How will you reach your demise? When the sun scorches the skies. Or when one cannot touch his thighs. Will we succumb to the unrest?To the distress? You are linked to the world near and far, yet you make us appear distant and overly attached. Unattached…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Prompt 18, Hour 18
Write a narrative poem set during a holiday. It could be a poem based on your own lived experience or it could be an imagined event. A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story, but the story does not have to be compete,…
Prompt 17 ~ Post #17 ~ Little Red Box
We’d stand in this red metal box to make a simple phone call. No matter the time or the season even freezing our all and all. And if our love did not answer we parted gloomy and blue. For all, we wanted to tell…
Hour 17; Prompt 17: The Art of the Mix Tape
John Cusack’s film, Hi-Fidelity, is perhaps one of the best of his films It centered on music and the way his character utilized it To remember To collate To help navigate life When I was younger The mix tape and its creation Was both art…
CD vs Vinyl – hour 17, prompt 17
CD you see it screams, why me? soon to be defunct, like analog TV maybe soon, repurposed as furniture, refurbished something shiny, maybe jewelry is what may become of me you see, my older cousin vinyl is resurrecting, no longer idle because of new technology diamond…
High Tech
I am the forerunner Without me, Your songs are not portable Your music is incomplete Your world is tune deaf I am the one battling for existence Without me You cannot remember old songs You cannot dance to your favourite tunes Your world is dead…
Old Photos
Yikes! How can I make my family photo albums? I thought it would be easy. Take a picture and download, edit, print. Easy. Then, I found Undeveloped film Negatives CD’s Kingston sticks Now what? What do I do now? If you can help me with…
Tick Tock
hands advance gently just a minute at a time so few understand
Prompt 17: Oh, Brother Word Processor
The Brother Word Processor was my friend my first year out of college. It was a small beast that sat on a chair in the corner of my room when not in use, which was seldom. It printed, if not the first play I wrote,…
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT
Hour 17 (Marathon Prompt – write about an obsolete or soon to be obsolete form of technology) EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT Ink on paper soon could be Obsolete technology Daily news in paper form May soon no longer be the norm …