I don’t even
have to

think about

it

you are

at long last
water

me

I’m
falling open
star-like

with you,
lotus

#9forNavaratri
#poetry

a heart is breaking, it is quiet

outside
a tree falling
rings and rings but
no one hears you
crow keeping
wander border to
border
between lack
and harmony
when
words are wisdom seeming
only
our selves
to rely upon
and we haven’t been
sleeping

#vss365
#9forNavaratri
#whistpr
#poetry

I do not understand your faith
but I understand your heart is
is an engine
your body is a clock
your beautiful body is a powerful,
drumming analog
your mind is a fragile, glass case.

#9forNavaratri #faith
#poetry #prompt

You don’t think you are
anything special
but
when you grow tired and are close to me
I see clearly
the first tree—a bright, new apple
shining resplendently,
my hands shake
uncontrollably

—hope
you
don’t notice.

#9forNavaratri #resplendent
#vss365 #hand
#poetry

Bone music

piped into our office
the pain-pushers
smiling
Brillo-pad smiles—
One side
golf, of course,
rough green other
jester-yellow,
super-flame-absorbent
we’s—
are
pretending to be
compassion
deaf.

#vss365 #flame
#9forNavaratri #compassion
#whistpr #jester
#poetry

When she was young, Shakti cried sunflower seeds. She’d crack open earth with her eyes, plant and water them with thoughts. Once she was a woman, Shakti wove a sunflower veil to peer into the future. She breathed in its dark shape and let it go as petals.

#9forNavaratri
#vss365 #flashfiction

My mind is a region
has its weather
cloud-sense
here
I trace the bark
of an elephant’s foot
of the earth’s
pregnant curve,
elliptic
it speaks to me,
mammoth-eyed,
of gravel and dirt and fur,
before they both
vanish
and I decide
what they mean

#whistpr #gravel
#9forNavaratri
#poetry

Dawn broke #resplendent over the #station. But even the sky's orange-pink confections couldn't sweeten the bitter sting of her departure.
#9forNavaratri #whqcommunity #microflashmonday

I love writing challenges like #30Words30Days, #9ForNavaratri, #FuriousFiction and #Ship30For30 because their prompts get my writing going. As do competitions like #NotQuiteWritePrize and #TwistInTheTale.

If you know of any other prompt-driven writing challenges, let me know!