WE ARE POWERFUL There is ‘art’ inside every heart, Do not kill the artist inside you! There is ‘air’ in our hair, Let your hair loose and do not get tied up old traditions There is an’ I’ inside every eye, See only what makes…
Category: Poetry Prompts
Hour 4: Goodbye, Two Weeks Shy
To have and to hold from this day forward In sickness and in health Two weeks shy …there’s an odd feeling of displacement in that In the midst of the grief Tears upon tears Rage at the universal unfairness of the universe Rage and tears…
“The Independent”
A hard-edge helium balloon, Home alone, flying soon. Independent at eighteen, A no crown queen. I’m at the precipice, Tolerable by the wind. A shriek panic, A ponder mistake. I love being a lone spirit, But that does not mean I hate love….
The Birth of Art (a Nonet) – Hour 2, Prompt 2
Staring at bare paper I see light nouns and verbs they love to pick fights like empty canvas yearns paint page woos brain to create sometimes wall is blank but mind, it cranks masterpiece again wins. – Sandra Johnson, 9/2/23
Prompt Four – I just want to be your Priority
Text prompt: Nancy Anne Smith suggested this subject for a prompt we do every year. Your challenge is to write a poem about the topic of marriage, without ever using the word marriage, and while also ideally avoiding the words spouse, husband, and wife. …
Twenty Little Poems (3 hour)
The prompt is not a gift nor a lift Which it was and I would have floated a drift If it were so, I would spread my wings and move like a fly Kiss the moon and return to the Earth on a fly…
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…
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 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…