…would have slain me to see what would not now be in them had I looked had I taken the flight picked up the phone called myself to task shown up wearing black would have slain me to see her wearing the periwinkle dress from…
Category: Poetry Prompt Responses
#4- Always Mine
TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH SPOILER WARNING: LORD OF SHADOWS- CASSANDRA CLARE High above the Council Hall, The golden clock began to chime the hour. As if the world didn’t care for her, As if the world didn’t ache for her loss. My eyes brimming with…
Hour Four
Glass I have always found it hard to get close to anyone. You would always joke and say that I was a lot like a porcupine. Cute, but yet so harmful to those around me. I promise, I never meant to hurt you. I never…
Tomorrow Is Another Day – Hour Four
“After all tomorrow is another day.” – Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936) After all, tomorrow is another day This day’s trials are passed While on this day, the struggle’s real Have faith it will not last For each new dawn is a new…
Deadly Storm – hour 4
A deadly storm is brewing And only time will tell Who will still be standing When the water drains to Hell Who’ll be struck by lightening And who’ll just blow away Who will find their higher ground Or drown beneath the waves A deadly storm…
Prompt 4, Poem 4: Remember
Thus, remembrance; the tiny memories I keep in a box with a heart on the top; protected from forgetfulness. Pictures are all around in my home, memories trapped in time I can revisit. Or of people or cats I can reminisce. Stuffed animals are…
Farewell Brownie Banshee
Fly then… but you don’t fly, little one… little brown one… little brownie in my house. Go count the Safeway clearance grains. scattered yesterday to keep you away. No more crushing of paper or pounding my drum. Don’t scurry more across this fake wood floor….
I’ve never even been to Ohio
“He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.”…
Cleansing Night
(for hour 4—last-line prompt) Cleansing Night Amid the eruption of the righteous and night-lighting fires, their anger finally stokes to overboiling. A brick crashes through the mechanic’s window and the traitor is pulled to the street to pay for his sins; not only…
C.h.o.i.c.e.s.
Choices planted Hunt your existence Haunt your sleep Harvest your feather Choices deracinated Deny your greatness Decimate your strength Declare your death As Godin wrote, in his note: finally, realise that you are In a powerful position And use that power To do…