I love your lips and your hips, And the way it sways when you walk, I love how you speak, And your freak-mind bending ideas that keep me thinking, Where on earth you get them. I love your songs and your voice,…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Kaleidoscopic
Endless combinations of color and light. The most minor shift brings new design and unique beauty. Another shift and the pattern is gone and won’t ever be seen again.
Prompt for Hour Seventeen
Text prompt: Write a poem either titled or centred around a ‘Kaleidoscope’. Prompt contributed by Bhasha Dwivedi. Image Prompt: Photo…
Hour 16
Soften a brick of regular cream cheese not any of the non-fat or low-fat variety Place in a bowl and add the following three slices onions green one-third jar of Real Bacon, Accent salt, no fakin’ Worcestershire sauce form a ball like…
Music prompt (reverse haiku) – Hour 8, Prompt 8
Music prompts me to be chill but to write at will these last words I’d rather spill. – Sandra Johnson, 9-2-2023
6pm. Poem 16. Aloha Kakou (a letter poem prompt)
6pm. Poem 16. Aloha Kakou (a letter poem prompt) Aloha Kakou, It’s been 25 days since you had to go. We’ve found some of you who left from land, but none of you who went into the ocean and did not come out. I hope…
Flat Earth (2 nonets) – Hour 6, Prompt 6
Flat peeked down discovered layers below each one under, oh Earth, here I peer in fear flat discs of planets, far, near colors, and fiery warmth now sears closer planets, Venus and Mars, red Jupiter, Neptune, blue instead now, suddenly in my view cylindrical portals…
I’m One with the Shore – Hour Sixteen
I’m One with the Shore I am most at peace when I’m one with the shore Whether swimming or fishing Or there I find great release When I open the door To letting nature take the lead I’m one with the shore With a chair…
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!