Summer colors mixed with winter lights swirling apexmesmerizing vortex of mirrors held to the child’s eye as he slowly turns it so the colors fold themselves in on unending varieties of patterns of wonderment.
Category: Official Marathon Announcement
2023 Full Marathon: Hour 16
Remember when we would go to the nursing home and glue puzzles together and trade books worn out and weighed down with the annotations of literal generations – we painted sunflowers and lilies for each room with a little old lady lacking family or support. We…
“Whether Weather Report”
Hour Sixteen They mentioned a tornado arriving home soon, and the (approximate) areas affected. The tornado didn’t have a direct route, propelling so many establishments and families lives sacrificing and disrupted. Rebuilding is a must. So, when your grades arrived, like a sacrifice through a…
Prompt Sixteen – Come, visit me please
Prompt Sixteen – Text Prompt Write a poem that is pretending to be something else, a set of instructions, a recipe, a letter, a news report, etc. Come, visit me please Dear Dad, Hope you’re well, but you know, I have a bone…
For Beginners
Shuffle ball Shuffle ball Ball change Touch Heel step Step heel Heel step Three point turn Single buffalo With the beat Ready? Go!
Mending Instructions
1. Thread kindness through the needle of your apology and let the needle pierce beyond the excuses and half truths. 2. Pull the thread toward a place of grace, humility, and the recognition that even when you are wrong, you are loved. That even when…
Barista Magic – a haiku
Morning coffee smile. Foam milk art inspires. Barista magic.
Prompt Fifteen – Down Memory Lane
Hour Fifteen – Text Prompt Write a poem about an experience, but from the perspective of another. For example you could write a poem about your wedding from the experience of your spouse, or you could write a poem about an argument with a stranger…
Too Much
Too loud Too disruptive It wasn’t even my fault But I was sent into the hall anyway With my friend It was totally her fault You need friends like this in your life in elementary school in your neighborhood Someone who always ups the ante…
“Looks Can Be, Well..”
Hour Fifteen: Prompt: When confronted by a stranger, and perhaps her perspective. I am ticked off! Why does she look so cool and comfortable in this heat on this delayed train! So, I picked on the cool composed one. I felt like it. Annoyance bloomed…