#decemberpen

pattimouse:

Shallow
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #6 @tenthstreetmisc

In life we learn to breathe,
To feel that hesitation.
We have to become
The expected,
The sheep following
That shepherd to
The pastures edge.

Though the hill is too great
The climb more than we
Expect to find,
Still we follow behind.
Each individual lost
Becoming what society
Required…
Shallow.

pattimouse:

Helpless Drift
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #8 #mehwhoneedsorder @tenthstreetmisc

Hands tied,
The internal compass lied.
Life turned not up,
Nor down,
Slid sideways and
Turned around.

Caught up in the current,
No way to plan or prepare.
Held to being helpless
Just drifting everywhere.

pattimouse:

tenthstreetmisc:

Our DecemberPen challenge! We have prompts for each day for writing and art. We’d love to see you join us!

Apartment Door

©2017 By Patricia Harris

#December Pen challenge #1 #startedlate @tenthstreetmisc

In the moment of pride I

Wrestled with the urge

To push it back open,

That damned door.

The other side is the

First apartment

With my baby inside.

I know that this

Is normal,

Chicks grow,

Learn to fly on their own.

That doesn’t seem

To ease the hatred

I bear the door

That is saying that

I am not needed anymore.

pattimouse:

tenthstreetmisc:

Our DecemberPen challenge! We have prompts for each day for writing and art. We’d love to see you join us!

Lost song bird

©2017 By Patricia Harris

#December pen challenge #2 #startedlate

@tenthstreetmisc

Softly trilling

Memory willing,

Hints of what once was.

Once upon a windy day

The beauty under my window

Flew off into my memory.

Leaving me audibly

Hanging on

Merely memory.

pattimouse:

tenthstreetmisc:

Our DecemberPen challenge! We have prompts for each day for writing and art. We’d love to see you join us!

Last words

©2017 Patricia Harris

#December pen challenge #3 #latestart

@tenthstreetmisc

When all was finished

We said our peace,

Still left was the last thing

The words we all needed

To avoid.

Unspoken,

Easier to ignore…

Spoken

It becomes more real,

Concrete.

Unavoidable..

So delay the utterance

Delay the words

We neither want to say.

Last Words by Zane Hesting for the DecemberPen challenge.

Last Words by Alyssa Ermish for the DecemberPen challenge.

Lost Song Bird by Zane Hesting for the DecemberPen challenge.

Lost Song Bird by Stephanie Gardener for the DecemberPen challenge.

Apartment door by Zane Hesting for the DecemberPen challenge.