Conjoined twinning is perilous oxygen and blood, fo ever and ever, hoping for shared viewpoints heartbeats heard hopes supported. Society expects this bargain to be made of loss in service to the other who carries on as normal, considers the rest as baggage to be…
Category: Poetry Prompt Responses
Poem 4, The Dream
They walk through life holding hands, making each other laugh, building each other up, catching each other as they fall; writing notes for the other to find. They live a cliché. And wouldn’t change it for the world. She writes romance novels, inspired by her…
Empty
For fifteen years I did my best To honor all those vows We shared before Goddess and man But I had to get out He had a mistress those last few years And I could not compete When I tried to intervene He’d knock me…
Hour 4 image prompt- Icy Sermon
One day in distant future Ice walls walled in our pride The few of us remaining And hiding deep inside An igloo city of the ancients Built by those who burned our world After they at least reflected And leaned into saving Gaia “Now ye…
prompt 4: musings on light
musings on light how could they know? this glimpse into the heart of us- a window to the places warmer than who you are to me now, in the chapel of our discontent… your discontent… my in ability to be what you needed me to…
hour four – marriage
I wove our worlds together, silk, cotton, linen, wool for the cooler months nothing synthetic I would have picked the flax and cotton myself, sheared the sheep even, but I was in the garden picking herbs and vegetables for the soup I was making for…
Hour Four – 2023
Using the Prompt: “write about marriage without a direct mention of the words…” Thanks to Nancy! [2023: Hour Four, Half Marathon]. Dancing bouquet, as Fate leads the way – Together we sway, toward the dawn of new days, Our souls; embracing Union. Joined in bliss;…
After forty years
He brings me tea, with just enough ice After nearly forty years, this is quite nice. He sprays my feet, then covers my tootsies After nearly forty years, we still play footsies. He covers me at night, temperature appropriately set After nearly forty years, he…
Hour 3 poem
MATHEMATICS OF LIFE Add your smiles Subtract your sorrows Multiply your happiness Divide your chores Differentiate between Good and evil Integrate the goodness in all Time is precious Count your blessings Life is not a graphical function It’s a combination of rational , irrational and…
Two worlds #2023poetrymarathon #prompthour4
Two worlds in juxtaposition Living separate lives but bound by a thread Invisible, fragile, sharpened by years To cut through life’s griefs To bind and enable. Will it last, will it last? Will it endure the test of time? Or shall it shatter In a…