Prompts Poems - Poems about Prompts

I am laying awake pondering the agony of it all I am hurting inside my heart, sweetheart I long for the times we used to sit and talk I still remember your touch, it would cause me to shiver I loved you and I still love you I am feeling so lost inside now that you are gone I came...

Continue reading...

A rustic swirling synthetic timeless illusion, phantom birthed blossom from emanate silence, The subtle distinction, ghastly gavotte to cremation, a nuance that belies the true nature of our relationship. You think you speak to me, me, speaks to me, but it is I who manipulate the conversation, I who weaves the web of words to ensnare you. My intent was...

Continue reading...

Write a “how-to” poem about something you don’t know how to do - 'being normal' I can approximate it I've seen it up close occasionally Sleight of being It's starts with etiquette, a learned behaviour 'Good' then the time of day e.g. 'morning' Followed by gentle enquiries (Last known activities for brownie points e.g 'how did Zumba go?') Then you state you'd love...

Continue reading...

Write a “how-to” poem about something you don’t know how to do - building a watch In the beginning there are pieces Already there, scattered on a table My beginning is to sort them Time is spent creating groups There's logic from outside to inside On the outside, in the still of the second You'd never know what doesn't work Teeth need...

Continue reading...

Playing a game of connect the dots my pen is alive with wild thoughts; May say I don’t play nice I just ignore that voice; Flying without writing prompts...

Continue reading...

I Your writing takes me higher, to a brighter day Response: Your words, too, doth reader repay II Sad and poignant, yet depression held at bay In good and bad times, you display a mainstay NOTE: the longer version was lost in space .... Cyberspace. Maybe it is ENOUGH SAID, by the Universe. ThanX for reading PS. Bless u, shalom shalom...

Continue reading...

lengthy thin needle ingests blood to produce eggs~ inflicts pathogen Aug17, 2020 Placed 5th in the contest. Note: Haiku-Nature themed 2, poetry contest. Sponsored by Tania kitchen....

Continue reading...

(alternately titled: Pee pee song and dance routine) Invariably analogous setting kickstarts schlemiel to agitate excretory mechanism linkedin, viz body electric doth actuate merely upon turning faucet triggers unstoppable onset to micturate drinking coffee or caffeinated tea also functions as diuretic mimics similar rush'n spate oh boy... if I hesitate to whip out trouser snake late... he himself will humiliate courtesy warm liquid will trickle soiling pea green pants legs knotted...

Continue reading...

What if I didn't get up this morning? What if I let the rain stop time? But, she said, time won't stop-- For if it did The rain would freeze And never fall to earth. As if to reply to a ghost, I said, Who needs logic? It is enough to remain still And let the sky rotate overhead Unnoticed, To let the sky eat the planets. It...

Continue reading...

For all I know, I know nothing Who can say when enough is sufficing. No way to verify what searches reap To winnow out truths from junk pile heap. Garbage tower to heaven meant Like babel feeds bewilderment....

Continue reading...