Rescue dog from a shelter Foster dog (one, two or three) Pregnancy via your best friend California King bed Music First, go to a high kill animal shelter. Select one or two dogs using heart and intuition. Wait one year for dogs to decompress and…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Hour 2, Prompt 2
Recipe Poem contributed by Jennifer Faylor Choose something unrelated to food to create a recipe for––joy, a winter holiday, or an ideal lover, anything goes. Make a list of five “ingredients” for your poem. For example: Recipe for Averting Disaster 1. Optimism 2. Pine needles…
HER
Shoot her with your hurtful words Like a balloon, she will float up in the sky Cut her with your sharp actions Like a kite, she will, after a try, fly high Burn her with your hateful eyes Like a phoenix, she will rise and…
If I were famous – hour 1, prompt 1
If I were famous are you kidding me? this girl’s not ready eyes all on my mussed face any day, any time or place can’t even peek out to let the dog run about without prying eyes I’d need a disguise or a pseudonym to…
Mind the Children (For Plath)
I do not know her. Not in the sense “does anyone really know another person,” But in the sense “she lived a tormented life” “she was genius” “she eviscerated her soul, and turned it into poetry” “she was narcissistic” “she was severely depressed” “she tried…
Poetry Marathon Submission #1
Life’s Hero in a Pandemic, Poetry Submission #1, Ann WJ White My mother sits in her living room, polishing grave stones from afar. She paces back and forth on worn carpet, exercising her legs and mind. The photos she takes from the window highlight trees…
2020 Prompt One (1): Courageous Women [Hour 1]
COURAGEOUS WOMEN A woman of courage . . . To live is our grace! To have come here . . . In a patriarchal society; fighting hard to be matriarchal! It’s time … We knew! We know! Yet, someone over rode it — Commit the…
May Ellen Ezekiel
it is not every day one gets to meet a woman like you perhaps, it is the way heavens have blessed me to have known you perhaps, it is your charm and the things you did not do perhaps, your warmth is in what you…
H.1 – MAD DONNA
She’s all hair and brains selling hunger to sweet young minds Teasing, tempting hot young bodies, wet and thirsty on the dance floor. Notes pounding through her through them, a rhythm stretching between lips, syncing. Stretched and snipped, holding youth in a…
#1 – Well Kept Secret
They gawk and gaze and fawn over her, A famous face, never changing, They click a million pictures, fly miles to see her, And she just stares back, frozen in time. She has stories and odes written to her, There is no one who…