Car Shopping
Day 149 prompt: Vehicle Today I went Car shopping. Or shall we say Dealer hopping? VW, Hyundai, Mini, Toyota … And a lunchtime break For brisket and soda. The test drives […]
Tag Archives: poetry
Little Lady
Day 148 prompt: Itsy-Bitsy Teeny Weeny She wore delicate cotton dresses And played with tiny Tinkertoys Then began reading short words And locking her diary with a wee key She moved […]
Sweetness to Savor
Day 147 prompt: Edible She skips in From the yard Arms behind her back Wide eyes dance up Gleaming with surprises She can barely contain Our noses nearly touching Her springtime […]
Earth Tones
Day 146: Earth Tones earth tones our muscles as we stride across her surface wherever we may go she supports and accompanies us if only we will meet her
A Monument to Me
Day 145 prompt: Statue Suppose an artist Moved by my greatness Chisels a large stone Into my likeness A passionate sculptor With a spirit for verity Might carve out my features […]
Bread Broken
Day 144 prompt: Broken Bread broken Wine poured In the quiet Pastor lifts Sacred diet Precious gifts Silence broken Dad snored
Fear the Gray
Day 143 prompt: Fear the dark conceals what you’d rather not see in fear you stay in the gray where nothing is fully concealed even your shortcomings the light reveals what […]
Under the Hood
Day 142 prompt: Childhood In all likelihood Her childhood Of orphanhood Knit her selfhood Into an adulthood Of servanthood Rooting out falsehoods In the neighborhood Of the priesthood
Critter Jitters
Day 141 prompt: Critters All our babysitters Seem to get the jitters When a creature starts to skitter One wimpy sitter Complained on Twitter That my gecko was a spitter Another […]
What to Wear
Day 140 prompt: Casual Casual sex Happens outside The bounds of love In the marital Or emotional sense Unattached Uncommitted Unencumbered The opposite, then, Must be formal sex, Which would happen […]
Symbols of Trust
Day 139 prompt: Symbols If the person On the door Wears a skirt I go in If the tub Of rippled water Bears an X I don’t wash it If the […]
Fishy Decishy
Day 138 prompt: fish Flipping and flopping … Insecure menu hopping … Stuffed quarter pounder? (sigh) Healthy baked flounder
Celebration Articulation
Day 137 prompt: Celebration We say bravo Or way to go Hot damn It’s a grand slam Hip hip hooray You made my day All right That’s out of sight Ya-f***in’-hoo […]
Avocado Shame
Day 136 prompt: Retro my mom chose an Avocado stove not to go with her stoneware or to accentuate a stripe in the café curtain above the sink but because it […]
House Stories
Day 135 prompt: Letters in Architecture If the house where you grew up wrote a memoir, would its recollection of your childhood match your own?
Beth Nyland 