Fortune (Poetry Prompt from Sept 14)

Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 149 (Sept. 14)

We were instructed to write a fortune cookie poem!

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/wednesday-poetry-prompts-149


Fortune

Walking with silent steps
   you go unnoticed. 

~HLM

Poetry Prompt #148 (Sept 7, 2011) 

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/wednesday-poetry-prompts-148

We were instructed to write a remix poem.  I chose one of my own ... and am not sure how well I like it.  But, here it is!

REMIX: 

I Don't Need You

You call to me

I hear you, but choose to step away

You now look back at me

But I can see through you

Your eyes are still empty

Completely void

You offer no acceptable human emotion

Your arm extends

You offer your hand

I have awoken

No longer frightened of my dreams

What you offer is nothing I need

I sleep easy

as your demon now haunts you

I woke up

and reconfigured life

Yes, I left you.

That was real

And you realize how empty you are without me.

~HLM

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Remixed from:

Empty Fool

I call your name

An echo answers

I look into your eyes

You don’t look back

You stare through me

Do you even see me?

Your vision is empty

I reach out

Your figure fades

Was I dreaming?

Were you ever there?

Your structure is empty.

A nightmare; is that what I am living?

Was your presence only a shadow filled with demon eyes?

Wake me up! 

Wake me up from this nightmare!

No, I am not dreaming.

This was real.

Your soul is simply empty. 

~HLM

Out of this World!!! Another poem.

Latest - and late - poetry prompt. 

#147: Out of this world poem

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/wednesday-poetry-prompts-147

Space Bound

I am on a rocket ship made of clay

Molded by illusions

Space bound I journey

Colors fill my eyes

My mind wanders

My heart ponders

Starlit sky

Scraping at my swollen heart

Filled with ice cold emotion

And iridescently lit dreams

Rocket me around the moon

Reach into the darkest depths of my mind.

~HLM

Always late!

I think I am only behind about 10 Poetry Prompts (only!). 

Today I am working on Prompt #146: an "Everything is against you" Poem. 

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/wednesday-poetry-prompts-146

Blocked

My pen won't write good words
The paper won't stay in place
I've tried
and I've tried
But I cannot write this poem!

~HLM

My Letter to the Editor

I submitted a letter to the editor and it was in the Sunday, October 9, 2011 edition of the Minot Daily News. Please follow the link to take a look.

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My poem of the day!

Where did all of this come from?

What I should say and what I won’t say mingle.

The words converse and echo

They yell and they scream

Damn words!  The storm brewing in my head… raining down.

I cannot make this stop.

No shelter for my self-induced storm.

This too shall pass?

Doubtful.

Indecent prospect I fear

Wishful thinking

Shameful thinking

Run the wheel down

Make it turn no more!

Infatuated

Curious

Confused as hell!

~ Holly

Poetry Prompt #145 (and I am late as usual)

August 17, 2011
For this week’s prompt, write an escape poem. The poem could about someone or something that is thinking of escape, has escaped, or has lost someone or something that has escaped. And remember: Escape can be a physical thing but also emotional, psychological, etc.

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/wednesday-poetry-prompts-145

My VERY late attempt at the escape poetry prompt. August 17, 2011

Eggshells crack as I walk through the house

Tension forces a web around me.

Cutting through all of the bullshit

With a knife is near impossible

Escape reality

Escape today

Return tomorrow anew. 

Converse in time

Lay it on the table

Toss out the meaningless

Trash what remains

Escape

Breathe           

Go forward.

~HLM