We hadn’t eaten yet.

by Bob Marcacci

We hadn’t eaten yet.

There was a problem at the airport,

All noise and lines.

Angela stayed in San Francisco.

Vito and I left without her.

Vito cried

When he realized she wasn’t going with us.

I cried

Explaining it to him in a way

A four-year-old could understand.

It was hard to understand at forty.

We held hands

When we landed in Doha,

The first time we saw land in Doha.

My ears popped.

Vito turned to me.

He asked if everyone lived in sand houses.

“They’re all brown,” he said looking out the window.

I said, “I don’t know.”

We didn’t know

How hot it was in July.

We were finally here.

by Mohamed Zehni Khairullah

Alphabetical order story

Baked and made like a delicious muffin

Crusted with chocolate caramel and peanut

Dried on the sun and it is ready

Eaten by a chubby kid starving the death

Factoring an equation was the way he chopped it

Gathered his stuff and went outside

Hot weather made his lips dry

“I loved the muffin” that’s what he said

Jelly strawberry jam was placed in a sandwich

Killed it with one bite and it is gone

Lemonade was his dream now

Moon light appeared and still walking outside

Narrator to tell him a story was hard to find

Opened a heavy bag and suddenly found

Pond with fishes and ducks

Quarter past 10 was the time

Rested for a bit and then continued his journey

Stuttered for a bit and did not speak a word

Turtles started to appear from that pure pond

Umbrella was carried by it

Vibration action led his body to shake

Wallet fell down and got lost

X-ray vision used to find the wallet

Yawning and almost fell a sleep

Zipo lighter helped him find his way

Write a Found Love Poem / Story

Write a poem or story about love using the words from a book in the library.

It has been said

that it is a net,

a cultivated plant,

a habit,

most remarkable

concept,

an engraved motif.

But, It could be

curiosity,

anticipation,

a heart beat

a thousand excuses 

to linger, talk

a religion.

Words taken from the book Number by Midhat Gazalé.

primitive roots
relatively prime little circles
relationships
in other words
residue sequence beads
preceded by x
in Arabic
may satisfy expression

in light
of an uninterrupted fragment
you eventually reach
a point God made
exhaustion of an infinite
knotted rope

Mornings. Nights?
Days. Years.
Nothing changed.
Everything changed.

I do not know myself.

I have no energy
to pluck the cactus
out of the ground.
Plant seeds.

Grow anything
unprickly,
that swings in the breeze,
wilts without water.

He liked cactus.

Now that he's gone
into an eternal somewhere,
I like watering them.
Drowning them.

Dictionary Haiku

Write a haiku poem using a random word from the dictionary.

Modelled after a Japanese form, a haiku poem is comprised of 17 syllables divided among three lines: five in the first line, seven in the second line, and five in the third line.

Monkeys are screaming
Inner conflicts through jungles
Banana hunting

--

Depressed man waiting
Remarkable winter wet rain
Depressed man again

--

Love, love broken heart
Summer is back, love again
Tears fell, rivers dry

by Mohamedzehni Azme Khirallah

Rain-washed trees dance off
protracted summer sand storms.
Distant memories.

father snores in bed
responsible for Winter
where he is dreaming

Monsters under the bed
Lookout it will come out and
You're gonna be really dead

by Fatima Mutar Al-Kuwari

Sun was my mother
Green, yellow, white, my color
Said, painful, my feeling
From remote village a man
With His Chopper
He broken me
Hey you man, I was alone
Many years of अ month
A kid comes to me
You alive for ever
You on ever die, never
The tree of the knowledge
My dad earned from you
For paying school
Set front of you, learn, learn, and learn
Unless Support you
Monireh Ghaedi

ABP STUDENTS ♥

♥
Students at the ABP
know what they will be
as you can see
I will be a doctor

ABP Students

Don't judge the teacher from his face

and put your self

in his place

so the chapter will

follow the chapter

LRC is a room school

join the teacher and

you will be cool

just try and you will be sure

the semester will go faster!

Write About Art

Find a painting, photo, sculpture or other art piece and write a response to it. Write your response as a poem or a short story. Post the art with your response.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Trees Project for the
Foundation Beyeler and Borrower Park, Riehen, Switzerland, 1995.

oh meringue

oh dollop

oh dolly

my gift to you

are these trees

all wrapped and ready

to go nowhere

already