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Tag Archives: feelings
Rebirth
At her current age, strongly resists the mere idea of rebirth. Both thoughts and feelings whirl in wind of confusion. Twirling themselves into tightening knots of not possible. But finally slow to knit themselves into soft warm shawl that falls … Continue reading
Stray Thought 11
“It’s okay. I understand. You followed the words and they took you back to the very beginnings and that scared you. I’m here to remind you that fear is only a feeling, never a fact, and the words will always … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginnings, continue, fear, feelings, flutter, Micropoetry
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A World of Color
For Creativity Challenge Day 16: Color http://1sojournal.wordpress.com A World of Color Mine is a world of color, language and lines. Sometimes black words of hate spewed from mouth of strangers, tinted overall in red of passion engorged rage. One moment … Continue reading
Fear Diminished
For Creativity Challenge: Day 1 subject is fear http://1sojournal.wordpress.com Fear Diminished I am afraid. Feel tremble of earth beneath me, aware as it seeps upward through soles of feet, then climbs higher. Air is dark, heavy as lungs work … Continue reading
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Tagged 1sojournal, creativity challenge, diminish, fear, feelings, mind, stand together, together
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Hard Lesson
For NaPoWriMo: Day 7 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com Hard Lesson In a fever of misunderstanding I numbly sought receding horizon. A defining line that would mark difference between fact and feeling. It took years of hard work, studying, measuring, changing roles and clothes, … Continue reading
Posted in Hard Lesson
Tagged changing, facts, feelings, fluid feelings, illustration, NaPoWriMo, poem a day, Poetry prompt, two plus two
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Happy Birthday To Me
A very good friend sent me the link to this video almost two years ago. We had been friends for years, then lost contact for more. She knew I loved this song, but the video meant even more to … Continue reading
Posted in Happy Birthday To Me
Tagged Bday celebration, Christian The Lion, feelings, friendship, memories, music, Whitney Houston
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Escape Artist
Digging a hole deep enough to shelter, relax in shadows, no direct sunlight to blind eyes or cause leakage that might muddy softly blurred edges. Keeping colors safe, almost pastel but not quite. Time and space slowed to more … Continue reading
Posted in Escape Artist
Tagged blind eyes, colors, digging hole, direct sunlight, Escape Artist, feelings, pastels, poem, Poetry, rhythms, song lyrics
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Standing In The Gap
Standing In The Gap Canyon is a gap between two earthen faces. Would take a scientist to explain how time’s erosion and liquid life flowing, separated common ground once held by two stone faces. There is a gap between … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, between faces, canyon, daughter, desire, experience, father, feelings, free-form, friend, gaps, god, mother, physical faces, poem, son, spaces, Standing In The Gap, theory, tilting at windmills, wish, writing poetry
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Soul's Music 