When life is a question does anybody have an answer?

(When life is a question does anybody have an answer?)

What am I going to do with my life? he asks

Can you really answer that? she responds

Why can’t I just get on with my life?

What kind of a life do you want to get on with?

Can we take this in another direction?

What direction do you want to go?

Can I consider space?

Is space what you want to do with your life?

Can I be buried in space?

To be jettisoned into the universe?

Why not?

Do you want your body to expand twice its size?

That’s what would happen?

Can you see yourself frozen in space for millions of years?

What if I’m close to a star?

Do you want to burn to a crisp?

Why are you asking all these questions?

Do you really want an answer?

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NaPoWriMo Day 28 prompt to write a poem of questions.

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My Blanket

Quick the seasons were

in the time of pandemic

under a clear sky

caught up in futures

if we live or die here— who cares

know this for all days

that are shorter now

with the cold of winter coming

I want my blanket

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dVerse quadrille prompt on the word blanket

Dawn & Dusk

 

SKY was flushed

with crimson light

lining the horizon

draws out emotions

from clouds

soon to turn dark

their departure

makes for hope

of blushing dawn

while holding on

to colors before twilight

two sides of dawn & dusk

one then the other

 

 

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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word flush.

Four Questions

“Where can you find a bell that can ring in your dreams?” Pablo Neruda

Is there a water clock of life? The time goes on in dream and in your day so who can say what force drives you on? Is it the passage of time or in that moment when there is no time?

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dVerse prompt to build on a question. Just saw a water clock in Agora Athens so wondering about how water was used to drive time forward by hydraulics.

No Explanation

Earth rises over lunar scape

cell divides again and again

cosmic dusts travel

billions of miles long

there is no time

to explain this
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dVerse prompt on time

City of Rocks

out in the desert of New Mexico

a city of rocks

amazing to see

from near and far

it rose

by volcanic action

in a sea of hot brine

a city harder than concrete

testing time

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dVerse prompt to describe a city

Shell and Bone

Walk between the tide lines

Tracks haphazard then straight

run for miles northwest

into the windscape of dawn

Be the first to leave a mark

Find shell and bone

These fragments

left on the beach

will in time

become

sand

Ancient Words

I am fascinated by ancient words

words that were spoken

before there was writing

an Ugarit time capsule

before there was time

a footprint of God