hour 5

imagine earths’ edge far off horizon defined end sharp corners, hard lines a tipping point    what’s over the side? all the other earth’s this one could’ve been    if this were a different world different humans different histories different systems  different beliefs  different theories…

Silent Witnesses

We walked by a statue every day for a hundred days never knowing what lay inside   We walked over a bridge every day for two hundred days never knowing what lay beneath   We walked under a tree every day for three hundred days…

Red handed

Matted hair covers my palms It’s not mine Not kinky like mine Not dark like mine I hadn’t realized how hard I was pulling When I took a blade to his throat I brush the hair from my hands As if that would wash away…

Zeus is a Jerk

Plato said, Once we were whole four arms, four legs, and two heads We had long conversations with ourselves and assisted each other in daily life We were never alone   But then Zeus (the actual reason for 90% of drama in Greek mythology) threw…

Hour 6 Image Prompt – Offbeat

Got lost today Hopefully to find a new way A way through darkness To the light A way that flowers grow Swaying in the wind   I left prepared for the journey Everything I thought if needed Would be within arms reach Now I’m here…

Swan Lake – Hour Six

Swan Lake Swan Lake for some is but a dance But, here, it is vacation A camping trip that at a glance Yields rest and relaxation Picturesque hints of crystal blue Meet up with forest green A break from life, a fond adieu From all…

Frozen Union (a nonet) – Hour 4, Prompt 4

In an ice-covered cube they move, two vows bind their love, like frost entwined lovely she, dashing he, find this frozen space, like minds hold and have, rich, poor death may tap door but their ice lives on strong.   – Sandra Johnson, 9/2/23  

Prompt six – Conversations with God

Prompt for Hour Six – Text Prompt The earth is actually flat, you look over the edge and what do you see? Describe it.   Conversations with God   Should have been the stuff of nightmarish fright. But strangely it wasn’t, it felt right, as…

As Ought To Be…. Like one in a dark cell having a peep at the faraway dawning of another day, I see the world just as it ought to be. Straight as our dealings with each other,no intellectual robbery in the guise of colonialism. Every…

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