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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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Quarantine
NaPoWriMo 2020: Day 8 Trapped inside a world unknown. That one inside of self alone. Undefined because of busyness of doing, rather than of being. Sit still and breathe in deeply. Feel air filling your lungs. Hold it there for … Continue reading
Thirteen Ways of Looking At Memory
NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day 30 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Memory I Stone border wall keeping one from entering dreamed of place called Freedom. II Being constantly locked into space of exhausting repetition. III Grains of sand that linger long … Continue reading
Posted in Thirteen Ways of Looking At Memory
Tagged apparitions, border wall, ghosts, healing, wider place
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April PAD Challenge: Day 12
when the eagle cries atop his favorite scrag and ravens pace the beach ___Sherry Marr Sacred Ground When you step here and stop, feel the tingle of earth’s energy rise through soles of boot and feet, swiftly continue upward until … Continue reading
To Find Meaning
For Creativity Challenge: Day 5, meaning http://1sojournal.wordpress.com To Find Meaning Words, random letters marching across page, yet giving definition to thought/feeling for both reader and writer. Colors, stroked over canvas of choice, yet speaking to heart and soul of their … Continue reading
Posted in To Find Meaning
Tagged color, creativity challenge, definition, healing, Joseph Campbell, meaning, story, value, writing
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Creative Healing
The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #255 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ whirring, smirk, churn, splatter, chat, tin, trim, lemon, scar, left, chisel, dig Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #63 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ flashes, moments, uneasy, recall, week, writing, altered, distorted, three, sister, years, came Poets United: Poetry Pantry #306 … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Healing
Tagged creativity, healing, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, whirring churn, word lists, wordles, writing
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Prayer At Dawn
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #208 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ tilt, astray, breeze, awake, bruising, hamper, instinct, cracks, spirit, staggered, smiled, angle Poets United: Poetry Pantry #261 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Prayer At Dawn Each sunrise awakens new awareness. Thoughts once gone astray, tilted at hampering angles, no … Continue reading
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Tagged digital painting, healing, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, prayer at dawn, restoration, The Sunday Whirl, wordle, wounded psyche
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Heaven Could Be A Greyhound
For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle #154 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com root, plan, pack, heaven, growl, heal, burst, rows, shivering, mending, why, time And for Poets United poetry prompt: Poetry Pantry http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Heaven Could Be A Greyhound Heard the growl of greyhound … Continue reading
Posted in Heaven Could Be A Greyhound
Tagged Announcement, escape, greyhound, healing, Poetry Pantry, poetry prompts, Poets United, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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Firefly Transformation
For We Write Poems: We Wordle #5 http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ Firefly Transformation Incandescent ribbons of fireflies hemmed the patio/porch with a certain queerly wild tinkling. Not quite heard, yet with enough substance to make a tired grandmother’s heart jump in foolish child-like … Continue reading
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Tagged firefly transformation, healing, I Believe, pain, Poetry prompt, relief, REM, We Wordle #5, We Write Poems
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Finding The God Sequence
For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle #146 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Finding The God Sequence No longer a bucolic young miss, sometimes still finds herself balancing on edge of two alternate realities: tiptoeing precariously between numbers and words. Sensing that the former … Continue reading
Soul's Music 