Beware the lions roar, it’s gnashing teeth The likes of something never before seen It’s jaws protrude from mandibles so large Your head would be the size Of a jaw breaker in real life. But let us not think morbidly, think positively Don’t lose your…

Hour 8 – Journey   I would walk to the end of the world with you I don’t know where it starts or where it ends.   Any time of day or night, I’d be ready even if we got stuck along the way all…

Text Prompt “Look in your cupboards and find a food that brings up a childhood memory, and the memory is your prompt” – contributed by Deborah Dalton Image Prompt Photo by Dylan Shaw on Unsplash

I will cry for my mother till my eyes grow sore My father’s sister moved in the day after– she says her name is “second mummy”   Her body was only buried hours ago But her replacement sits here trying to fit into her shoes…

Hello my old friend It has been forty years Man that will bring you to tears How long has it been since we talked Or even long, together walked I miss you Our friendship was true How has life, you, treated? Are you seated? I…

You cut the garlic in the kitchen prepping dinner for bean curd and spinach. Tofu pressed and ready to lightly fry to a toasty brown crispness, a contrast to the soft spinach and inner curd. They said half a clove of garlic you call to…

Who am I when I’m at home alone? Quieter, perhaps, unless I sing, find rhythms on my drums, take a break at my piano. I don’t talk as much. The dogs don’t respond. I write things down instead. I’ll read my poems and essays to…

(Response to Gigan challenge)   Summer swelters beyond my exhausted window hot inside air pulled outside where it belongs.   I’m comfortable here at my computer – a cool cat writing poetry, sporting a beret back in a 1950s café.   When I was nine…

1 Nancy is such a day-dreamer. 2 and possibly a teacher and peacemaker.   3 She once came to school late, and instead of hurrying, 4 her sixth grade teacher  — and classmates — watched as she stopped 5 in the park across the street…

Every night I’m being seduced away by your smooth beautiful face , and caressing it in my hands is my only heart desire. Holding you when everywhere is silent I always crave for, for touching you gives me utmost joy. I’ve tried holding something else…