Prompts

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding - not even that - no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.                                                                                                                   ...

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Prompt:  Write a poem about just allowing things to happen, particularly when you can do nothing about it. Maybe you have experienced such a time and in that period, you learned to let things be. Perhaps...

—after Alix Klingenberg  When the world is frenzied and cold and seems ruled by hate, turn to things that warm you—worn and faded animal-print sneakers, vegetable soup with beans you snapped last summer, simmering on the freshly-scrubbed kitchen stove, eyes sparkling,...

From town, go down the paved road towards Johnson’s Chapel for two miles until the road makes a sharp turn to the right, a large, white farm house in the bend, turn left on a dirt road through brambles and overgrown bushes until the air grows cooler and then drive a...

Forever is composed of Nows Prompt:  What are your "nows" that will make up your forever? A walk in the woods accompanied by mosquitoes and hot, sultry temperatures? A text from your daughter about your grands' baseball games? A husband calling to say he forgot to...

The beginning and end of one’s life is to draw closer to the fire.

Every crack is also an opening

Time will say nothing but I told you so

Earth’s crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes; The rest sit around it, and pluck blackberries