Maybe love don’t care as much as I do, Can two walk together unless they agree? If I and love are meant to walk different path, how long shall I stress myself to convince her to keep my company.

Hour Nine – Look in your cupboards and find a food that brings up a childhood memory, and the memory is your prompt   Beetnoon   Rummaging in my kitchen shelf for some ground black pepper to sprinkle over my omelette I upset the carefully…

When I’m five or six we used to run and play, Just running and running and some with mud clay. Our “Nanay”(Mother) call us back to eat, Our familiar food, Banana Cue in a Stick. We laugh and talk and joke around, Good old days,…

I searched in my cupboard for a food that brought up a childhood memory but nothing worked. I’m descended from a long line of omnivores. I’m a boomer whose mom cooked with canned foods and processed flours, every kind of fat, and she baked a…

Ma would made me sit in my fav chair while she fed me flaked corn has the magic to lift me higher like an elixir till now maybe it is in the taste or paste that accompanies the flakes down always a delight night and…

A slice of bread, And white at that Covered in condensed milk That was our snack And sometimes that Was dinner too Single mother of four Just trying to make do Oh how I miss Those days of old Amidst the struggle We didn’t fold…

House, alone on a snow-swept plain. No foundation. You know the wind chills the floor. No neighbors. I hope there are books, authors, and characters with whom to converse, and Ideas to mull. No garden. Could a vegan live here? Surely, there’s a dog. I…

In the darkness Twinkling stars, the strawberry moon Speeding meteors In the light Bright sunshine, wispy clouds Flying birds And yet, the world is but a shadowed gray   Prompt 10 from the 2019 Poetry Marathon – Hour 8

I once had a love, He made me weak He made me nimble He made me feel like the loud cymbal His touch made me tremble His eyes made me shake I often wondered if I was awake Surely, he was the one for me…

lentils and rice Slow-cooked Yellow from turmeric Fragrant with spices Hot, steaming Delicious Dip into memory and take a large helping of khichadi