Elemental Senryu: Wind
Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Wind Whispers soft and light, scream signals storm’s strong might, yet cradles flying kites. Wind whips tornadoes, hurls them across the grassland– toss cars and houses. ~ ~ ~ To be continued tomorrow … Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Wind
Elemental Senryu: Water
Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Water Evolves ceaselessly, frozen then flowing briskly, can’t live without thee. Water dashes rocks, falling in a silver spray– purity that flows. ~ ~ ~ To be continued tomorrow … Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Water
Elemental Senryu: Earth
Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Earth Above sprouts green lawns, beneath lies decaying bones, births, buries life zones. Cities rise and fall Earth remains spinning through all the lives led and lost. ~ ~ ~ To be continued tomorrow … ~ ~ ~ Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Earth
Curse Breaker | Falling
Curse Breaker | Falling Sarn gave the forest one backwards glance just to confirm that neither Nolo nor any other Rangers had appeared. Trees stood by watching him, no doubt waiting for him to make a move. Was this all a cruel game to them? His hands curled into fists; he was no one’s pawn. Other than the wind rustling leaves high above, he heard shouts that grew more distant the longer he stood there. Let those shouts not be about him. Let Nolo find someone else to badger. Didn’t he need to report all this madness to his superior? … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Falling
Curse Breaker | Rift
Curse Breaker | Rift Sarn ran back towards the bodies. Dread dogged him. A branch shot out at chest level and Sarn struck it hard enough to bruise. He had managed to slow enough to keep from breaking anything but the impact still drove the breath from him. He ducked under the impediment and then had to throw himself backwards to avoid a head injury as more branches leapt into his path. He watched in horror as the ground opened up and that child’s body, along with all the others, toppled into it. He couldn’t tear his gaze away. The … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Rift
Curse Breaker | Queen of All Trees
Curse Breaker | The Queen of All Trees Something tied the Child of Magic to the mountain and that tie refused to allow him to leave it. The Queen of All Trees tested its tensile strength and found the tie to be stronger than it. Each link was a promise forged in magic and blood. It led back to an unexpected source—a small child. The Child of Magic had a child of his own. Not well versed in humans, the Queen of All Trees flipped through memory’s pages seeking the truth. It found a sixteen year old boy and a … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Queen of All Trees
Curse Breaker | Stupefied
Curse Breaker | Stupefied A keening sound startled Nolo and gave him a direction. He rushed off towards the source. He found Sarn staring at a broken child not two hundred paces away from the previous murder site. His hands shook where they remained suspended halfway between himself and the boy. Horror had shut off his reasoning. Beyond the child lay a dozen men, women and children all dead. They’re bodies had not been ripped apart or in anyway despoiled. Nolo noted all that in a quick glance before returning his attention to his stricken charge. The dead could wait … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Stupefied
Curse Breaker | Discovery
Curse Breaker | Discovery Passing between two trees, whose boles each had to be over a hundred feet in diameter, he froze. Bodies lay in a small clearing—or what was left of them. The stench hit Sarn full in the face as the wind, which had picked up over the last mile of his hike, shifted. He gagged, doubled over and retched. Sarn started as a hand landed on his shoulder. “You okay, Kid?” “I’m not a kid.” Sarn shot back as he forced the bile back down. “I’m twenty—” “I know,” Nolo gave Sarn’s shoulder a squeeze and then let … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Discovery
Curse Breaker | Kidnapped
Curse Breaker | Kidnapped More shouts interrupted by tearing, scraping and the grating of sandpaper as something not human dragged Sarn into the forest. He ran his fingers along the grooves of the thing manacling his arm as he tried to figure out what had seized him. His fingers encountered tree bark and that made no sense. Why would a tree abduct him? It had never done that before. Why would it need to start now? What the hell was going on? “Let go of me!” Sarn hammered the heel of his hand against whatever part of the tree that … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Kidnapped
Curse Breaker | Commanded
Curse Breaker | Commanded “We don’t know if that Kid is a mage,” Jerlo corrected as he appeared between his two officers. At five foot nothing, the force of Jerlo’s personality took up more space than he did. Right now his formidable glare focused on a man sixteen inches taller than himself. Gregori could bench press one Jerlo in each hand. So whenever the commander scolded Gregori, everyone dropped everything and watched. “Oh yeah? Then why do his eyes glow all the damned time? That’s a sign of active magic and you know it. Hell it’s even mentioned in the Litany.” … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Commanded
Captured – Curse Breaker
The Enchanted Forest takes what it wants. Can Nolo prevent it from taking his apprentice? Continue reading Captured – Curse Breaker
They might be Senryus
These might indeed be Senryus or some other species of micro poems. I just read three mystery/thrillers (audio books of course) back to back while cleaning house/walking/cooking/photoshopping etc and for some reason that led me to write these. Go figure. Seventeen lifetimes he sat, in prison, scribbling wisdom on cell blocks Parted lips drip gold gold flecks smeared to make her bold she laughs, gold flashes Stars alight attract lovers with star-shot wishes their hopes soar space-wards Lovers who obsess future’s fate’s their obsession now’s not their concern Jealousy’s green eye casts itself on all around sees imagined faults Security woos … Continue reading They might be Senryus
Curse Breaker | Ejected
Standing stones stand in the way–he must find a way. Trouble lies without not within. Continue reading Curse Breaker | Ejected
Curse Breaker | Crossing
What trouble does Sarn heads toward, blindfolded, kept in the dark by his master? Continue reading Curse Breaker | Crossing
Goodnight – A Senryu?
Goodnight (Quite possibly a series of senryus) Let night break gentle on your brow and wipe away cares as it enfolds. Toss your wishes high so like the stars they scatter and night might gather. Night holds your wishes in its pocket, kept there safe ’till day unlocks it. Sleep now, wish no more let cares slide between the boards as bright dreams take wing. Let sunlight hold you; no nightmare can behold you; sleep now, dreams shield you. Fly amid the stars where wishes made become true; wake to wish granted. Sunlight breaks gently on your brow and embraces dreams as it enfolds. Continue reading Goodnight – A Senryu?
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