The Poetry Marathon

Lost in A Glance, Hour 8

Caught my eyes from across the room and left me transfixed

Heart skipped, soul sucked into your presence for a nanosecond, then released

Gave me a hint of the depths beyond those curious brown irises,
A lingering taste of those mysteries beneath

It left me insatiable,
Barely able to breathe, palms sweaty
Completely disarmed by a glance, a smile, Batted your eyes and brought me to my knees

Everything I need contained within that moment
That held gaze across a room the only necessary component for my existence, everything else now inconsequential and mundane…

Until you wave to the guy standing behind me and call his name

What a shame

Sevenling

MICHAEL

A home is a place
Of love, acceptance,
Peace, and security.

Your arms are
My home, my solace
My peace, and my life.

I can’t live without you.

A Cold

A cold in olden times
Rests easy with Vicks VapoRub,
Mirinda and SkyFlakes.

In this, the present,
A cold demands a drop of blood,
Cold steel on your skin, a drug.

And she sleeps, it’s winter.

Soften

Wide and wild
Untamable and unfathomable

Waves crashing
Riptides pulling

When you enter me
I enter you

Taking you in
And being taken with you

As you sink into my depths
I sink into yours

Swirling around you
My presence taking oxygen’s place
My absence the effervescence that rises to the surface

I dance in your hair delighted
Twisting through it
Like kelp, it moves with me

I ease into your chest
When you breath it is only me
I lay my body over and around yours
There are no hard places here

I hold you and am held within you
I flow into your shape
Softly contained and containing

Hour 8 – (Sevenling)

She her hair was always a mess

As told by her only pet crow

When she was startled by a boom

 

By her laid a locked chest

Inside it her secrets she’d stow

And return behind her loom

 

…But she had long been laid to rest

Sevenling (our planet)

Our planet is a miracle:
dramatic waterfalls, soaring mountains,
brilliantly colored birds.

Our planet is in peril:
whales and dolphins washing up on our shores,
starving polar bears, the collapse of ecosystems.

The time is now.

Sevenling, Summer

There was a time, special
where summer days, nights
found me alone, content

I found solitude underrated
warmth of sun, cool evenings
some saw me standoffish

I am sure some still do.

 

– Mark L. Lucker
© 2019
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Prompt 10, Hour 8 Sevenling ?

The yard had an unmarked grave.

sad flowers, pine trees lined up like soldiers,

And the blue house with treasures.

A ghost lingered.

The sun set too soon, shadows convinced the children there were monsters

And the blue house has no treasure map.

Nobody came back for the dead.

Sevenling (a summer evening)  [8 – #sevenling]

A summer evening
Caprese, wine, and the last of the sun
With friends on the patio.

A winter evening with
Hot chocolate, a book, and a roaring fire
Just me alone on the couch.

I’ll take winter.

Buses at 2 a.m. (hour 5)

I was awoken at 2 a.m. by my Dad,

“Come on!” he roared, “You have a bus to catch”,

Startled and confused, I rose out of bed,

“What bus? For what?”

He rolled his eyes, “School dummy!”

 

I stared at him in horror,

It was 2.am, for god’s sake!

I walked downstairs, to the kitchen,

and made myself a coffee,

But I didn’t drink it, instead I fell asleep standing up,

 

I awoke outside and in a daze,

To hear an engine call out my name?

Bewildered, I looked out my front gate,

And sure enough it was my bus driving away

I yelled and cried, “Wait for me!!”

 

But it drove away without me,

Until it was just a green dot on the road,

I heard a faint meowing from behind me,

I looked over my shoulder,

It was my cat!

 

But it’s eyes were huge,

And it was stuck in a slinky,

My eyes widened,

I had to get him out!

I rushed over to him,

But he shrieked and ran away,

 

He ran out onto the road,

And I chased after him,

Remembering that I was still in my PJ’s,

He stopped, and stared at me,

I picked him up and scolded him,

But the sound of a horn, caused me to almost drop him,

I saw the front of the bus just as everything went black