Today’s prompt is to write about sports. Since this is Texas, I knew I wanted to write about high school football games. Friday Night Lights It is the magic hour. Letter jacket cats come out to play With mousy girls huddled In giggling blankets. They wish for stolen kisses Under a cave of metal bleachers [...]

Today’s prompt was to write a love or anti-love poem. The Old Battle Axe (Love) I spent my early years Inside a glass case On display as much A warning as a promise Until you broke through And reached your hand Into the shatterings To grasp my body blade We ran together Into the fire [...]

Today’s prompt is to write a poem about the morning. Those who know me know my aversion to fairy tale princesses, much in the vein of Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella.” This is a bit of what’s in my head, in a stream of consciousness sort of way. Share

Today’s prompt is to write a poem about judging.   Born This Way Your compass mouth Spins needle words Toward my stationary self I am target North You assume the orientation Of my eyes and every other part Are written on the surface Of my map body You only see tectonics Shifting at the mercy [...]

Impossible Bottle You pull my strings with tweezer hands Bending flattened pieces up on hinges To make me dimensional like a vessel Launched inside a glass shell That holds the echo of the sea Share

Today’s prompt is to write a poem that begins with the title “Let’s ________.” I immediately thought of that old game show, Let’s Make a Deal. My favorite part was when the guy would hand out cash if someone had a random object in their purse. It made me think of how women, especially mothers, [...]

Today’s prompt is to write a poem about a life event.   Engagement the moon gem rises from his hand like a lily rooted in his bended knee refusing to bloom under any light other than her starry eyes yes Share

Today’s prompt is to write about a favorite regional cuisine. It made me think of the many times I would meet my childhood friend, Anne, for lunch at Bubba’s in Virginia Beach. She always ordered the house special: She Crab Soup. She was like that, a little braver than me. This one’s for her. She Crab Soup I was [...]

Today’s prompt is to write a sci-fi or fantasy poem. My poem is inspired by the ancient Chinese myth about how rivers were created by dragons who sacrificed themselves so that people would have water to survive.   River Born It is time. She stretches each claw until her scales ripple like liquid glass. She lays her [...]