For this prompt you should listen to The Swallowtail Jig. You can watch the video or not. Personally I prefer to turn the light on my screen down all the way and just listen. But I want you to really focus on the music and…

We lived off Prospect. It was my father’s first house purchase; he and my mother were young marrieds. That house seemed gigantic; I was five. Only through overhearing my mother tell this do I recall having my hair dressed by the neighbors down the street….

Vibrant colors Colors, chosen with care Care given to painting Painting a silly birdbath Birdbath for the garden Garden abundant with colors Colors, patterned hues Hues to help distract me Me from having to wait Wait for news of a baby Baby thoughts in my…

Indigo, your blue haze and purple embers of grain Makes a lover’s oath of starry nights And yellow moons in shape of sunflowers waning in the winds Your azure hue brightens my mind’s eye to the limits beyond the skies Every speck of silver lays…

How can you explain the color red burning in its deep dark majestic shade to someone whose colorblind. Oh! How terribly unfortunate are they for they are unable to experience the passion of red. How can you express the beauty spread across lavender fields and…

Women Divine Stop at the sign You have a loss Dressed like a boss Paint the town The nose of a clown Suit so bright On a candy cane with white Highlight of a sunset The love I’ll never forget jj2017

The brown of my eyes Showing deep compromise   Indigo, is the shade of the day The color of voice And work Yet, I am in word play   Not hard to keep my spirits up Beneath this clouded sky With out that endless blue…

Write a poem where color plays an important role. How you choose to interpret that role is up to you.

Different looks and poisons Make your web, unique and mighty  Curiosity draws them near you Fear, or respect, run them away  Simple yet complex Perfect and flawed Irresistible and undesired  Daunting and appealing  Eight legs, one spider Real or fake is a powerful tike jj2017

Eight legged creature Spin your web Let us stop Admiring our own Creations   Through your eyes Sparking strings are spun Let the lovers Learn where Our beauty grows   From the heart Small and vulnerable Bitten more than once