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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Writing Challenge: Describe two shadows meeting in a moonlit forest

The night was darkening, the blades of grass were turning a beautiful cerulean blue as the sun hovered over the landscape. 

Evening was coming, but not quite here, an air of anticipation hovered in the air as the shadows moved across the field and into the forest. 

Lights were on in the woodcutters forest home, the stacks of freshly cut logs sat against the barn in neat rows and here as well the shadows moved, a phantom shading the spaces in between logs.

Off in the distance a hooded figure can be seen making their way across the field, walking steadily, with purpose. It looks like the destination may be deep within the forest since there was no slowing of step as they approached the perimeter of the forest without pause. 

Another shade emerges, the opposite of the first, an indistinct figure hugging the tree line and making it's way slowly as though following the first.

The forest is light as the moon and the sun hover on either sides of the sky, the first of the figures is stooping to pick something up, or to adjust their shoe. The second pauses in anticipation.

As though a signal had been given the first figure looks up and starts off again, looking from time to time up at the sky as though gauging the time by the rising moon.

Wind is rustling the leaves, and scampering animals show that there is life in these woods. Life awakening after a day of sleeping.

The second shadow is closer to the first than it previously had been, but is still a respectable distance away, still it is as though the second is following in the steps of the first dancing through the forest like a sprite on the water.

The moon is fully in the sky now, all is dark, except where rays of light penetrate through the thick branches.

The first shade is making camp, setting up for a fire, the second hovers on the edge, waiting.

A fire is lit, the first is revealed to be the rugged woodcutter. He looks up and says "so it's you?" 

Friday, March 29, 2019

Thinking of Forever

I feel the pressure

below my heart

in the pit

of my conscience

I need

an

explanation

for this loss

of self

the missing

piece

the terrified aching

sadness

that erupts when I think about

 forever 

Monday, March 11, 2019

Beautiful Connections

You are new to me

a rare find in the cosmos

As is the creation of our universe

with all the elements of life

Created by

A massive chain of events

forming connective

chains of amino acids

and sparks of new life

With all things against

the newness of creations

and connections

who knows what will survive?

Yet somehow

there are beautiful things

in a world that emerged

from an empty space

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Travelers

We are traveling
a flash
bright lights

time is passing
marching by

I look up and sigh
the night is gone

a little dawn is breaking
grey dawn

the morning is crisp, fresh

day after day

time is passing
marching by

I can hear it
zipping underneath

subconscious

and I see the passing of place and time
from night to day

we are traveling

time is passing
marching by

I look
and sigh


Friday, March 1, 2019

Quiet

Can you sit a while with that uncertainty

that silence



the fear

Hear nothing and sweat
while your doubts, your fears, the chaos, the clamor
all rise in your chest with a rising of panic and irrationality
your mind is a buzz, your stomach feels queer

Everything

every niggling doubt

begs for your attention

is it alright? am I OK? have I messed up?

all you hear is silence



silence



fear

Monday, February 25, 2019

Of Love

I have loved

a love of empathy

our connection, our beautiful children

I have loved mind to mind

heart to heart

across the world, a beautiful flame

I have loved

a beautiful soul

with a broken heart, that I couldn't mend

I have loved

some who have broken my heart

and still I love

across boundaries

across time

In spite of, and because of all I have loved.

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Quotes

"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God." ~Aeschyles

"Men want to speak, Woman want to be heard."

"The truth you speak has no past and no future... it is, and that's all it needs to be." ~Illusions

"In order to live, free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." ~Illusions

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life, so, aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." ~Thoreau

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be, now put foundations under them." ~Henry David Thoreau