Long day filled with stress Long week we need some rest We come together to partake in friendship In Gods hands we place our duress Some bring the food, Some bring the drinks Some offer themselves To iron out the kinks And Music too provides…
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Bursting At The Seams/ prompt 11/ 7pm
Hahaha jokes on you You thought you’d be the one To chuckle last But unt unt unt, Not so fast He who makes a funny Must be a comedian Oh how very convenient My words are rather lenient I kid you not Amusement is my…
Speedy Von Turtle / Prompt 10/6pm
Oh what Lightning speed he’s got Leaving the other animals in thought Like a flash you barely see Just a cloud of smoke or three Slow poke slow poke once was said The hare so fast he rested instead Arrogantly sure of himself He fell…
The Good Ol’ Days / 9th prompt
A slice of bread, And white at that Covered in condensed milk That was our snack And sometimes that Was dinner too Single mother of four Just trying to make do Oh how I miss Those days of old Amidst the struggle We didn’t fold…
A Twist of Fate / 8th prompt
Beware the lions roar, it’s gnashing teeth The likes of something never before seen It’s jaws protrude from mandibles so large Your head would be the size Of a jaw breaker in real life. But let us not think morbidly, think positively Don’t lose your…
The Thicker The Blood/ 7th Hour
Sibling love, soul mates, twin flames Perhaps from a different time we came Connected at the root Through the spirit so divine So alike yet so different Both etched in time Giving more of themselves To one another than others Speaking without words An understanding…
Gone Too Soon /6th Hour
I wish I could have loved you The way you deserved to be loved But you ran with the wild ones Not easily harnessed, a free spirit I saw a side of you that no one saw A side I longed to honor and teach…
Sunflower Yellow/ 5th Hour
A valley of sunflowers Looking like a field Of melted cheddar cheese Wine glass in my hand I embody this space Lounging underneath The great oak Meditating on the fact That the last thing we lose… …is hope Satchel in hand I continue this walk…
Another Whodunnit – 4th Hour
So here we are 100 years in the future So many wounds opened And not one has been sutured A great many lives lost One senseless explosion Leaving holes in the legacy Of the families left broken We walk a fine line Between what’s right…
Final Dance – Hour 1
Her feet swiftly burrowed In the depths of warm sand As she sat in admiration Of the creation at hand Every grain a reminder of the great “I am” Surrounded by a beauty The expanse of the land With a quickness it wrapped her In…