Writer’s Digest PAD 2014 – Lana Marie Walker

Future

It is coming soon
Singulahilarity
Time of cosmic joke
Hold fast to your levity
Popcorn and Coca-Cola

Prompt: Write a future poem

They’re all the rage
teenie-weenie houses

most a mish-mash of
metal and glass

to keep out the
riff-raff I s’pose

livin’ small in
Hobson-Jobson Ranch

Prompt: Write a shelter poem.

He was certifiably insane,
that man in the window.

Blood was everywhere,
and I mean everywhere.

The mood and the air,
they were heavy, so heavy.

Hardly anyone talked,
except for that man.

He had witnessed everything,
and had things to say.

So many things that happened
day after day at the slaughterhouse.

Prompt: Write a violent poem and/or peaceful poem
Image credit: Trapped by Aditya Doshi – Source

Her eyes lit up
like a blown-out candle

Racing slowly
up the long descent
into the dark pit

She headed
toward the sky

Prompt: Write a message poem.

Image credit: Candle Smoke. Source

Caught in a rush of wind
it swirls and rises
then gently spirals
down toward the river

Another gust nudges it
over a rock
then another rock
and into the
cool choppy water

It swirls again
this time with
less grace but
still in harmony
with the flow

Once more it spins
joining with others
just like it
creating a colorful
carpet rushing over
jagged stones

Hours later
fifty miles farther
it comes to rest
torn and tattered
but fully alive

Prompt: A voyage poem

Back and forth
up and down
her little head moves
tracing the arc
of the rainbow

Staring intently
at each side
she cannot tell

Really

Where it begins
or where it ends

Day 1 Prompt – Beginning poem or ending poem