The Poetry Marathon

Prompt 17 Solitude (2014 prompt – solitude)

Prompt for Hour Seventeen

I am comfortable in my solitude.
I keep myself occupied
with many things to reflect upon as well explore.
I am my own best friend.
Solitude is my companion.
I want to discover different aspects
of the capacities of my solitude and push myself.
I use this space to listen to what the universe is telling me.

Prompt16 Library

A wonderland of sorts awaits me patiently

organized and in rows all ready to be read.

I feel rich at heart with the wonder that surrounds me,

Who wouldn’t want to live for an eternity

surrounded by such a creative space.
I can’t wait to unleash my insatiable desire for stories and art.
I want to create and reinvent myself in this sacred space of art and creation.

I want to get lost in a book and sing myself to sleep.

Prompt 15 sweet dreams

I gazed at him

Tightly tucked

In his blanket

As his eye lashes took

The night off

The whole world

That surrounds me

The air, the quiet,

Stopped dead in their tracks

Momentarily as if lending me

The opportunity to capture

It for an eternity’s keepsake.

No worries threatened to

Crease his brow

No wrinkles dared to crumple

He is such an angel when he’s asleep.

 

#2 My recipe for happiness

5 ingredients are:

quiet time, to reflect

time together, unity

reflection, for what could have happened but didn’t, so it’s good

time to listen,shows I care

time to take action, in some way.

#1 Write a poem about a famous woman or an influential woman you know personally

I thought I posted this yesterday but cannot find it so here it is

 

Mom-

influential to me

and many more I was unaware of

She is gone now, May 1

Tributes and memories have filled

my FB feed

Wow!

I never knew it mattered

meals on time, every day

the house cleaner than even she realized

as if she had standards to meet.

 

#12 grab a book, read the first line and read the last line, choose one

It took me a long time to be comfortable where I am

 

Without you I’m lost

with you I’m not

I’d rather be

together

forever.

 

#11 a poem about a place I’ve never been to

The end of a rainbow

somewhere there is a pot of gold

at the end of the rainbow they say

I’ve searched and searched

found nothing

I can see the rainbow ends here

no pot of gold anywhere.

#10 Listen to Moon Shadow

Persistence

if I lose

I’ll go on

with or without

I’ll go on

#9 use 5 of these words

firefly, bottle, mask, zoom, treeline, heat, strange, cottage

 

A firefly

trapped in a bottle

strange sight

in a treelined cottage

far far away from

any civilization

#8 my choice of a random prompt

A poem about practice

Practice is important

it makes you better

improving tolerance and ability

repetition is a good teacher

a teacher of increased diligence