Sombrillas sombras

  With coloured fabric the sky is full with surprises against odds time flies briefly in a subject, spining while falling ideas into hair from hare above, roaring cascabel matters and it starts to shake when it rains everything sound like tingling, sand and dusty…

Ogdoad

In the Pythagorean landscape The dog dug up the lettuce Scattering soil over the terracotta tiles Nothing so mystical to be unattainable And yet still so mighty to be venerable Protected from the rain My spider’s web caught each drop and rerouted it. By undoing…

Poetry Marathon Submission #5

Perseid’s Shower Submission #5 Ann WJ White We laid on our backs. Lake Itasca, the beginning of the Mississippi parkland. A family waiting for the dusk to transmogrify into night full of stars and silence. Waiting for meteors to travel at thirty-five seconds per mile…

Constellations

The stars are thick in the sky The stars are scattered in the lake A star encased in glass sits in the boat The stars shine from the town I build constellations from sky To water To boat To land Wrapped in starlight

Prompt Two (2): Recipe For Procrastination

Recipe For Procrastination Ingredients: Active mind A sense of laziness A love of naps Insomnia Some bursts of depression Too much to do Not enough to do Easily bored Aging Take your active mind and mix it with too much to be done … for…

Dear Grandma & Grandpa

Dear Grandma B, So glad you’re safely tucked in the ground And don’t have to struggle while we’re cleaning up this mess You lost your mind just in time while the world was sublime but what you’d do right I cannot guess but I bet…

Hour 5 Prompt 5 Fairies

There were rainbow fairies that lived in the woods. At night, they would pick a forest somewhere in the world and engrave hearts into trees. Gone before sunrise, they didn’t want to be seen. People in boats wish under the stars and can could be…

This “bop” ain’t the top /hr3

If you wanna Stop mass shootings there is but one thing to do have those who do all the ruling have to have kids In public school too Get your killing out of our lives If you wanna Stop your kids from Bein shipped out…

The Climb – Hour 5 Prompt

As the journey concludes, I stand at the peak As I gaze o’er the valley below The sunbeams, a shadow of where I have been Their light, signs of where I’m to go For while here on top, where I can touch the sky I…

Burning Man Blues

I was 8 blocks from my camp site Then surrounded by sirens and flashing lights Another DWB, driving while black violation Unholstered guns pointed my direction Flash lights beaming in my eyes Cause to search my car based on lies I got burned at my…