Photo: Pablo Martinez on Unsplash
Blow gently into the embers
Of
Your dreams.
So the quiet flames
Of what you’d always wished
And perhaps did not know how
To do
Can lick them into hope
Anew.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Anew in 31 words
Photo: Amitai Asif
Inside the core of frozen
Lore
There beats a tender
Heart.
Beneath the glaciers of
Dearth
Unfurl forgotten
Paths.
Amidst the howling winds of
Cold
Whispers bid to
Start,
And feed the seed ‘neath Tundra’s
Soul
Awaiting summer’s
Part.
Note: just the other day, I watched parts of the movie “Frozen” (the first one) with a young child, in preparation for that child’s going to the movies with friends to see “Frozen 2.” Now I have an ear-worm and am yet to “let it go” … 😉
For Linda Hill’s SoCS and JusJoJan challenges: Movie title
Photo: Jim DiGritz on Unsplash
She looked him
In the eyes, and saw
A face that tells
Of life and memory
And all the small and
Infinitely scarring
Stories of what he’d done
Because he had to
Even when it wasn’t
What he’d wanted, but
What was necessary to have
Done.
The difficult
Choices.
The privations.
The loss made in
Acceptance of the compass
Of the heart and
Mind.
His was a trustworthy face.
Plowed by honest work
And resigned to
Sacrifice.
One month
May prove to be
Not nearly long
Enough.
Last lines quote used as inspiration for this challenge:
“I looked him in the eyes at last. They were sunken and soulful, and often carried dark circles under them. The man had a trustworthy face.
‘A month?’
‘That’s all. One month.'”
(“Girl Waits With Gun“ by Amy Stewart)
For the dVerse Poetics Last Lines challenge
Photo: Atara Katz
She has come to inspect
The tent
The snacks
The gear
The rest.
A gazelle
Wearing smiles
And she’ll stay
For a
While.
Entertainment
It seems
Can be found
On a whim.
For the Word of the Day Challenge: Gazelle
Photo: Dikla Nachmias
Ladies of the borrowed time,
Mistresses of undemanding,
Mothers bearing down the twine
To faithful understanding,
Sisters of this Earth and sky,
Daughters threading needles of
Life verifying,
Girls who hearts ignore —
I hear you roar.
Do know:
Together we’ll weave words
From crying.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: roar
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
A moment
For the memory of
A different kind of home,
Where sun sparkles
On the water
And you feel your soul
Fold along the crease
Of rolling foam,
And where your spirit
Sings the song of places
It has long known
How to roam.
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
In the portal to
Tomorrow
Let the trumpets
Ring not
Alarm
And rush to
Harm,
But stop to the
Hubris
Of war.
In the portal for
Tomorrow
May those men
Who rashly
Spend
The life of
Others,
Know the call
Of trumpets
Often heralded
Only pain,
More gore.
Enough.
Enough.
No more.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Portal
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Look at that thing
With the wings,
Can it fly
Or can it sing?
Should we poke it?
Better not.
Press the fence
That keeps out tots.
For the JusJoJan daily prompt
Photo: Fabrizio Verrecchia on Unsplash
It was to be a fervent
Vow
For all the things their souls
Allow
For hopes and dreams, and yet
Somehow
The time and place did not
Allow
And left them both perplexed,
What now?
For Linda Hill’s SoCS (and JusJoJan) challenge
Photo: Diego PH on Unsplash
I heard her wish
Upon a star
For what she hoped
Life’s tears won’t mar.
“May it be a
Stellar year,
Where future skies
Shine bright and clear.
Where truth holds sway
Where justice weighs
Where children can with parents
Stay.”
I heard her wish
Upon a star,
And prayed it echoed
Wide and far.
Thank you to the Ragtag Daily Prompt team for this apt prompt – I hadn’t participated as frequently as I might’ve wanted to, but I always enjoyed it when I did, and I hope to continue to do so in 2020. Also thank you all in this lovely WordPress community, for the many other prompts and company and comments and delight and creativity through the year! I’m so grateful! Wishing you all a happy, healthy, just, joyful, hopeful 2020, and may it herald a better decade than the one just closing.
For the RDP Tuesday Challenge: Stellar
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