Fishbowl

Hour Six A fish out of water scooped out of the expanse with a net of lies and plunged within a crystalline bowl. Flitting to the surface wherein lies the tease of sustenance and breath held in stagnancy. Feeble attempts to avoid the anglerfish and…

I’ll die in the night

Her duskiness is nigh I hear the mice crawling I will with a bottle of rum Bid my dad life good bye I know joy comes in the morning Only I may not make it to dawn Applying make up to bed I can’t die…

I Take Them With Me

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 thought a tribute to remembrance to lives previously lived during my years on the back roads….

Hour 6 Image Prompt – Offbeat

Got lost today Hopefully to find a new way A way through darkness To the light A way that flowers grow Swaying in the wind   I left prepared for the journey Everything I thought if needed Would be within arms reach Now I’m here…

Hour 6 “Solitary…”

Hour 6 9/2/2023   “Solitary…”   Seems a commonality shared within our understanding and even the acceptance of the word “solitary” for what it is.  But is it “shared” or is it just that we each have our own unique ‘bars’ behind our eyes?  …

Hour 6 text prompt – Over the edge, over again

I had a dream of A’Tuin The great turtle flying through space I peered over the edge and over again, The underside of the disc Expecting desolation A smooth platform to ease the labors Of four colossal elephants spinning Our great disc Instead it was…

Magnum Opus

Hour Four Outlining plans with graphite tracing the intent- gradients of charcoal delineate from our preconceived form an insult to our potential. Our attempts to take over and mold over the wire mesh construction- half-hearted clay structure unassuming to the crack from the heat of…

“Stress and it’s quick fix to relieve it”

Stress is the synonym of tension, To relieve it in youth, By getting a lifetime pension. Don’t let insects create a mess, Care well to manage tress. Take up a leisure work to relax, Shortly, you do not have to pay tax.   Practice mindfulness…

Nearer #2023poetrymarathon #prompthour5

Deep in the night I heard it ring The doorbell, soft and quiet. A few nights later I heard it again Insistent, strident. The next time I went to the door Peeped through the eyehole At a dark empty landing. Yet again when I heard…

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