Tag Archives: darkness

A Journey Stone

Posted on April 14, 2020 by 1sojournal

NaPoWriMo 2020: Day 14 She emerges from darkness that named her. This woman resting against wild cat that protects her. When he speaks, she listens. Leans into his words, making them her own. Forming them into poems, hoping that others … Continue reading →

Posted in A Journey Stone | Tagged darkness, journey stones, listen, poems, protection, wild cat, woman | 4 Comments

Brief Life Span

Posted on May 24, 2017 by 1sojournal

For Poets United: Mid-Week Motif – Flower http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Brief Life Span Stood by watching you bloom delicate petals slowly unfolding from tightly curled bud of your fragile in-most being. Sunlight loved blue of your eyes when laughter fell like soft … Continue reading →

Posted in Brief Life Span | Tagged darkness, embrace, life span, Mid-Week Motif, Poets United, standing by, watch | 12 Comments

Carpetbaggers

Posted on January 25, 2017 by 1sojournal

For Poets United Midweek Motif: Change http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Carpetbaggers Change is upon us. We knew it was coming, yet are not prepared. Couldn’t have dreamed of these possibilities, so scream at nightmares unleashed. Waste energy girding belts already tightened, watching enlightenment … Continue reading →

Posted in Carpetbaggers | Tagged Carpetbaggers, change, darkness, hope, Light, Midweek Motif, nightmare, Poets United, possibilities | 12 Comments

Take Back

Posted on November 27, 2016 by 1sojournal

For Creativity Challenge Day 7: Opposition http://1sojournal.wordpress.com For Poets United: Poetry Pantry #330 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Take Back I am an old woman living alone, remembering. That night, so long ago, when the women on campus participated in a ‘walk about’ to … Continue reading →

Posted in Take Back | Tagged candle, creativity challenge, darkness, fear, opposition, Poetry Pantry, poetry prompts, Poets United, Predator, Take Back, together | 13 Comments

We Dare Not Acquiesce

Posted on November 20, 2016 by 1sojournal

For Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #86 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ voice, sing, trills, banal, primal, dumb, without, means, noise, plaintive, joyful, words For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #275 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com feed, work, easy, flat, pattern, lies, drop, keys, righteous, ends, call, hold For Poets United: … Continue reading →

Posted in We Dare Not Acquiesce | Tagged acquiesce, darkness, ignorance, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, violence, voices, wordles, work | 18 Comments

Indivisible

Posted on November 16, 2016 by 1sojournal

Poets United: Midweek Motif, invisibility http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Indivisible The words that for so long have been the fence posts of my journey have disappeared. Somehow become invisible. Slipping away on streams of feelings which no longer have names, let alone meaning. … Continue reading →

Posted in Indivisible | Tagged darkness, divisive rhetoric, ignorance, invisible, Mid-Week Motif, Poets United, words | 13 Comments

Classifications

Posted on October 30, 2016 by 1sojournal

The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #272 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ still, busy, curl, silvery, bowl, class, echoing, drop, jealous, velvet, oil, light Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #83 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ insectivores, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, lamb, feed, suck, chew, spring, anything, know, sometimes Poets United: Poetry Pantry #326 … Continue reading →

Posted in Classifications | Tagged darkness, feeders, memory, movement, Poetry Pantry, promise, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, wordles | 19 Comments

Finding Home

Posted on February 17, 2013 by 1sojournal

For Poets United Poetry Pantry http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Finding Home Spent years, running around outside myself, hands outstretched like blind woman brailing outer walls of soul, seeking secret hole, some sort of entrance. Heard whimper of wounded child, followed that sound until … Continue reading →

Posted in Finding Home | Tagged brailing soul, darkness, finders/keepers, journal, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, rewrite, snippets, wounded child | 11 Comments

Unfound Epiphany

Posted on September 23, 2010 by 1sojournal

My apologies to my friends at Big Tent Poetry. It’s been a rough week with lots of unexpected bumps and curves. Not a good time to try on a poetic form I’ve never heard of and am mostly ignorant … Continue reading →

Posted in Unfound Epiphany | Tagged Big Tent Poetry, blown fuse, bumps and curves, darkness, elusive, enlightenment, haibun, poem, scent of lilacs, thoughts flit | 27 Comments

The Call

Posted on June 25, 2010 by 1sojournal

for Big Tent Poetry weekly Monday Prompt http://bigtentpoetry.org/2010/06/monday-promptjune-21/ This is my first attempt to use a Big Tent Poetry prompt. The prompt was an exercise in writing a stream of consciousness list about something you wanted to write about, but … Continue reading →

Posted in The Call | Tagged darkness, end of words, god, hermit, inner being, Mythic piece, pebble, poet, Poetry prompt, prophet, small speckled hen | 49 Comments