Concerning expression What cannot be expressed by taboo cannot be expressed by people in crisp, white suburban houses. What else cannot be expressed is like that which animals and babies cannot express. What exists in ticket lines and ATM transfers. Drug stores and allergy medicine….
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Roots
Whether you desire it or concede it You can’t love it but life needs it I only seek it so I can give Or do I seek it for the life I live I love life, so I must have it to exist My heart…
Everlasting
You’re so far away I stare at the dark above– Stars reassure me When night envelops I remember promises– Everlasting love Lives on in night skies If one light shines above–you Said our souls were one Diane Morinich
Hour 2 Prompt – How Shall I Tell You
holding my hand he asked me to go how shall I tell him a piece of my heart lives in you I still remember the day we met for the first time in this cloudless sky you appeared as the full moon I might leave…
geraniums
the geraniums have been listening to Leonard Cohen everyday; I tried to introduce them to Billy Joel but they were not interested in more than a broken Hallelujah so we all sit in the evening sipping sunsets from our wine glasses longing for something we…
Prompt for Hour Two
How do we share yearnings when we cannot speak of them? For additional context and inspiration you can listen to Leonard Cohen’s song “Take this Longing”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVvNpcX5HQ&feature=youtu.be Prompt contributed by Ramona Elke
Before the End
He is an earthy fool of morning— makes the uphill trek of five leagues and gathers anemones. He is a fiery child of dusk— arrives in the quietness beyond fatigue and knocks at the door. She is a flighty girl of night— wears…
Elemental Unity
Each feeling its power The knew that they could win alone For nothing surpassed the need for a solid foundation Earth was proud to be the support of all creation But when is as stagnant, cold, or thirst for life The absence of everyone only…
Melted and moulded
Like a phoenix the fire burnt me With the winds my ash prevailed, Mixed with water they painted their heads with my ash while going for a war, The war which is supposed to be fought on the wax grounds, Wax will flow from the…
HER SMILE
Her smile Takes me on a stride Up the hill Where the sun shines bright And the wind blows, soft, caressing her cheeks. She loves to dance In the first rain And the many after that For, she can’t get enough Of the smell…