After dark, I stroll Stretching boneless mountains roll under deflated clouds and pallid stars I teetered, whirled far when a speeding car whizzed by me, light trailing the last blues of dusk fading spirits whisper beside me tickle blindingly just a branch of spruce then…
Category: Poetry Prompt Responses
Walking at Night
Walking at night without a sound, Stepping so lightly Over the cool ground. What do I see looking up at me? Two little peepers Darting faster than I could see. Around the corner I go Until up under my nose A firefly buzzed setting it…
Hour 19 – If My Body Were a Game of Operation
If My Body Were a Game of Operation Racing Thoughts – Remove the race car from my mind and give a motherfucker a rest Too-Small Skull – Try and grasp the bone and force it through a passage that is designed for you…
The Pier – Hour Twenty
The Pier I spent many a year catching fish by the buckets Upon the Gulf of Mexico’s shoreline From sand trout to sharks and gafftop to eel My childhood grew wildly there It kept me from trouble, away from that crowd Special bonding time for…
#20-A Walk under the Moon
Perks of being of the female gender, So many, it addles my brain. Not being able to take a walk at night, Just one of the very many. Do everything in our power, To make sure we don’t feel powerless, But powerful, oh I haven’t…
20. Nights in Paukukalo
Before the blast and takings we had a little place in Paukukalo. It was hotter indoors there less breezeway but so close the chatter of cartwheeling shorestones told all their secrets so close I could walk down on sleepless…
Meeting places #thepoetrymarathon #prompthourtwenty
That thin line between the full moon and insanity… That ribbed edge of the flower bed where only weeds grow… That gold brocade of the wedding saree I never wore again… That flicker of light caught in a raindrop poised to fall… That quiet chirp…
Walking under the stars
Walking under the midnight stars Invisible paths and many scars Rope-like creatures lurk around Crickets and flies all abound Moonlight watches overhead Stars peep under the ocean Eyes on the road ahead Soon we will be in bed
Always Have The Night
The darkness welcomes me wraps like a cloak around me The stars shine high above a whisper through the thrilling dark Small burning embers from so far away The moon is my conscious placing every careful guided step The wind my shadow chasing me, ahead…
Fetch Her the Star
(for hour 20—this is a blend! I wanted to do the 3-repeating-lines prompt from hour 3, so it’s mixed with the “walking at night” AND image prompts of hour 20…because typing poetry at this hour makes one giddy like that.) Fetch Her the Star…