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Tag Archives: time
Singular Moment
bloom joy flex overcome moon reflect loon tense wrinkle time present face For the Sunday Whirl: wordle #473 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ In this present but tense wrinkle of time, bloom of moon’s reflection overcomes face of dark waters, and call of a … Continue reading
Colors and Lines
She remembers a time, without time, when her world was made of words and color, lines and curves like stars that lightened whatever darkness might occur. A time when her mind and heart were filled with the wonder of just … Continue reading
Bones
Knows that now is the time to look back, see the bones of her owned beginnings. Hardened harshness that cages both head and heart, keeps them separate and so far apart. Only knowing, as she hoped back then, that voice … Continue reading
The Dragon Speaks
NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 9 Szzooo Little One, it iz your birthday. I like thizz yearly czzelebrashun of your paszage through time. We dragonz live far too long to do zuch a thing. And people bring you preszentss. Szometimez thingz … Continue reading
Posted in The Dragon Speaks
Tagged birthday, celebration, creation, Heth, imagination, presents, time
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The Redoubt
NaPoWriMo Day 5 Used to try to imagine what a “safe place” might look like. Never thought it might be hidden behind my own face. Spent years building this redoubt in my mind. A poem, or single image, words to … Continue reading
On Tree of Life
On Tree of Life Watch myself climb carefully onto branch of long-ago other life. Shaky splayed hands wrapped around cracked bark, which still holds clear sparks of memory. See her there, woman I was, curled tightly on living room sofa. … Continue reading
Posted in On Tree of Life
Tagged branches, darkkness, fear, memory, Poetry prompt, time, Waiting on Words
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Sometimes, Cinderella
Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #75 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ shape, milk, feet, play, bird, car, dirt, love, brick, theme, diary, pumpkin The Sunday Whirl: Whirl #26 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ lightness, bee, cuttlefish, sparkle, shine, flake mutable, veiled, precise, ignorant, tapestry, threat Poets United: Poetry Pantry #318 … Continue reading
Posted in Sometimes Cinderella
Tagged lost love, muted, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, time, word lists, wordle
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A Certain Loneliness
The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #232 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ gasps, dial, left, angels, slap, snare, dust, remember, loss, pause, days, cold Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #40 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ twilight, grazing, ripple, loneliness, wet, munching, tufts, falls, delicate, wrist, break, gladly Poets United: Poetry Pantry #285 … Continue reading
A Gambol With Time
For Miz Quickly’s poetry prompt: day 5, sound http://imprompt.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/april-5/ A Gambol With Time Am becoming jaded by this game I have been playing. Chasing after tiny tiles, racing after pacing clock, always getting chopped off, just before I am finished. … Continue reading
Posted in A Gambol With Time
Tagged distraction, gambol, game, Miz Quickly, National Poetry Month, poem a day, rhyme, sound, time
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Soul's Music 