Beginnings Eyes Bright Small Feet Pattering On runways of green All creatures revel in Springtime * Prompt via Napowrimo.net: The Fib is a six-line form, the syllable count is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. Photo of my seedlings of tomatoes and milkweed visited by Ms Lizard. Continue reading NaPiWriMo Day 7
Down the Road She sits on the pier, bare toes dangling just below the water’s surface, denim fringe like blue anemones circling her thighs where his gaze rests. She is a lonely fourteen. He is a handsome twenty-one. A sudden summer breeze blows her blonde hair into a halo around her head, thunderclouds gather on the horizon like a premonition. He captures a tendril between his fingers, soft and yielding. Smiles. In one graceful movement she rises, walks away trailing a scent of Love’s Baby Soft – all he’ll ever have of her. * Prompt via Napowrimo.net : “Go to … Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 6
The Years Behind Life felt like a stepping stone on a never-ending journey, a succession of roadside attractions visited then forgotten. Lush green days decorated with minnowed creeks and rhubarb pied chins felt like forever, until it wasn’t. Gravity pulled, heavy as chains dragged through red clay. Unending hours surrounded by a leafy denseness, the world orbiting around an isolated center. Still, a flicker of hope for that pathway to starlight at the end of blue. * Prompt via The Wombwell Rainbow Image courtesy of Kerfe Roig Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 5
Unseeable, Unheard Under the bridge river water swallows soil slowly relentlessly dispassionate steel sucks whispers and murmurs voices lost in the lapping of things not forgotten people come and go come and go release their heartbroken runes in the earth stroke sorrowful-eyed faces graffitied on concrete crouch low, be invisible let it all go * Prompt via Napowrimo.net Photo via @SpaceLiminalBot Today’s prompt was to write a poem inspired by an image on Space Liminal Bot. Although this image doesn’t seem to be of a bridge, it reminds me of the space under the bridge over the Mississippi near my … Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 4
Warrior He walks the garden path Moss, stone, stream Pauses at the apex of the bridge Fingers his inro its lacquered smoothness Rubs the netsuki thumb a perfect fit between the hare’s ears Stilled in silent contemplation of the turtle’s wisdom * Today I chose the ekphrastic prompt from The Wombwell Rainbow which I discovered via my poetry sister, Merril. Three beautiful artworks were displayed and I chose this drawing of a netsuki by Kerfe Roig, another poetry sister, as my prompt. Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 3
Resisting a Steel Tsunami The cloud of her hair settling in a window, the cold blue of her eyes in the Mississippi heat, a guttural rumbling fading in the sleepy noise of small town life. She was a military brat and I was a transplant from parts all over in this town where almost everyone else had been born and raised. I didn’t even ask where her ticket would take her. For months after I thought of her every day, wondered if she was living the freedom she was seeking or trapped but too proud to call for help. I … Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 2
Polychrome I want to snuggle into your skin, see through your eyes, tilt your nose up to the sky & take a deep drought of your breath. Is your brain messaged by Octopus tentacles, millions of suction cups kissing your cerebellum? Is your understanding prickled by the toes of earth’s creatures? Is your empathy colored with chlorophyll and seed? We are sea and forest sky and flesh, we see differently, together a world made for all. * Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash Prompt via Napowrimo.net Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 1
I imagine you in the Costa Rican rain forest peering down the magnificance of your beak, the radiance of your plumage twinkling tree-stars in the mist, your strident calls reverbrating between the breasts of mountains, rolling through lush valleys of verdant loam. As a human you would be an artist preening before a canvas, sweating blues & greens, weeping purples and reds,rolling through multi-hued sheets brushed with forested liquid, face lifted above the treetops, fingers brushing stars. *** Na/GloPoWriMo Early bird Prompt via NaPoWriMo.net Image of Jadeite Bird Pendant via The Metropolitan Museum of Art Continue reading Bone & Keratin
I was just sitting on the patio enjoying the cool of late afternoon when I decided to visit The Oracle. She provided lots of words, as usual, but I created a brief verse, as is my way. Away. Then Back. elaborate shadows drive a sleepy beauty blue languid love sweats in arms of honey chants over skin raw as rain on the moon * Inspiration via magneticpoetry.com . Continue reading Away. Then Back.
As you may know, Twitter has a thriving writing community. It’s where I found many of the writers that I love to read. Today’s Creative Nonfiction selections have three writers I came to know through Twitter and two that are new to me, although I found their stories via Twitter links. For many years memoir and essay have been right up there as my favorite genres. I like the intimacy of memoir and the discovery of essay. All of the following touched me – in ways alike and different. Pat Foran and Cathy Ulrich share their stories of death and … Continue reading Creative Nonfiction That Will Drop Your Mouth Open
