Gentle yearning for something more, Delicate dissecting of warm light, Hopes manifest seeing hopeless surroundings, Filtering untamed tempers and knowing love stands behind, Interacting only with that love, shadows searing from light, Attention intention and prayerful humbleness Toddler thrashing seen no matter how old, Like…

Why would you celebrate not having to do things? This sounds like a jamboree anthem for a benefits nation, A Nanny state of higher consciousness, A cult of antipathy. Why would you celebrate losing the capacity to do things? Is this a lullaby into passivity?…

Seismic crafted cathedrals sustained in the wild, Affections cultivated ring tin thin empty, Rock heat baked timeless preservation, Her wallflower’s fluctuating vinette, Floral mask betraying brittle surface, Three times an outsider standing by, Dried up cracks strange adorning what nature made, Slithering survival flashing firefly…

By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 8am Australian EST Prompt 10: Please listen to Moonshadow by Cat Stevens (Here’s the handy Youtube link) and then write a poem as soon as the song ends. __________________________________________________ {Infinite Universe} I was born searching for my star…

By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 7am Australian EST Prompt 9: Write a poem containing at least five of the following ten words. If you want it can include all ten words. If this prompt seems at all familiar, it is probably because we…

LETHARGY                              (response to hour 9 prompt)   A strange lethargy overcomes me. Welcome to the world of Zoom teaching.   The heat is making the treeline shimmer. I can barely see the distant cottage on my laptop’s screen.   A blue surgical mask is in…

It’s time for our family get-away not a cottage but a  week up in Boyne. A resort here in upper Michigan far away from the chaos and noise.   Pack the car with food, masks, and goodies and a bottle of iced coffee for me….

A reliance heavily on self without the unwanted influence of others. Careful with whom is granted access to her life. Find her in the bookstore corner quietly skimming the markdowns. See her in the grocery store shopping while listening to 90’s music through her air…

Our bus zooms past treeline highways as we travel to the annual camp-meeting I am always looking forward to the camp-meeting It is in the cool, dry breeze and the happy faces It is in the strange people who peopled the places There is no…

PITY   The heat of midday faded as the brilliant summer sun settled below the tree line.   Strange seemed the firefly who earlier zoomed about the cottage now looking lethargic and spent.   Had he succumbed from the heat of the day or did…