On Saturday mornings my son and I feed over two hundred hot meals to neighbors in need we plan and we prep and we count all the lunches we are truly the ones blessed
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Prompt Twenty – Dugga Dugga
Hour Twenty – Text Prompt: Write a poem about a routine or ritual that is part of your life. It can be something like making coffee every morning, or something like attending religious services once a week. Dugga Dugga Not sure how or…
10pm. Poem 20 Mornings with Lucy
10pm. Poem 20 Mornings with Lucy She comes to me at first alarm laying her head on my breast settling in tummy to tummy She makes biscuits and closes her eyes to heal me with her rhythmic purr. She is my morning. She is the…
Routine
Lately, I sit down to write, but cry instead. Usually, I let Roy out in the backyard Before breakfast and his early morning walk Sometimes, He bites me and I say he’s only a puppy. Almost always, I sleep deeply and wake refreshed. Once in…
Water Meditation
Each night between dusk and sundown I pause to water the garden. There is nothing more important in that moment. I pay attention as I go. With attention, I notice and appreciate the flow of water growth and change new buds, full blossoms, and scattered…
Ratatouille (a nonet) – Hour 16, prompt 16
Sliced tomatoes, zucchini, squash, we in circles, patterns numbered three red, yellow, green, bake and boil drizzled with olive oil olive, garlic, see finish thee a treat Oui! – Sandra Johnson, 9-3-2023
Prompt for Hour Twenty
Text Prompt: Write a poem about a routine or ritual that is part of your life. It can be something like making coffee every morning, or something like attending religious services once a week. Image Prompt: …
Poetry room – Hour 19, Prompt 19
The room is a blur my thoughts are a-stir the lizards are monsters their cages mid-whir. Coffee, poetry mix doing lots of cool tricks words jumping off pages into canine cages. The dogs are loose, too this place is a zoo my dwarf…
Hour 18 prompt
LET’S APPRECIATE BEAUTIFUL YET DIFFERENT CREATIONS OF GOD In the hallways of your school, You may see a child who seems different She may be the girl who always sits alone Or the boy who never talks to anyone Or a child who just…
Hour 17 prompt
EDUCATION Transfer of knowledge happens even in birds and bees Mother bird teaches the child how to fly from the trees The lion teaches the cub how to hunt Even pigs teach their piglets how to grunt Knowledge sharing is known as education This happens…