Hour Five (This one shows up on my profile before the end of the marathon but for some reason doesn’t show up on my activity feed. Is strange. Here is the screenshot of the original posting. Not sure what I fouled up on in posting…

Hour Five Memories tucked into my breast pocket left and close to my heart they flutter like eyelids just waking from slumber- fractured images play upon the screen of consciousness a remembrance and tribute to a life once lived the ancestors of self that passed…

Hour Twenty-Four (had to repost because I accidentally deleted the original that was posted at 8:44 am EST I had a horrible case of the dumb) It’s not so much about the carnal the jutting hips and softness of breast and the iron ripples of…

I once had a crush on a girl named Hope Brown hair in ponytail reaching her waist I had hoped to somehow get to know her Like a lot of my classmates I had Hope hope But with eighth graders you need to speak to…

I do not pray. I believe It is dangerous to call God’s attention to me. I’d rather Talk to you, speak As if you are alive Talk in whispers Throughout the night.   Last night I watched the moon As it clambered From one end…

Prompt Twenty-four – Text Prompt – Write a poem about hope.   Because they Hope   Hope is the best there is. Was she not the last one out of Pandora’s box? There is always hope, even against hope. Till the end, till the very…

3 AM Pancakes I’ve grown so accustomed to you being there I can no longer sleep when you’re not In fact, here I am with my 3 AM pancakes Alone and unable to sleep It’s funny that years of sleeping alone So normal and now…

Hour Twenty-Three My brain is pudding a casserole of deliberation charbroiled musings a culinary art. A souffle of hapless meanderings sticking to the bottom of the deadpan stare of a sleep-deprived wordsmith. I take the spatula of resolve and chisel away at metaphors- with eyes…

John Steinbeck once wrote a letter to Marilyn Monroe A humorous missive Underwood pica wishing her autograph on behalf of his teen nephew-in-law her lovestruck admirer That one of the greatest American writers sent a humorous note to America’s most famous sex symbol on behalf…

Somewhere around A.D. 995 Italian city of Naples the first one showed up quickly becoming a favorite stop especially after a long week pressing olives maintaining gladiator gear From this single shop a dietary staple came to life simple, ancient concoctions combinations of all sorts…