Prompted Poems - Poems about Prompted

...MY FATHER'S HANDS I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-day’s work. Those hands shov......

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... That life is a struggle, there's no denying when the distance between light and dark is just one misstep across the boundary line Problematic for mankind since time began Prompted by the remin......

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...Notes: This poem is related to the performance, impermanent art "This Progress" by Tino Sehgal - a choreographed conversation in the Guggenheim Art Museum where the visitors walk up the spir......

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...Someone asked us how we began, in as what was our truth search plan and the path to which we were drawn to perform a consciousness scan? We sleep when we’re prompted to yawn, awaking to vibran......

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...2025.4.14. I have started writing diary since May last year. Eventually, my diary's style, transformed to poem like. After five months of losing friendship with BB, By the end of the year, I r......

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...April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul which rocketed into aerospace (courtesy General Electric satellite) just a tad shy of fif......

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...I went to the cop, in New Haven PD I said I've got a crime story, but it's hard to believe The cop said cheerfully, "let's hear, try me" So I took a deep breath, tried a memory retrieve. I said......

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...2025.3.17 How true was it? "A friend in need is a friend indeed" T and I were friends for half a century. Our friendship fell out three times over these years, During our youth included our ad......

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... Poems request that I be authentic. I am unsure my pen can take it. I live life as an emotional sayer, but should I now reveal each layer my blood will spill upon this paper. I have......

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...When You Are Old Poetry Contest Sara Kendrick Yeats' poem describes his courtship that sank With his misconnection he is bitter And he takes digs at his beau's true glitter Alluding that hi......

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...I tore the page from its binder and ripped it to pieces, not wanting to be associated with the scribbles I had left on the sheet. To call that abomination 'art' would be an insult to the craft, and......

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...Twas on a night of December The 25th, I do remember When a young man knelt inside his house Alcoholic drink, down his throat spent It was easy for me to know where his thoughts went For here ......

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...emphasized distinguished & scattered spread out pretexts for reflection of nowaday notions influenced & flavoured with humour prompted by contemporary ......

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...This December 17th, 2024... alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable th......

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...Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon assassinated at 10:50 PM, on December 8, 1980 forty four years later to date outside The Dakota Apartment, (also known as the Dakota Apartments), located......

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