Running, running Running from responses Running from opinions Running in space Finding quiet Doesn’t stop the ringing The anticipation of noise The heart beats faster Knowing someone is near Voicing concern Speaking fear Planting the seed To destroy my peace
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Funeral Songs
I’m already tired of funeral songs Only a few decades under my belt and yet I feel like I’ve seen too many funerals A few for the old but too many for the young and those near to me I wish I could hold tight…
Prompt Eight – The African Sky
Prompt 8 = Image The African Sky Lying flat on our backs under the Milky Way Half asleep, I hear you say, ‘Can anything be vaster than this sky?’ We looked up together, hands clasped tight. At the open, silken, endless, night Where…
Grief
When I look up, I know you are here, there, and everywhere I see you In the silence of the dark night, In the light of the stars In the shape of the moon In the spark of the fire In the wave of the…
Road Conversation
The road clicks a sticatto beat the tires hum along with the flow I hear you speak now words measured and succinct But no one can hear you No one understands you Your voice carries a melody that lifts and carries in the breeze. You…
Milky Ways of Diamond Dust
Milky ways of diamond dust Across a desert sky Flames that dance within the night And carry wishes high Upon the winds, up to the stars Where the gods can hear Smoke rings dancing in the dark Before they disappear Some say magick isn’t real…
10am Poem 8. Poem for Us (written while listening to Max Richter, On the Nature of Daylight)
10am hour 8 poem 8 Poem for Us (written while listening to Max Richter, On the Nature of Daylight) You come to me slightly. You are so broken and she is so broken and they are so broken. We are all so broken. Ancient china…
Crime seen (5 hour)
How a headless man arrived at a compound of a palace was a puzzle the inspector had on its plate associates pinned the headless figure on his shoulders. He had an altercation with the dead ahead of the deed. The police sealed the crime…
The Flame to Your Stars – Hour Eight
The Flame to Your Stars Out in the desert, a sky filled with stars I sit in the darkness, a fire burns afar I shine light upon it and realize the view The stars, the flame, the light – all for you I think…
“Astrophile”
If there is a miracle that I know, Is the fact that the mystery of the universe is yet to be resolved. Questions keep knocking on our door, And every answer leads to more. The vastness of the universe expands beyond our imagination. There…