Tempting Fruit
Day 104 prompt: Fruit Fruit flies flit Round ragged rinds … Unclothed uglifruit uplifts Its inviting innards To tempt them
Tag Archives: poetry
What Goes Around
Day 103 prompt: Motorized Almost nine years old My little blonde girl Got a motorized scooter For Christmas Her third time out She hit a bump Spraining her foot To spend […]
Scary Dairy
Day 102 prompt: Dairy We cannot make merry When ol’ brother Larry Eats any dairy Why? The cruel lactose fairy Sends odors that scare me Through Larry’s derriere-y
Baffling Bibles
Day 101 prompt: The Letter B Bob and Bill bought bestsellers from the bookstore on Boise Boulevard both bound in burgundy and branded in bold Bodoni: “Bible” both brothers absorbed the […]
C is for Change
Day 100 prompt: The Letter C career changes carry consequences consternation collect correct clothing compress cumbersome commutes confront challenging co-workers consolation cultivate comfortable choices commandeer climbing compensation cherish colleagues’ celebrations continue […]
Dear Bunny
Day 99 prompt: Snack or Treat My kids’ Easter baskets Are strewn across the floor Peeps and chocolate bunnies And jelly beans galore Next year, Mister Bunny, Please add some things […]
Challenging Words
Day 98 prompt: Challenge/Challenging (a haiku) logophiles without dictionaries aggravate their Words with Friends foes
Delicious
Day 97 prompt: Mouth Watering Coerced by tugging The cork pops free My nose catches A whisper of the cask Deep red liquid Splashes into goblet My mouth waters Raising glass […]
More than Twenty Questions
Day 96 prompt: Vegetable on long car rides clever mama occupied her restless passenger with mind games discovering the alphabet on road signs and billboards spying license plates from all fifty […]
Faithful Orbs
Day 95 prompt: Orbs (a haiku) distant orbs take shifts faithfully lighting my life thank you sun and moon
Growing Up Rural
Day 94 prompt: Rural on long afternoons when I was a girl I’d lie in the grass and gaze at the swirl of clouds overhead the sky like a mural lost […]
Free Food
Day 93 prompt: Bread (a haiku) many hands turn up to receive tiny portions of free bread and wine
Heavy
Day 92 prompt: Heavy (a haiku) house tidy kids down mom stretches out to read but heavy eyelids close
Defining Religion
Day 91 prompt: Religion Today’s poem will be about religion, I said. I don’t even know what that is, my seven-year-old replied. I thought. Tired, I looked up a dictionary definition. […]
Faceless Portraits
Day 90 prompt: Faceless Portraits characters in my dreams have familiar faces husband children friends from now and long ago movie stars grocery checkers but I brace for nightmares when faceless […]
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