Prompt Sixteen – Text Prompt Write a poem that is pretending to be something else, a set of instructions, a recipe, a letter, a news report, etc.   Come, visit me please   Dear Dad, Hope you’re well, but you know, I have a bone…

Shuffle ball Shuffle ball Ball change Touch Heel step Step heel Heel step Three point turn Single buffalo With the beat Ready? Go!

1. Thread kindness through the needle of your apology and let the needle pierce beyond the excuses and half truths. 2. Pull the thread toward a place of grace, humility, and the recognition that even when you are wrong, you are loved. That even when…

Thank you Poetry Marathon gods … this is exactly what I needed.   ATTENTION unfortunately this poem factory is currently  CLOSED FOR LUNCH We will reopen again at 2.30 ACT after a bite to eat & possibly a quick lie down

Sometimes work is hard And leaves you drained so deep That all you can do Is go home and sleep Sometimes work is easy And you take it sleazy Feeling all breezy And those moment can be balanced And captured in whimsy Magic moments like…

Morning coffee smile. Foam milk art inspires. Barista magic.

Yellow is such a happy colour You pick up the sunflower and I imagine how the room will take on a glad colour with it You pay the florist and we walk out of the stall. In the next stall, you pick up a yellow-knitted…

Oh, you look so different from … Well, the norm Are you doing something later? A larp? A dance? You look a lil cooler, more confident So that’s how you see yourself? Well you should do it more often. Be yourself.

Hour Fifteen – Text Prompt Write a poem about an experience, but from the perspective of another. For example you could write a poem about your wedding from the experience of your spouse, or you could write a poem about an argument with a stranger…

A beet hidden in my jacket home in the bayou, I elbow the cat sitting below Cinnamon is her name she’s scared of the lightbulb, same as the bucket of veggies now elk blocks  my carport the beet, I use to get to work.   –…