Mother’s Eyes
The night sky with its myriad of stars is unequivocally the eyes of those, like a father or a mother, who look down on us with love and everlasting affection.
The night sky with its myriad of stars is unequivocally the eyes of those, like a father or a mother, who look down on us with love and everlasting affection.
On the alwayswrite blog owned by Marsha Ingrao she runs a Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) that I knew nothing about. But thanks to the lovely photo image I added…
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My first attempt at Gogyohka Poetry. We're talking Lullabies today. This lullaby is composed of star and moon dust. For you. Good night. Sweet dreams.
If wooden gates could talk, what stories would they tell? These stories are also stored in hearts that never forget. Hope you enjoy the poem that came through me today. Happy shelling.
Riddle: What do word enthusiast do when they're derailed and out of the vortex; and feel like a turtle that someone kicked and left struggling to flip itself over? Answer: They write a Sonnet! Come read mine, please.
This year, on our visit to the cemetery, I saw a whiskey tumbler placed on a tombstone. That’s acceptance, I thought, and proof of love. Obon.
Hiraeth: Nostalgia that is closer to Sehnsucht (German) and Saudade (Portuguese). Creative non-fiction. Hope you enjoy my childhood story of longing. Saudade.
Learning from my mistake. Hope the change is evident. Never will I be perfect, but never will I stop trying to be better than yesterday. For you, a mirrored refrain. Enjoy.
Here's a Mirrored Refrain in the Villanelle form (hopefully)
In two decades of decadent living I'd banished all remembrances of the past But the house that I ran from came ghosting Nudging me to go visit one last time…
A Shakespearean Sonnet for you today. Hope you enjoy it.n