Spark
Body falters, mind the same, but spirit dances, lithe as a flame.
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Reach Higher
Aim for the sublime – defy mediocracy; let passion hunger. (For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge: hunger/strike; and Ragtag Community’s sublime)
Read MorePostcard to the Mundane from the Water’s Edge
This passion surfaces, rushes, boils inside me, raging against the rocks of my conventionality, demanding release, commanding my pen – its voice a roar obstructing constraint – insatiable creativity. I should be back soon. (Today’s prompt is to write a poetic prose in the form of a postcard.)
Read MorePassion Exposed
Seduced – the virility of youth irresistible even for an old duck like me – so unexpected, relentless, I ignore exhaustion lean into the fantasy, allow desire to embrace me, cross a boundary, surrender… step up to the stage, bare-chested, shameless, speak into the mic, reveal my words: those childlike bits of myself; hope my […]
Read MoreClearing Corners
No more out-on-the-town bustles – the late afternoon light fading in my corner – focus now turned to higher issues; try to keep company with mindfulness – a worthy educator, facilitating release – but my inventory is too spun. Achieving a semblance of completion, something to reflect my life’s toil, would be welcome, yet I […]
Read MorePrayer for Purpose
If transformation is my path, then let me be in charge – reverse this introspective lull, cease this bystander’s status, build new awareness, embrace the fullness of spirit. Give me legs that I may walk amongst the gathering voices brush shoulders with anti-hate protestors, find my wings, wear the cause to end racism, sexism, fear […]
Read MorePoet’s Quandary
If I were to write every day for one hundred days, would my soul be purged of this malaise; is it a thing to be dredged, dragged up – twisted and tied like tattered bed sheets knotted together; is there a remedy for this scourge; or is this an inherent restlessness, a fiery blue spark […]
Read MoreFleeting Libido
Crazy catches me – semi-conscious/ zoned out – body slams me, hot mouth pressed on mine suppressing objection (as if I’d object) working my juices my mind overboard passion flaming I forget who I am where I am yesterdays tomorrow Modesty intervenes compelling flight – flesh torn from flesh prematurely – this seduction, taunting me […]
Read MoreMastery
“Why can’t I play hockey, Mom?” John and I were watching boy after boy try to shoot a puck through a hole punched out of the middle of a cardboard goalie. It was a fundraising event for his older sisters’ school. Truth was, I didn’t have a good answer; I just didn’t like the violence […]
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