Source: T. Kittelsen, huldra
Feeling both drained and blocked
Creative flow not happening
Just need to scrape a few key people off
Step out into the rain
Lose the shoes
And go to ground for awhile
Recharge. Continue reading
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Stopped on the stair
Halfway here and partway there
Nature’s tunnel narrows the path
Limits the options, like algorithm’s math Continue reading
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From Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr’s photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (12/22/23). No more than 250 words in length. Otherwise, let your creative flag fly!
Zeke was a Schmittyboy from the tip-top of his wrangling hat, to the red-dusted toes of his herding boots. Picture twin moons, Phobos and Deimos, shining in rare alignment over Arizon’s desert plain. Continue reading
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The woods are not normally so still: birds whistling, squirrels crashing through piles of autumnal brush, foxes barking and screaming, the peel and crunch of deer stripping tree bark, their gyrating jaws masticating what food they can find in these sere times; all has been silenced. Continue reading
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…Bows and trembles still,
But wind punishes, more likely to cut
Than caress and quicken the hopeful green of early months.
Pulsing chlorophyll sparking, breathing deep
The sinewy length of sultry Midsommer. Continue reading
Honestly, she could sit here all day and watch the water, the gulls, and the waves wink their private jokes to one another, the sun heating her pale, white shoulders as she leaned over the steel railing that bordered the sharp drop to the river below. Continue reading
Carrots. Original public domain image from Wikimedia Commons
Lois started awake, struggling with her sleeping bag, before recalling she’d agreed to camping with Kenny. Not too keen on the northern woods, wild animals, and biting flies, but fair was fair. He’d gone to that Writer’s Conference with her, and from all appearances had a great time. Continue reading
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