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April PAD Challenge: Day 10
Turtle Woman When turtles rise from the muck of Riley Creek, laughter bubbles through promises the child can’t wait to keep. Promises to listen to, and learn from, to taste, touch, and feel, to see with inner and outer eyes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brenda Warren, child, PAD Challenge, promises, turtle, undercaws, woman
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Aphrodite of Cyrene
For Creativity Challenge Day 21: Woman http://1sojournal.wordpress.com For Poets United: Poetry Pantry #332 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com Aphrodite of Cyrene “Perfection,” some would say, of this statue of a young woman carved in white stone. Curves so smooth they beg to be touched. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphrodite, arms, creativity challenge, hands, head, lives, rapists, single aperture, woman
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Different Lives
For NaPoWriMo: Day 28 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ ride, lost, tide, broke, water, still, divide, drop, remain Different Lives A child lost in childish things, picking up language of music and words. Rebellious teenager learning how to lie. Young adult thinking marriage would … Continue reading
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Tagged Highwayman, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristoferson, NaPoWriMo, poem a day, purple tree, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, woman
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Aries Rising
For We Write Poems poetry prompt: art of making fire http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ Aries Rising Cold, inside and out. Want to write but words are only stiff frozen letters refusing to bend around curves of inner landscape. Thoughts are swirling snowflakes … Continue reading
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Tagged Aries Rising, build fire, burn, cold, frozen letters, inner landscape, inside and out, opportunity, poem, razor sharp, response to writing challenge, slash exposed skin, snowflakes, stiff, unbending, woman, writing
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A Wolf, A Woman, and Windows
This is an old poem that has never seen the light of day. It caught my attention this morning because I have always had a peculiar fondness for it, and it seems I am back in the same space that … Continue reading
Posted in A Wolf A Woman and Windows
Tagged country road, development, growth, husband, mountain meadow, peering back, poem, raising children, roaming, strange creature, wider view, windows, wolf, woman
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In a Blink
Writer’s Island prompt #14 – “Just Around The Corner” Just around the corner in my mind, I am fifteen, he is thirty-two, thinks to teach me how to be a woman and, for a while, I thought to let him. … Continue reading
Posted in In a Blink
Tagged about being a woman, blink of an eye, create, diversion, future corners, hone, poem, role, shape, solid as brick, twice as thick, wife and children, woman, world of words
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Soul's Music 