Children laugh and play Each donning a brightly colored raincoat Steam rising from cement As they stomp and splash In puddles left over From the warm summer rain They ask for jars To collect fireflies as evening falls

The sounds just around the corner was a mystery The children listened for nights but still couldn’t solve it They tipped out one evening to see what they could find And just beside the neighborhood pond was a cute surprise The sounds were from a…

Unbeknownst to most, Save for only a few, The laws of science are put to a vote And the laws are then renewed Last time, Pluto’s fate was sealed The system now a skewed. This time, we have a new conflict Between gravity and magnetic…

Prompt Twelve This is my last prompt and I got stuck on the word count and couldn’t come up with anything to write. So, I checked the random prompts from previous years and one came up suggesting I use at least five of the eight…

Note: 100 non-repeated words. There was a time, when she was my friend. Long before she was controlled by man Before governments could bend and mold her Time was different then. Instead of linear, she was deep Time wasn’t rushed; she had purpose She had…

Mother Tongue   I never forgot this language— the way my tongue should roll when I pronounce the words   The accent and expressions grab the phrases strongly   The sentences slip out of my mouth with an ease   The pen doesn’t fumble when…

Earth under foot in time, to music played with a bow. Eyes that shyly meet Have a luminescent glow. The dance is a frenzied weave – Of twirling, spinning rows Leprechauns and their kin And others you may know Quicken the pace of the dance…

Run, Run, Run!   Run, run, run! or else they will go ahead the competition is fierce   Oh! Don’t take a break to breathe by the bay   Run, run, run! or else you would miss the train to the destination   Oh! Don’t…