Every year for the last few years, I have written a poem to mark Tanabata. Here is this year’s installment. I know the old saying goes something like that but won’t we always need the moon— the moon that breaks through the clouds while the stars continue to hide? the moon that illuminates the surface [...]
In Western Washington, we tend to feel that summer weather doesn’t really begin until July 5th. Until then, it tends to be rainy, cool, and sort of gloomy. Like today… I don’t knowwho’s directing this picturebut I think I want my money back I meanthe good guys keep losingthe bad guys never go to jail [...]
Hour twelve, from the image prompt: Ultimately it is the center around which everything revolves slowing quickening sometimes skipping or stuttering but always relentless— from start to finish We may fall out of step or go astray but we always come back Because the drum is everything 17:47, 25 June 2022 The original post is [...]
Hour eleven poem, based on the image prompt: Limbs entwined for all to see— a happy tree Photo by Deborah Dalton 16:13, 25 June 2022 The original post is at https://thepoetrymarathon.com/kevinjoconner/2022-poetry-marathon-hour-11 Don’t forget to check out the other poems! Wishes sometimes have consequences is available—order now from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences If they [...]
Hour ten poem, based on the image prompt: I don’t have to open my eyes It’s enough that we breathe the same air see the same sky stand on the same ground I see you I feel you I know you I believe in you Whatever else happens now this moment is perfect Photo by rajat [...]
Hour nine poem, based on the prompt: Whatever happened to Tang? Do they still make Tang? Supposedly it was what the astronauts drank I believed it at the time and wondered if they felt cheated because they didn’t have grape Tang yet when they went to the moon I used to mix the orange and [...]
Hour eight poem, based on the prompt: When the train reaches the tunnels the sound changes the scene outside the window changes to shades of black punctuated by the occasional sign or signal Attention shifts from outside to inside I open a beer, open my journal and write down thoughts I will soon forget After [...]
Hour seven poem, based on the prompt: Light and shadow make some things I recognize and some things I don’t Some make light to blind Some make shadows to hide Some smash shadow and light together to obliterate the edges Without edges it’s harder to find all the pieces and complete the picture Welcome to [...]
Hour six poem, off-prompt: Off prompt and apropos of nothing what happened to the irresistible force and the immovable object after they met? 11:15, 25 June 2022 The original post is at https://thepoetrymarathon.com/kevinjoconner/2022-poetry-marathon-hour-6 Don’t forget to check out the other poems! Wishes sometimes have consequences is available—order now from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences [...]
Hour five poem, from the prompts: Wine glass— empty Satchel— packed Nail— hammered Space— blocked out Hardback— set aside There’s no time for reading Vines have consumed the oak and strangled its roots Now they’ve come for the castle But the fortress has emptied its occupants taken to the pavement and to the courts, if [...]
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