As Evening Falls

Children laugh and play Each donning a brightly colored raincoat Steam rising from cement As they stomp and splash In puddles left over From the warm summer rain They ask for jars To collect fireflies as evening falls

No New Home

The sounds just around the corner was a mystery The children listened for nights but still couldn’t solve it They tipped out one evening to see what they could find And just beside the neighborhood pond was a cute surprise The sounds were from a…

14 – tomorrow –

I carried my jars out into the evening, calling my children to get into their raincoats and come in search of mystery and science. We walked to the boundary where the town ceased and the floodplains began ssh.. the music changed from car hums to…

Prompt for Hour Fourteen

Write a poem that contains at least five of the following ten words. Feel free to include all ten if you wish. Frogs Evening Tomatoes Jars Raincoat Steam Peculating Children Elbow Mystery

Magnetism

Unbeknownst to most, Save for only a few, The laws of science are put to a vote And the laws are then renewed Last time, Pluto’s fate was sealed The system now a skewed. This time, we have a new conflict Between gravity and magnetic…

Paradise Conversion

There once was a planet called earth Where humankind at one time was birth Then they eat of the wisdom That showed them the Kingdom And now everyone knows their own worth jj2017

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Words that form, flowing Singing, stinging Stringing you along Listening, whilst creating Another poetess song   Writing with others, all over From glorious prompts Testing our courage Stretching my smarts   As day turns to night Halfway through this Enjoyable plight Some stop now, sleeping…

Absence

Trees uprooted, leafing Water flowing freely Dripping all around   She whispers so discreetly With no feet upon the ground   Floating around, so freeing Nothing to tether, just receiving Moon’s coming down Up to misconceiving   She whispers so discreetly Rising above the sound…

Heart and Soul

She lived alone The loneliness stayed Surrounded by many everyday In a heart and soul made a California Girl Too country for this world Longing for the right love in the right place and time Inside lies the darkness of Life displayed The smile she…

Prompt For Hour Thirteen

What if the world changed suddenly? What if one of the laws of science that has always existed, suddenly stopped existing, or the details of the rules changed? For example what if we woke up one day and gravity as we know it had changed,…