Do we Can we Drop our past Let it drop Like a cloak Silkenly Silently To the ground Shed our skin To be reborn cracking out Of our dry and dusty Layers Do we Can we Become new By ridding ourselves Of old.
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Hour #1
fingers weave yours and mine you press hard demanding punishing hurtful are these my fingers is this love
Hour 1 poem
WRITING A POEM ON POEM Today I must write a poem on poem Should I search on Google for inspiration? That is not a creative solution It will only lead to cheating and frustration What should my poem pattern be? Or should I first go…
Poem 1. First Responders, Lahaina, Maui, HI, 8/9/2023 “Diana Khoi Nguyen, Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)”
3am poem 1 First Responders, Lahaina, Maui, HI, 8/9/2023 “Diana Khoi Nguyen, Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)” I imagine they “trailed fingers down and against grains of” ash before the futility of rising left them empty armed the nameless strewn, powder on sand, around their boots…
Check Point – hour 1, prompt 1
A check point vacant this is how I start the game wordless and alone. – Sandra Johnson, 9/2/2023
Prompt for Hour One
For the third year in a row we are offering word and image prompts. The first prompt every hour will be text based (with occasional variations), and the second, if you scroll down, will be image based. You can choose either prompt or not use…
Poetry Marathon
Hello! I’m so excited to start getting ready for the marathon this weekend. I’m hoping this gives me the jumpstart I need to get back into writing poetry daily. Good luck fellow poets!
Hour Twenty Four ~ Wake Up ! ~
Write a poem that starts and ends with the same word. It can be short, but it has to be at least five lines long. If you can’t think of your own word to start and end with here are my suggestions: hope, stardust, cheese,…
Hour Twenty Three ~ A Different Wonderland ~
Text Prompt Pick the title of a book that you love, that title is now the title of the poem. That poem can be about the book directly, or indirectly, or it can use the title as a jumping off point, and be about something…
Hour Twenty Two ~ Tenderness Pouring from the Skies
Use the word Tenderness as this hour’s prompt. If Love and peace would prevail in this world full of beating hearts warm feelings filling the eyes with tenderness pouring from the skies who would ever think of committing a sin, not one nor two…