Tag Archives: Deborah Koff-Chapin

In The Maw of Things

Posted on April 22, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 22 and for Big Tent Poetry Prompt: what would you shout down the street?    In The Maw of Things Yesterday, our traveler, like a child, wanted to run wild in street, yelling in huge capital … Continue reading →

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Step Back

Posted on April 20, 2011 by 1sojournal

NaPoWriMo – day 21 Step Back Rare days when our traveler is home but not in. Must step back from too much: chaos, words, people, stimulus. Has been known to allow inner child loose, to play with signs, symbols, letting … Continue reading →

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Sevenling (ever-burning fire)

Posted on April 20, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day20 Sevenling  (ever-burning fire) Ever burning fire fades, then flares within. Black ink burns current page, curling edges. Flames constantly wage struggle to bring light into darkness. Cooling watery depths hide layers where life abides. Tides creep … Continue reading →

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Map of Awareness

Posted on April 19, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 19 Map of Awareness Each night, or just before dawn, our traveler bends to daily task of note-taking. Jots and dashes, sometimes lines of verse, her private soul journey of telling words. Lets just past moments … Continue reading →

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Point of View

Posted on April 18, 2011 by 1sojournal

  For NaPoWriMo – day 18 And Brenda W’s Sunday Wordles – phrase, silver, scars, inept, forever, perfume, message, flattery, sprouting, crescendo, crude, and recounts. Point of View There are still some days when she feels inept, without exception. Not capable … Continue reading →

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Soul Seasons

Posted on April 17, 2011 by 1sojournal

  For NaPoWriMo – day17 Soul Seasons Finds certain satisfaction in owned rhythms, moving through seasons, finding singular pace in grace of each one: Winter’s withdrawal within. Spring’s rush to begin. Summer’s full active leisure. Autumn’s blush of fading fire. … Continue reading →

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Balance Between Caution and Risk

Posted on April 16, 2011 by 1sojournal

  For NaPoWriMo  – day 16   Balance Between Caution and Risk It was not as if she now lived without fear. That would be foolish. Already knew that some trepidation was essential to finite existence, often made difference between … Continue reading →

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What The Dragon Woman Knows

Posted on April 15, 2011 by 1sojournal

  NaPoWriMo – day 15   What The Dragon Woman Knows She  has been long afraid of many things. Each fear becoming boundary limits which held her fast to narrow landscape. Now freed, she reaches to embrace beauty, grace, knowledge, wisdom of … Continue reading →

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A Dragon Warrior’s Oath

Posted on April 14, 2011 by 1sojournal

  For NaPoWhiMo – day 14 A Dragon Warrior’s Oath Has seen him before, pacing slowly alongside her in dreams, just beyond shadows. Knows him to be fighter of dragons, using lance to right wrongs, strong warrior who never speaks. … Continue reading →

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Poems Alive In Bones

Posted on April 13, 2011 by 1sojournal

  For NaPoWriMo – day 13 Also For We Write Poems prompt: Almost A Poem http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ Poems Alive In Bones Sometimes as she walks, rhythms of her footsteps become open door to meditative state. Today, she is thinking about bones. … Continue reading →

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