insects, and coming down for them. Eneke the bird has learnt to do the extraordinary “Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he…

Listening to the music you left behind is like trying to send letters to a stranger in a house that won’t be built for centuries and there is something to be said for the level of tenacity or pure dedication coursing through veins that won’t…

Futures Taken Away Children are gifts from the Divine Beings. They are here to help usher in new generations. But they were not always seen as the generations to come.   Even more so if you were not white, especially if you were a pagan….

Hour Twenty: Prompt: A Daily Ritual Centering myself via prayer, reading, meditation in different religious disciplines every day works well for me. Getting spiritually sound takes work people! I need all the help I can get. I vary the time of day, just so long…

Ring ting ting Hear ye Hear ye Rise up and shine Lead me let me wander And if that should fail I will bark in your face

Immersed in the slabs of the labs of forensic diviners  My poetry brain sits in some sick existential crisis While cannibals do their work with swift expertise I rob the thesaurus I wish I had more cheese I stare at the screen that’s looming in…

Cross barred Gordon reminded by the stroke of eleven Sweet briar Mary was waiting at the Ceilidh  But graves dug deep and marked rest in peace Prevent the dead from keeping their promises