As I walk through life’s journey Through the Great Divide. Alone I will go down that wooded path that is supplied. Waters be still Mountains run High A beautiful Journey through this life called The Great Divide Mountains to climb rough areas to go but…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Twilight Silence
Against the inky canopy, stars flicker as if winking at an unseen moon Flicker in their death throes across the vast expanse of time One final burst of light to greet the coming dark One final farewell before black engulfs the sky Their dying light…
Hour 8 -Pantoum-Bloodshed in our Streets
Why every summer is there is bloodshed in the streets? We have to go on to our parties, weddings, and vacations. Another birthday to celebrate, as we hug our families extra tight. Just another day in the middle east, east coast, west coast fight. …
For Love
Lying awake late into the night I contemplate this day in my life Tremendous low ebb, fantastic heights Blending the lines between joy and strife. My thoughts rush on in free flight This way and that, what can I reason? Then the hint of nature’s…
A Poet’s Nightmares
Snoring loud mouth of crumbly words, In a strange and twisted grammar and jagged phrases. With a slime letters weaved with saluva and drooling in a gelatinous stanza. Poets tossed and turned a Haiku into Tanka and in deep slumbered, Drowned in a free flowing…
A Letter to You
I hope that it will be The best day of your life. That I prepare the best I can, Though I don’t always get it right. That I will strive to do all I need to do, To shape a better world for you, One…
Forgiveness…
Mewling wicked soul, echoing from black,white and brown race Puking bad words from their mouth and Stinging on kindred spirit. Denouncing illegal, immoral acts and publicly criticizing skin colors are blameworthy. Proclaiming religious beliefs are a curse,that causes human hostile. Homosexuality, transgenders or bisexual are…
Poem 12: Moon Lake
Moon lake, Wider than memories, I cross you in dreams. Lazy waves carve moon beams into scalloped blades that cleave meat from bone and stitch words into stories. Over the lake, And far above the moon, A nighttime sky, silent and black, Arcs in a…
#12 – The Girl of ’92 (Word List 8 of 8 used)
I knew i liked her from the start eighth grade glory at the lake … and girls she was tall and lanky, just like me no fat to spare and ribs like the grill of a jeep with two little headlights adjoining her breastbone her…
A Poet’s Nightmares
Snoring loud mouth of crumbly words, In a strange and twisted grammar and jagged phrases of Slime letters, weaved with saliva and drooling in a gelatinous stanza. Poets tossed and turned a Haiku into Tanka, in deep slumbered, Drowned in a free flowing Sonata. In…