Tag: spilled thoughts

Prompt Day 3

Oh this land of my growth

Of child and adulthood both,

Fertile fields and damp springs

Your dewy air to everything clings.

Smelling of equal parts manure and marijuana

You’re rich with flora and fauna,

The valley where the lake was drained

It’s residue leaving soil darkly stained.

How expert your fields

For the weather never yields

And yet you open up an angle obtuse

Spouting forth such lovely produce.

You grow and you grow

The rate becoming less slow

Others learning what I’ve always known

The truth engraved inside my bone.

This land so moist and green

This land so yearning and keen,

With vigor in the air

And mountains everywhere.

It will raise one strong

And so I belong

In this strangely sized municipality

With all of its vitality.

– Vagabond Prophet

Prompt Day 2


Snap shatter crack!

Crunch underfoot in great big boots!

Three trillion pieces scattered across the room,

Like the pieces of me buried in my past.

I never know what to say,

Believe it or not I do NOT have a way with words.

Only collecting thoughts and shaping them

Into something relevant,

Long after they’re relevant.

Say something anyways you ought

Nonsensical no matter,

If it’s loud enough we’ll get it one day.

Speak out just like I haven’t,

Yours is a story that we need to hear.

Forget the whispers of deceit

Forget the shackles of your prison

Forget the people that took your power away.

Destroy the silence with the bomb that is your truth!

– Vagabond Prophet

Prompt Day 1

Ahh yes it’s not exactly amazing

But it helps sometimes.

I’ll tell you my secret

How I am as firm and solid as I seem.

Take my hand I’ll guide you past

The smoke and the mirrors,

To this locked wooden box

With a small jar inside.

It’s my weatherproofing

I spread it on every morning

Head to toe

Ankle to earlobe spread evenly.

Endurance of any trial a piece of cake,

Winter? Easy

Sadness? Doable.

Loss of job? No problem.

A crippling fear that every damn thing I’ll ever try in my whole damn life will never amount to anything and by the end of it just be a younger looking version of my dad? I can deal with that too.

I don’t usually part with such a secret,

But since you’re asking

That’s my secret power.

– Vagabond Prophet

Drove across the line for fuel
Saving thirty cents per litre,
If I save it long enough
I might go to the theatre.

It’s getting harder and harder
To get earth to donate blood
Soon I’ll need a boat
To sail upon a flood.

Vagabond Prophet

Wood and nails
Hammer made rails
Climb just to climb.

Ascending so high
So far with each try,
And so far to fall.

Build kingdoms just to watch them fall
Have children and then see them crawl
Experience the best teacher.

So this castle though broken
Is of learning a grand token.
Go on and do great things, whoever you are.

– Vagabond Prophet

I don’t speak toddler fluently but I’ll try my best to translate.

Beauty is mine to hold
Embodied in my hair of gold,
My daddy tells me so
As he watches my dances.

I spin and spin
To my favourite songs,
Spin so fast as to
Alter the course of the earth
From around the sun
To around the Son.

Who else could make a beauty such as mine?
Who else could make a grin with such shine?
I know this for certain
For my daddy told me so.

– Vagabond Prophet

Medicine

Some poisons are sweet to taste

But destined to invade,

Some medicines are bitter to the tongue

Though whole again you’ll be made.

Though it’s true not all invasions are evil

And medicine is not food

It’s going to take all your fight

To combat this blight.

Ooh to sort one’s thoughts out

Question each and every one,

It’s grueling and exhausting

If you give up I don’t blame you.

It’s less like finding a needle in a haystack,

More like finding the needle in a stack of needles,

The one with ill intent.

Do you know where to start?

First avoid any natural tendency

And see if your feet find better ground,

Then walk into the light

No matter how much it hurts.

– Vagabond Prophet