Come to me, you wild beast, You whirling storm of beauty Battered, scarred, bruised and teased You grew beyond majesty Wide, cold skies weep for you In pain, relief and sorrow Rage rumbles, deep and true No gods will reign tomorrow Nor hold you trapped in caves Where man’s faithless, dank pride grips Where the ceaseless lie staves Off a small apocalypse Come, fly free, fly stronger You’ve broken stone and cruel fate Breed your courage longer Your kind, for you, yet await Quarter Crazy Marathon Quarter 3 - 2020 Prompt 6 - 2pm EST Prompt #6: Picture Prompt
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No Pressure
Relaxation (i remind myself) is the key to Beauty timed tests and pressures might create infinite diamonds (but only over time) fissures cracks flaws (We must realize) are the inevitable result of TOO MUCH TOO FAST TOO SOON There are bromides for everything Fences sat upon in great uncertainty As winds or breezes, ice or snow rain or sunshine fall As the sense of infinite plausibility wends round-and-round A fence to guard A carousel A barrier for safety or for holding back wishes? Draw strength from your uncertainty embrace the miasmic Nonsense that wakes you stalls you shields you and realize that in the exchange - in the embrace - in the reverse lifestyle (from all you’ve been urged) YOU DEVOTE YOUR LIFE TO BEAUTY Quarter Crazy Marathon Quarter 3 - 2020 Prompt 5 - 1pm EST Prompt #5: Use at least 8 (or all) of the following words in your poem: fence, uncertainty, devote, ice, draw, reverse, nonsense, exchange, infinite, relaxation, wind, bathtub, lifestyle, guitar, realize
Blue-and-Red
Blue sand underfoot
Chilled children’s drinks drain away
Boiling crabs blush bright red
Quarter Crazy Marathon
Quarter 3 - 2020
Prompt 4 - 12pm EST
Prompt #4: Write a poem about blue sand and red crabs
**This prompt came from Writerswrite.com
Silver Linings
There were so many moments shared with you Long walks through Montreal, Toronto, too Night drives on cobbled streets in Buffalo And never, then, did others know of you I shirk to show the bruises, faded, old And gone from view; so much I never told ‘A silver lining,’ ‘True Love Conquers’ - so I lived, trusted your eyes of em’rald-gold I trusted in your reason and your mind, Expected love - but never love maligned The whirlwind I became to remain free Upheld, punished - still, through all, I was blind A silver lining brightened every day But not from you and that tumult’ous play The brightness, love existed but in me Your bitter words spawned with me dark affray We should have parted, been no more than friends If but we wished to find harmon’ous ends Yet, all I have now is a memory Devoid of hopes to, one day, make amends With no way back, with truth, I move ahead Peek back proves I, that silver lining led And I, my own responsibility Free from the man I wish I’d never wed Quarter Crazy Marathon Quarter 3 - 2020 Prompt 3 - 11am EST Music Prompt - Response to My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit Photo credit: Pexels Free Photos
A Sonnet in Pink
’Tis true, I never thought to think, to dream, To find the words while crafting this, midstream; And yet, t’was but one color that did seem To reach, inspire, set my mind agleam: Soft, cotton-candy clouds in summer skies; The bright, exotic skin that dragons prize; The flesh that lovers yearn to tantalize; A sweet explosion calls to butterflies - All wild, soft or misty gleam is theirs. How can one dare to own, when the world shares, When all of femininity are heirs, When cyan, tangerine burst fiercer flares? And still, I find I cannot double-think The myriad, effluent hue of pink.
Quarter Crazy Marathon Quarter 3 - August 15, 2020 Prompt 2 - 10am EST Write a Sonnet Photo credit: Pexels Free Photos
numbers divided
five days ago i wrote to you wishing I’d hear from you three weeks ago you wrote to me but, one word will never do nine years ago we scened but once i fell so hard for you eight years age-difference seemed zero there was none one could do in all that time and all these years i never wished from you to part and i will say this honestly: i couldn’t muster a fresh start t'was hardly fair to you or me - what rules a lover’s heart? when memories, day-terrors shook, took hold, our mind and lives we thwart and dismay now is lasting grief so little left, have we to show from years of love of dreams dreamt well shoved into corners, urged to grow this madness left of why we split of i insisting that you’d go was spawned of love for, split we were now, negative is all i know
Quarter Crazy Marathon
Quarter 3 – Saturday, August 15, 2020
Prompt 1 – 9am EST
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