Do you miss me? I miss you. Last I saw you, head on my pillow, your face lit up my phone screen. They got the picture of you all wrong. – Teen drunk driver T-bones car, family of four rushed to hospital. – You made a joke of your senior year photo, you told theContinue reading “do you regret the headline photos?”
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January 28th, 2022/pirates on the high C’s
Today’s Prompt: What is on your music playlist right now? …uh. That’s it I’m drawing a blank. I don’t engage with music in the form of playlists. I just listen to the songs I feel like listening to at the moment. That’s it I’m drawing a blank, the smell’s quite rank in the sandbank whereContinue reading “January 28th, 2022/pirates on the high C’s”
January 27th, 2022/where the wild things thrive
Today’s Prompt: Where do you go when you need solitude? I’m not going to write my entire snarky reply I thought of for this prompt. My only snark here will be this: well, where do you go when you need air? Above water, genius. Breathe. Okay here’s a poem:) Find me where the wild thingsContinue reading “January 27th, 2022/where the wild things thrive”
January 25th, 2022/my heart runs of fire
Today’s Prompt: Write about what makes you feel strong. Heart. It runs of fire and water and rage and rain and wind and storms and lightning and Tears. Fears. In all my traveling, I have never found a mirror To my soul. In all my wanderings, I have never found a kindred spirit To myContinue reading “January 25th, 2022/my heart runs of fire”
January 17th, 2022/all the superpowers
Today’s Prompt: What is a superpower you’d love to have? I can’t pick. I’m too indecisive. So here’s a poem about all the super powers. Healing powers, rainbow towers, raising earthen golems, writing magic poems, taking flight, glowing bright, hands burning with fire, owning a war bard’s lyre, stealing life by a shadow knife, growingContinue reading “January 17th, 2022/all the superpowers”
January 15th, 2022/life advice tastes good with rice
Today’s Prompt: What is a life lesson you feel everyone can benefit from learning? “Absolutes” Dear stranger to my brain, Some things must be experienced to be understood, but not everything must be seen to be believed. Sometimes, I believe I see what I’ve never experienced– My trials draw near parallels to another’s pain andContinue reading “January 15th, 2022/life advice tastes good with rice”
January 13th, 2022/independent of dawn-dead dreams
Today’s Prompt: What does your ideal day look like? My ideal day doesn’t have a face, so I don’t know what it looks like. /end snark Honestly, that was my only idea about this prompt. I don’t know what my ideal day looks like, physical form or no. So here’s a poem about some non-idealContinue reading “January 13th, 2022/independent of dawn-dead dreams”
January 11th, 2022/courage rain
Today’s Prompt: What does it mean to live boldly? I live as bold as a raindrop. I gather my self in the troposphere until I accumulate bigger than my dust-fears, and I yield to earth’s gravity and I plummet ever so courageously. ***2nd poem*** This potion comes in three parts: One, the thumb thimbles toContinue reading “January 11th, 2022/courage rain”
January 9th, 2022/ink to the bees
Today’s Prompt: What do people incorrectly assume about you? (my train of thought upon seeing this prompt: “I don’t know what people assume about me, it’s in their heads.” “Ooh, what if you knew what was in people’s heads?” “Ooh let’s write a poem about telepathy.” So here we are.) Thoughts don’t have edges theContinue reading “January 9th, 2022/ink to the bees”
January 6th, 2022/our heroes are dead
Today’s Prompt: Who is someone that inspires you and why? I have a superpower, I raised myself on the milk of my own dreams. When I was in 1st grade, I wanted to be an engineer like my parents. I knew engineers designed roads, but I didn’t know what designing roads was. When I wasContinue reading “January 6th, 2022/our heroes are dead”
Jordyn Saelor 