But that’s what imperfection gives me. And lately, the weather has been unfair to me than the mosquitoes in my room. Shocking, how my body rejects what it once accepted. This I called a reminder that I am still here, in the old world, that…
Category: Poetry Prompt Responses
Hour 5 – Time Capsule (text prompt)
I finally got a shovel (unhaunted) 2 dig as deep as I wanted And permits for the land Which I’d researched 4 beforehand. I finally broke the earth, Dug 6 feet down (for what it’s worth) Thought about stopping to grab a ladder But nah,…
Prompt 5, Poem 5: Grandma
Rain has cleansed the town, nourishing the grass and flowers; I sit on the front porch, breathing in the clean air. Suddenly, one of my cats comes running across the yard and stops, batting at an object sticking out of the ground. I cautiously approach…
Have a Nice Day – Hour Five
I am writing this note A missive, I guess To say I’ll be leaving tomorrow My time has now passed It’s over and done And there aren’t minutes left here to borrow I gave you my all, all my time and tears My best and…
The Corvus Metaphor
The Serpents head and its tail Beginning and end we often find Like the Sun whose found to never fail Following a course to which its confined Perched upon the serpents tail Finding a crow and with its beak Is found to peck…
Hole In The Ground- Hour 5
Yellowed over the years Edges worn from weathered storms The smell of ancient years It read, 1997 If you’ve found this, Then the world still exists And the plague of my time has not killed the human race I give you my greetings I give…
One Worded Oracle
Sternly perched upon mine heart One word echoed unbendingly True— I said as it would depart Its one worded reply— almost knowingly For the future made haste With what was already known For this one—word embraced It’s predictability and its only answer found—…
Relics of the Future
The cache in casket buried Exhumed as a signpost of immeasurable information Aha! Relics of the future iPad iPhone iPod iMate iTV We, the future, are now in the present Modern army will cultivate Another capsule For another farmer For another rain
Hour 5, Hands
Hands They open the casket and I ask if I can hold your hand a callused time capsule of every choice you’ve ever made, particles clinging from the skin you last caressed, hairs on the back moving under the fans – the only part…
The Chalice of the Goddess of War
(for hour 5—time capsule prompt—put in the world of Onweald) The Chalice of the Goddess of War More than four hundred years have passed Since the wizard Hrazon accepted his quest When prophets announced the lots were cast And he placed her…