Before Darkness … I once panicked I hesitate. No Stop! It’s time to regulate. The darkness, the dusk unveils a scared time, a time to be ushered in with an open mind. Darkness signals rest, a slowing down of sorts. Not just a time to…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Leaving out eight lines unprecedented
A woman . . . she had not known of LOVE before. Nor is she a romanticism. So she did not realized of a start of a marathon, when suddenly she was in the middle of it. Her heart went rock and about so abruptly,…
HOUR 4
MORNING ANGEL She rose from the darkness alone and cold, not knowing when her life would unfold. She prayed day and night. Laughed, rather than cry; as the street is her address and a cardboard box, her home. The smaller the box the more heat she will gain. …
King in the classroom
I came to work one day and I was excited about the piece I was going to teach. I was getting in the flow when In the middle of class A student raised his hand and asked, “Why we gotta learn about this?” We were…
Eternal Photon
Galactic collapse into supernova prismatic Inverse sunburst of gold-tinged purple Fades to velvet blackness save a single photon The last remnant of a galaxy Traversing Void in search of purpose In search of something other than empty space Travelling a trail through space unblazed Leaving…
#4 – Stephen’s Night (Write 10, add 10, subtract 8)
1- The bells rang free on Stephen’s night, yet, 2- after the snow fell, their sound was muted. 3- Attendees had long since escaped 4- the oaken, wooden pews of Saint Bethel 5- and returned to hearth and home, relieved. 6- The service had children,…
The Victim
Yesterday Or maybe the day before That email from you SHIFTED What is important to me To what is important to you. I can see it in your face! I can hear it in the words you use: Poweless; helpless; hopeless; disgraced. Unsolicited ranting Viewing…
My Dear One
Companion, dear one, always by my side Enthusiastic greetings on my return Escorting each piano student to the bench Relaxing under the piano to listen to their progress Praise and kisses every week, even with wrong notes Black hair on white carpet, head upon my…
Prompt 4
The Butterfly fell in love with the Pitcher Plant, Knew if she went near it, she will be eaten up. A small life span, was she ready to be a rebel? Leave the rose and sit on what every other insect was afraid of? Collected…
Lest We Forget
When the towers fell about our heads We wondered short of the cold and dead Who to blame and who to strike And so it came to pass When word and action carried The world aloft on arrows A trajectory of folly No weight or power…