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To Build a Fire
The original word for breath was “inspire”, to breathe in.. But that breathmust be released to allow for another so that life might continue. Itall seems so very simple, doesn’t it? So what, you might ask,does this have to do … Continue reading
About The Dead Woman at the Border
The dead woman didn’t know she was dead. Didn’t know she’d stopped breathing, there at the border where cold sea meets fire. The dead woman couldn’t quite remember when it had happened. When her dreams had become no more than … Continue reading
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Tagged border, cold sea, dead woman, demands, depression, dreams, expectations, fire, steam
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Fire Within
Surprised by this re-ignition of fire within head, heart, and belly, she pauses for a moment. Hears cackle of laughter from her old woman’s lips as she watches tendrils of smoke rise up to surround her. Thinks about that old … Continue reading
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Tagged age, belly, cackle, experience, fire, head, heart, re'ignition, smoke, wisdom, youth
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About Creativity
NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 11 Remember when as children, ideas were as prolific as dandelions? That is the fire of creativity built in, and always burning. Voice of need to heed its call, to express the seed of what lies within. … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, fire, heal, ideas, prolific, to live, urge, voice, within
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Bonfire
NaPoWriMo 2020: Day 10 Perhaps a silly wish but I long to sit near a backyard bonfire. Watching the fire dance constantly changing faces, taking a chance to break free. Small sparks of hope rising in dark night taking flight … Continue reading
Burnt Sacrifice
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #83 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ And for November PAD Challenge: Image #18 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Burnt Sacrifice Unless mistaken, found peculiar beauty in silence we offered for words gone wrong that never belonged on paper. Five faces distorted, softened in … Continue reading
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Tagged burnt offerings, fire, November PAD Challenge, photograph, sacrifice, Sunday Whirl, visual prompts, wordle
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