Rain Dance

A downpour washes over me announcing change. I tilt my face up to the pelting rain opening my mouth to receive its wisdom. Washed-off sorrows form as puddles at my feet. In them I see a reflection of the full moon rising and I turn…

“Universal Sea Of Nothing”

Bound to lose these strong stories, I’m a nomad from mainland “worries”. The course I took was heavy… heavy, I found places, walls pain with ivy. When you look too hard, There’s a terrible mystery. Frame, frame seen on me. Game, Game, life can be….

#1- Drops of love

Petrichor invading my senses As I stand on the sandy earth The drops of water falling on me Gently, from the heavens above The winds around me are strong Lifting things up from around me But the torrents are stronger As the drizzle turns to…

I wish it would rain

I wish it would rain The sun keeps beating down Heat rises from the earth Every step feels like wandering further into the witch’s oven I’ve been out in the heat long enough that I feel like I should be well baked now I wish…

Prompt #1 / Hour #1 Write a poem about being in water.

Once a proud horse galloping across waving grasses deepest green turned blue the sun warming and nourishing her senses she belonged among the warm winds and soft rains. Her home was free. Her whole being was boundless. She found herself swept in the flood as…

Hour one

a slight wiggle a semi stretch my body tenses then releases wet water world slime slimy me skin slippery downy   curl up into a ball breathe in fluid in in no taste yet another wiggle move that knee grab the toe the big toe…

SPREAD THY WINGS

SPREAD THY WINGS Before heaven spread thy tiny wings, In the end like a warrior you may sing. Spread them widely in the breeze, get them set to fly with ease They are made for that purpose and not for decoration, So spread them what…

Prompts for the First Hour

For the second year in a row we are offering word and image prompts. The first prompt every hour will be text based (with occasional variations), and the second, if you scroll down, will be image based. You can choose either prompt or not use…

Rolling blackout poem ‘addition’

Marathon VCS Waking Up Is hard to do With images dancing in my mind Mingling into dreams I should have a coffee Or go for a walk But right after this I’m all done this run! It’s called a marathon, But it’s something else as…

Second Sight

For mysteries did hide from me As blind I was before But then reborn that I might see And faith— they then restore   Tears did drench mine eyes Baptized through my pain Yet— it’s then I could realize The strength I did contain  …

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