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Remembering Easter Sunday
NaPoWriMo 2020: Day 12 Easter Sunday always calls the color white to mind. Patent leather buckled shoes, gloves and hats to match for little girls. The priest’s robes embroidered with gold thread for Mass. Bouquets of fragrant flowers on altar … Continue reading
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Tagged buckled shoes, flowers, forgiveness, gloves, hats, healing, robes, sheets, white
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Looking Back
Looking Back Words used to be my friends. Followed them eagerly like stepping stones. But left them behind a while ago, walked away, didn’t look back. Sometimes they’d call out, soft whispers, too easily ignored. Can’t explain, no rhyme and … Continue reading
In Support of Forgiveness
For Creativity Challenge Day 9: Support http://1sojournal.wordpress.com In Support of Forgiveness I have always supported victims of abuse because I was one, more than once. It has helped me to heal from past scars and pain, to find light at … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse victims, creativity challenge, dis-ease, Fibonacci Poem, forgiveness, structure, support
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Article of Faith
The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #263 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ bless, only, left, enter, brush, turn, part, free, plate, cross, post, count Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #74 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ scornful, harsh, old, silly, cry, serene, infant, dreams, senseless, smite, absolution, songs Poets United: Poetry Pantry #317 … Continue reading
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Tagged absolution, forgiveness, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, silly songs, substance, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, word lists, wordles
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About Memory
For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle 190 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ cave, haze, cape, traipse, chains, deranged, filet, strain, sustain, feign, enflame, exchange About Memory Memories might feign a cape of innocence as they traipse down a sunlit path, while some seem to … Continue reading
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Tagged cave, darkness. light, forgiveness, memory, perfect, Poetry prompt, The Sunday Whirl, traipse, wordle
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Under A Jaded Sun
For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle #185 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ standing, satisfied, burn, jaded, spark, rain way, sun, cold, grey, joy, slash And for Poets United: Poetry Pantry #225 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Under A Jaded Sun Jaded sun swiftly burns off standing rain puddles before … Continue reading
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Tagged end of times, final confrontation, forgiveness, jaded sun, Poetry Pantry, poetry prompts, Poets United, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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Scrambling On The Bridge To Forgiveness
For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle #149 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ eggs, trust, test, not, high, course, peep, mug, trial, form, bring, blown, stick Scrambling On The Bridge To Forgiveness Pain is the shell that encloses your understanding… __Kahlil Gibran Blown trust … Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, Kahlil Gibran, pain, Poetry prompt, quote, scrambling, shell, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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Beyond Black and White
In response to Claudette’s Weekly Writing Challenge #6: Bravery. This is a very old piece, but it came to mind when I was thinking about what bravery means to me. To me, bravery means breaking silence, especially when it goes … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Black and White, blackening bruises, bravery, breaking silence, Claudette's weekly writing challenge, conversation, denied, directly and honestly, forgiveness, goes against "norm", incest, meaning, nun, ones own truth, poem, precious white soul, priority, shushed, sin, spoken aloud, stain, upturned faces, what one has been taught
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