what is love when it’s one-sided? What is love if you’re not appreciated? what is love when you feel like the journey is just yours? What is this kind of love on rainy days? In the heat? On bad days? What is love when it’s…

Prompt: If I could make one thing vanish forever, it would be < this is a prompt from the teal version of Burn after Writing   Poem 10: If everything could last despite the absence of Time – I wonder what kind of world we…

Hour ten poem, based on the image prompt:

Count your chickens Count your eggs Eggs of potential Eggs of hope Hope in the future Hope to grow a family Family of freedom Family of reconciling Reconciling misunderstandings Reconciling brokenness Brokenness of thin skin Brokenness of pride Pride in perfection Pride in knowing Knowing…

As much as I like the image, I went with the text prompt for Hour 10. In keeping with the season we shall observe the ritual as we have done for many years now long enough that the practice from which we turned away has…

Death never has been my favorite song, and now I know why. With all due respect, Cat, I do not like the idea Of nothing.

The transformation came so fast At a warehouse party moving dancing laughing Shoved and pushed to the floor Stench of death hit before the ferocious gnawing Tried flailing couldn’t move couldn’t grab couldn’t claw – all numb hands stopped working Tried screaming couldn’t speak couldn’t…

After Moonshadow 1/2 marathon poem #10 You lost your mind one night Playing in shadows of moonlight You lost your way back home Singing of your woes in blue tones Don’t be lost now in the dark So come inside, no need to hark Don’t…

The prompt for hour 10 is to listen to the Cat Stevens song ‘Moonshadow’, then write a poem. Instead, I wrote my poem while I was listening, and finished when the song did.

A musician with no hands. A painter with no eyes.  A poet with no tongue. A lover with no love.   Victims of desire.   No charge. New charge.  Recharge.     Hour 10, Prompt 10 The Moonshadow Challenge