Writing Prompt

While the worried world of war weeps,

People panic and pray for peace.

Terrified to face the fear, afraid to fight for freedom.

Stranded souls surely suffer,

Silent screams stir the somber air.

Searching for salvation,

Sudden sacrifice, such a sad and somber site.

Tattered towns torn asunder,

Trembling hands tightly tether.

Hope hangs heavily in heavy hearts,

Constant cacophony, cruelty in the ...

Beneath the beams of the bright moonlight,

brave and bold, he fights the fight.

Clashing with claws of creatures concealed,

courageously he carves through the cursed field.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,

with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,

he thrusts his fists against the posts,

and still insists he sees the ghosts....

Small stars in the sky

Are still sad smiles

Speaking softly in a safe space.

Scared to show significant soft spots for fear of sneers

So, search silently for the stars in your sky.

Small smiles are still significant for small stars.

Soon, with specks of kindness, small stars smile....

Broccoli and cheese

Dinner rolls

Cranberries

Casseroles

Lighting up the Christmas tree

Stockings on the fireplace

Everybody is happy

Holding hands and saying grace

Gifts with bows

Christmas lights

Sweet potatoes

Starry nights

Christmas spirit in the air

Carolers singing merry tunes

Smiling faces everywhere

Holidays are coming soon

Christmas songs on the radio

Dinner simmering on the stove

Snow...

Little lilacs love

Calming clouds above

Green grass below

Shimmering flakes of snow

Red Roses reach

People passing preach

Bushes bound with thorns

Women walking warn

The gods give us gifts

Minds make mischief

Folks feel free

Talking to the trees...

Liar, liar, lives in leisure

Cuts all corners carelessly

Liar, liar, lacking limits

Coolly, cruelly, calm and keen...

…attributes, always belying belief in the beauty of consistent consonants and consonance,

Creating dramatic, detailed depictions of eerily-earthy enjoyment,

Forever floundering fondly from gray-matter given generously,

Having had hardly the headspace initially intended for justly jubilant jocularity,

Keeps a kinetic kaleidoscope living,

Long-last lauded,

Metaphorically-metered in the muck and mir...

An absolute agony

Storms in me,

Physically pulling prayers

My mouth barely remembers how to speak.

The prayers lack power,

Pure poison promises

I’m losing my mind,

I may never bounce back, just break.

I used to think

That love could fix

Whatever had been broken

Until I watched divorce divide the family I held dear....

Songs of sad stories

Light our long paths

Through thick woods

Of self salvaging.

The shadow of our solitary shelter

Shifted our unsettled souls

Into the spotlight

We must make up for our misdeeds

To others,

To ourselves.

We judged unjustly,

We withheld our worth,

refused rest,

granted little grace.

We can…

Recover our compassion,

Renew our neighbors,

Uplift our love for life....

Bitter sweet berries

Mind in the merry

Thinking about what’s going on inside

I wanna be alright don’t gotta cry

But Sometimes i wanna die

It’s eating me inside

They’re telling me lies

It’s better on the other side...