To Haunt This Pen

Again I have need to haunt this pen for again you have forgotten my words and have ceded your power to another I see this hold she still has over you but I do not know how to rationalize it You have retuned to following…

miles to go (after Robert Frost)

miles to go (after Robert Frost)   blood flows           hot and               ragged a collective thrum. walls  surround      them,  they have chosen to              let our cries be drown out by  their preachers whose shouts of condemnation do    …

Christmas Angels on a Snowy Eve

Hour 2 Prompt 2   Christmas Angels on a Snowy Eve (inspired by Robert Frost)   Amid a winter’s walk profound With starlight whisp’ring soft around The moon stretched long her guiding light Toward a peaceful, soothing sound   Angelic voices in the night Led…

2022 poetry marathon hour 2 – “the fading fae forest”

2022 poetry marathon hour 2 – “the fading fae forest”   Prompt line chosen from “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening” by Robert Frost ~line selected: ‘Whose woods these are I think I know’~   The woods were astonishingly beautiful They were They WERE…

The Darkest Evening of the Year (Hour 2)

“The darkest evening of the year” -Robert Frost, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening the first time you hold his neck he tells you that it is a palace only a queen enters you tell him you are his queen then he shows you…

Promises

– after Robert Frost The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep. I promise myself to be true first to me. I promise to honor you and me before we. I promise to meet tough moments with grace. I promise…

Ode to Robert

Enamored of the woods long before I came to know, love Robert Frost As a boy I knew contemplative pull of woods ‘lovely, dark and deep’ I had trod same, worn paths in summer not until I was well an adult did I discover The…