Write a poem to go with one of the following five titles. Möbius Strip The Night is For Sleeping Blue Clouds Station At the Diner
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Letter Written From the Edge of Delirium
Dear 1986 Self, I was once told I had a bright future, But I never bought the shades or learned to read the map, so losing my way has been the least of my worries. Though your effort noble, the dissipation of faith in (of…
Not an ordinary life
Dear you, I am you, I am your failure, don’t look around but look at me. Look at your failure Because you always run away whenever you see me You rant at so little time, at so little opportunities, at your misfortune, at your loveless life. …
#21 – Dear Friend (Letter to Someone)
Good evening, dear friend. Had a Blue jay come and yatter to me tonight. Odd because there haven’t been many Blue Jays around here, in general, and none recently. And, it was dusk, almost evening, which is a stranger time for its visit. Kept drawing…
hour thirteen
the empty place in the armchair everytime I drink my coffee the missing minutes of our talk in the morning the silence in your room nobody turning on the laptop at midnight so many white nights after you are gone my face has gone pale…
A Note for the Road
Dear Loves, In the most critical year of your life, a few defining things will happen. Someone or something will be born and die. Yes, both will happen – a birth and a death. A great love will be lost and one will be…
hour twelve
the moon looks into the lake checking something I also check in a ladies’ room at parties a morning glory climbs the fence in a panic someone has a spare tire to give me
hour eleven
You told me you were a traveller alone on your road from time to time from gig to gig you’d make new friends then lose them then make others I wished I coul accompany you but I had some other life held back by it…
Urgent Notice From The Brain
Dear Cody, I regret to inform you that despite your best efforts to maintain and nourish your rational thinking capacities, we in the brain department have decided our time here would be better spent exploring the more fluid and chaotic morass of the subconscious, as…
My Letter to You – Prompt Twenty-one
Dear Love, I wonder how you got that scar? And why you are so very far. Do you ever think of me, my love? I know I think of you, my knight. You invade my thoughts during the day, And haunt my dreams in the…