For hundreds of years One life to the next Our souls came together In life, until death When our eyes first met Those memories returned The lives that we’d lived The times that we burned The vows that we made Lifetimes ago That, where one…
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Wonderland of Graves – hour 8
Everything in Wonderland Is destined to repeat A spinning wheel of madness That will drown you in defeat Alice knew the atmosphere Was poisonous, at best She’d seen it enough times to know The wicked never rest And when the war was over She knew…
Weird Is What We Make It – hour 7
Weird is what we make it And normal’s just myth Paid for by their bottom line It never did exist They tell you what you want to wear Then tell you what to eat In marketing and strategy And everyone you meet Give me gothic…
Untold Stories – hour 6
There’s no place like home With a coffin of glass In a magical forest Where they grieve as they pass For knowledge is poison And love was a lie There’s no kiss to wake her Just tears left to cry For each life she touched…
The Time Capsule – hour 5
There’s a time capsule inside of me No one else will ever see For though I pour things out in verse Few know the stories behind the words They’re written snapshots of my life Every poem that I write Has some basis in my truth…
Deadly Storm – hour 4
A deadly storm is brewing And only time will tell Who will still be standing When the water drains to Hell Who’ll be struck by lightening And who’ll just blow away Who will find their higher ground Or drown beneath the waves A deadly storm…
Apocalyptic Endings – hour 1
Apocalyptic endings Mass extinction all the way People think they’re rarities But they happen every day Within the souls of people Passing on the street You wouldn’t know to look at them It could be anyone you meet The kid who sells you coffee Whose…
My Gift (hour 24, prompt 24)
All my life I’ve had a gift A way with precious words That when the right ones come to me I put them into verse If I try to force it Or change it, just like that If I try to make it different I’ll…
Cotton-Candy Land (hour 22, prompt 22)
Once upon a marshmallow morning In a cotton-candy land Children’s laughter everywhere As they did the candy dance Around trees of chocolate kisses At the Skittles rainbow’s end They danced and sang so merrily And held each other’s hands While fairies dusted them with sugar…
The Finish Line (hour 21, prompt 21)
The night’s dragging on forever And yet time is flying by Dripping poetry in our wake As we pen words with a sigh 24 poems in 24 hours A creative’s crazy dream Push your talent to its limit Like a seamstress’ outer seam Now…