Long ago in the mountains Near the Amazon The howling of wolves Could be heard It is said That the mountainside weeps Whenever a child is born For the pain of the laboring woman Can be felt by the very earth You can feel the…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Saved by Grace / prompt 13-9 pm
An unexpected happening He poured something into our drinks I Woke up screaming in agony She died for six minutes literally But worse would have been the alternative Had we not left so abruptly We would not have crashed into that tree God only knows…
Protected: Delicacy
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Hour #14 (Random Prompt taken from hour 2, 2022)
Inspired by leonard cohen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVvNpcX5HQ Burning Desire. Random Prompt Hour #14 You look my way my hair stands all over, smiling in my direction with your playful gaze strips me naked off my yearning. Baby I pine for you. Oh, we’re…
Opposites Attract – Hour Fourteen
You’re the butter to my jelly The ice cream to my cone The waffle to my syrup The lemon to my scone You’re the creamer to my coffee The ketchup to my fry The sausage to my pizza The corned beef to my rye You’re…
Hour fourteen: imagine a garden…
the exhausted mother shut her eyes her back was hurting she didn’t have it in her to tell her children the regular bedtime story just imagine, she said to them, a beautiful garden in front of your eyes with flowers in bright colours and anima-…
The worshipper (hour 14)
Ma told a tale of a devout worshipper of thunder falsely accused of stealing a goat sentenced to be imprisoned In court, he invoked his god Thunder struck His accusers died.
How I learned to listen to God
School was out It had to be Summer Back then the seasons were as defined The Chicago breeze wafted through pigtails like no other air I looked out the sunroom window at my friends playing in the park and had to get there My sister…
Hour Fourteen – Not Just Yet
Hour Fourteen – “tell me an old story (like a folktale from your culture, a fairy-tale you heard when you were young, or a story passed down in your family). You can give it your own twist as well.” Not Just Yet Yama Raj…
Hour 14 : woMAN
Raised by men Who taught me about womanhood their way Handed me a cape And let me run through the woods When I reached a house Tired and weary There was a man hiding Behind the mask of a woman I was not scared Thought…