Prompt 9 five minute poem

Five minutes, that’s all it took. He was ill, hungry and tired. Ok.The diarrhoea was a no no. What’s a mangy fox to do When faced with a cat’s flap Into brightness, But enter that forbidden world? To dance, disturbingly, Past pots and pans, To…

The New Girl

All my life I have been the new kid The one searching desperately For a niche   The girl Who went into a classroom Of “friends for years” Knowing no one   The soul Wanting only acceptance The ease to be herself Without judgment  …

Hour 9

Ciel shimmies up that silky blue like a monkey wrapping and weaving it around herself when she reaches the top a pause that’s my heart up there I hold my breath SNAP she launches herself into a drop tumbling over – once, twice, three, times…

Hour 8

double yellow ribbons unfurl before me disappearing round the next bend so many hours in the driver’s seat shuttling lovelies to dance some days I’m spread thin, tearing at the edges, grumpy and desperate to be home some days it’s quiet, they read or nap,…

Filled with emotion

my stomach is full of it, bread I use to think, until I looked deeper, it was hard to get there, through all the fat, yes I said it fat… I hide it well, sucking in and trying my hardest to appear thin, I’m not…

Autobiography of a Face (hour 10, 6:02pm)

He smiles, and utters a strange muted sound. His face does not reflect his irritation. He is bored, uninterested, wishing he were somewhere else. He squints his eyes, and turns his mouth, as in a smile. Again, the sound. Should I save him? If I…

ever after

our first thanksgiving you agreed to be alone with me, away from your family in Queens. we rented that house near Woodstock and you chopped wood, more than we needed, but you loved the feel of swinging the axe. i baked two cornish hens, stuffed…

A lone dreamer of unimultiverses

a loner to the world of possibilities a dreamer who ponders on his own vision always looking upon different realities in every endeavor discovering new means to convey the messages of life, love, friendship, community, unity and common expression pulsating every moment, capturing every heart…

Calm (6:00 PM)

It intrigues me how in this world filled with chaos and christs nothing can soothe me like you. No massage or therapy can calm me like the affliction of your touch. Your smile and kiss is all I need to pull me from my cloud…

Soul Hug

My wish for this is To explore the depths Of the universe bliss To be able to receive and give This soul hug To all that lives

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