residing deep in the places Where darkness feels at home a peace hovers like the early morning fog on a humid day after a night’s  thunderstorm the moist thick air clings and coats and grabs you whole a barrier to things other than calm dripping…

Hour nine poem, based on the prompt:

Alrighty – hour 9 with the prompt “hold this on your tongue”   Poem 9: If you hold this on your tongue and let it dissolve like a fresh fallen snowflake two days before your birthday you will engrain this taste into your memory.  …

The Dictionary.com word of the day for Saturday is paucity. Paucity When something is lacking or needing more when there is only a bit of any particular thing a deficit of dimes for the coin collector, a scarcity of snakes for the snake lover, a…

Sonnet – Good Advice   “Live each day as though life has just begun,” worry not about telling the story, nor how you will seek your lasting glory for life is not for sorrow but for fun.   This is your race, so find a…

Using the text prompt to engage in some silliness for Hour 9. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch because to make an omelette, you’ve gotta break a few eggs and that’s only going to throw off your tally You’ve gotta walk and don’t look…

His Eyes (5:00 PM – Hour 9) ~ D², @d2poetry   Hey little man With your curious  Glare Over your daddy’s shoulder I caught your stare When you noticed  Smiled and turned away shy Was it because you locked with my eyes Could you see…

She watched from the treeline in the heat of that summer evening, a strange ochre colored beast with cotton ears and short front legs – white, like she was wearing stockings. In my lethargy, I watched back as she crept closer, and wondered of my…

The Firefly And The Moth 1/2 marathon poem #9 In the strange heat of an English summer Where the firefly hides within a bottle Safely glowing behind a glass bulb’s wall In these trying times he’s out of trouble In the strange heat of an…

The hour 9 prompt is to use at least five words out of a list of ten. I used seven.