Tag Archives: Deborah Koff-Chapin

April PAD Challenge: Day 25

Posted on April 25, 2017 by 1sojournal

Running Low Like a runner seeing the finish line unconsciously slows down, I feel the heaviness in my limbs, the desire to be done with this madness of endless words, day after day. And like that same runner, pull air … Continue reading →

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Poets Consortium Two – An Introduction

Posted on February 17, 2014 by 1sojournal

For We Write Poems: We wordle #7 http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com Contributors and their words: Rosyln: blood, life, soul Annell: instrument, tear, flesh Misky: code, written, aim Jules Paige: secrets, fortune, gift Marian: petition, needs, innocence Elizabeth: silence, thundered, subdued Benjamin (Poetry Shack): … Continue reading →

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Within The Poem

Posted on April 29, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – final day    Within The Poem Our traveler knows, whole point of Journey is to find, possess, bring back magic elixir: healing potion, notion of truth to mend whatever is bent in ordinary world. Has only words, … Continue reading →

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At Center

Posted on April 28, 2011 by 1sojournal

NaPoWriMo – day 29 And for Big Tent Poetry prompt: what’s at center?  At Center Soul traveler knows journey is wending its way toward ending. Remembers faces, all the places she has been. Old friends and new seem to circle … Continue reading →

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Trilogy In Red

Posted on April 27, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 28     Divided heart bleeds quietly into darkness.      Lava bursts from center of black stone.   Card 111, Gallery 2   Creative soul fire births connective flame to belly, heart and mind.   … Continue reading →

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Traveling Hand Maid’s Heartstone

Posted on April 26, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 27       Traveling Hand Maid’s Heartstone Spirit bird has shown her that home may have many meanings: Abode, domicile, dwelling, habitation, station, residence, nest, roost, perch, quarters, housing, a roof over head, lodgings. Might … Continue reading →

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Story of The Spirit Bird

Posted on April 25, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 26 Story of The Spirit Bird She remembers, long ago, first time spirit bird came to her. Small diner, on lunch break, thoughts slow, low and sluggish. Looked up to see what no one else could … Continue reading →

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Xerophilous

Posted on April 25, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 25 and for Brenda’s Sunday Wordle: cheap, tissue, pinwheels, diminished, creep, eternal, tattoos, steal, quenching, replenish, piquant, squeeze, sharp   Xerophilous … I wondered if only plants could be xerophilous      or if people could be, … Continue reading →

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Geode Soul

Posted on April 24, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 24   And if the many sayings of the wise Teach of submission I will not submit But with a spirit all unreconsiled Flash an unquenched defiance to the stars.  __Adelaide Crapsey, Saranac Lake, 1913 __quoted … Continue reading →

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Old Truth

Posted on April 23, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 23     Old Truth Our traveler meets individuals every day, who turn away from light. Not because of choice, but rather something misaligned over time and never mended. Longs to tell them: Hidden away face … Continue reading →

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