Batter-fry Take one woman, docile Add liberal doses of harsh treatment, preferably, in the first few months/years of marriage. Harsh, how harsh? Hmm, comments like, late from work again, flirting with your colleague, didn’t your mother teach you anything, housework first, children first, husband first,…
Category: Poetry Prompt Responses
Diamond
Covered in dirt Blood Sweat Tears Buried Deeper than you want to search Covered in greed Mourning Squeezing Shards of glass Look what I dug up ?
I’ll Never Forget You
Have you forgotten me yet? The ways it was easy? How I felt like home? How you were never alone? Have you forgotten the ways you wanted to please me the ways that I teased you and then delivered it all? So much time has…
(Hour 16) 12.30pm-13.30pm. TEXT PROMPT: last line question, title the answer
Nobody knows What are they? Where did they come from? Will the human race survive? Will the earth herself? How the bloody hell did they just obliterate 7 billion people & countless billion animals, birds, insects in a millisecond? & the hardest one of all,…
Poem 4 – They’re Simply Special
What is it about memories Good ones, make us laugh Bad ones, make us reflect Special ones, make us cry What is it about recollection Brings long lost friends together Brings distant relatives closer It’s the opposite of a disputant There are those…
I Want to Believe (2022 Poem 16)
Twin Flame to my soul, I have dreamt of you Yet I do not know, are you real I grow and evolve, with each dat that passes Am I meant to be happy now, until the end of time If our Souls exist outside of…
Hour Sixteen – Home Again
Home Again All the world over, where would you go? Up to the Arctic with the ice and the snow? Or do you prefer a nice sunny beach with a tropical drink waiting well within reach? Would you visit the pyramids in old Egypt land,…
Almost Midnight – Hour Sixteen
The hour is getting later And my head begins to spin But I will keep on writing Exhaustion will not win I’m pushing towards the finish Inching closer every hour With coffee, I will make it I shall harbor the power I am feeling a…
Hour 16 – The Cost of Mankind – Image Prompt
Lumber yard Construction Sunset Industry Destruction Regret Built city Production End it Flat lands Reduction Spend it Mountain land Obstruction Bend it Train Station Seduction Defend it Cross puzzle Induction Up ended Graveyard Destruction Unscented
Because we will not be denied
As always, we move forward obstacles are always there, always will be we go over, through, or around them Tell us no – someone always does – tell them in no uncertain terms your ‘YES’ what is at stake here is you, yourself You are…