Before we continue: I don’t know if this was a memory or a dream. Maybe it’s both, maybe it’s neither Nevertheless, this meadow has been a part of me since I was quite young. A long stretch of green grass spotted with honeysuckles, whose fragrance…

In the aftermath of an argument about nothing and everything. I wondered what is love if not the turning of perspective so that one sees clarity over confusion feels peace consume suffering sees the dark of fear dissipate in the light. What is love? Love…

Swallow tails Don’t need their tails They just use them to Escape the birds Oh shoot this is almost late. I’ll do it properly later

It was a cold morning on the bayou. I looked outside and noticed the light bulb by the carport had broken. I grabbed a jacket, while taking a sip of my cinnamon beet juice and headed outside to replace the light. A tremor came over…

Two large butterflies careening through my backyard flirtatious, they are Yellow, black, all I know little of butterflies understand graceful Arriving as came unassuming nimble in their calming methods – Mark L. Lucker © 2023 http://lrd.to/sxh9jntSbd

Hour Eight The devil nestles underneath car door handles flooding lungs and invading the bloodstream of society. The drivers fein placation with promises of Pleasure Island. Nostrils extend in deeply croaking breaths heavy-handed and grappling protests are caught in the throat as a scurry of…

Never the pretty one, Or the popular one, I was made fun of often. Teased for how I looked, How I talked. I became extremely self-conscious, More aware of my appearance than I should have been. At all times, My hair was done, Make-up on…

Bayou Beet coloured cheeks Cinnamon sands clothe us I touch your elbow as you gaze Tremor  

Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so. beet jacket tremor bayou elbow lightbulb cinnamon bucket elk carport   Quake the tremors deep in…

Prompt for Hour Nine Text Prompt: Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so. Beet, jacket, tremor, bayou, elbow, lightbulb, cinnamon, bucket, elk, carport…