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  • Storm Tamer – One Word Photo Challenge: Winter

    Storm Tamer – One Word Photo Challenge: Winter

    Storm Tamer A snowy road he took cross bridge to isle in the sound. No crunch of snow heard he this deaf traveler, this storm tamer, not while wind-weaving, cloud reading, snowshoeing his way home. For Serensalia he’s bound. He writes ice messages that melt come spring. He’s snow dancing, weather tracking around the mount’n paths. Through gales he leads with daring traders heading… Read more

  • Defining Success

    Defining Success

    Defining Success Put the pieces of your soul together. Arrange them until they form a picture. Use that picture, do not let dust gather. Set your reference frame to that picture Frame out your future, then live in that frame. Express the picture of your soul in all you do and say. Our words shore up the frame.… Read more

  • If You Leave – A Daily Post Sonnet

    If You Leave – A Daily Post Sonnet

    If You Leave If you leave, I’ll follow,  Ran thought as he spread his short arms in a hug. He didn’t say any of this to the father whose knee he sat. His father held him, but didn’t say how this parting hurt him; how he wanted to take his son with him on a… Read more

  • Careful – Kung Fu Fighting Butterflies Ahead!

    Careful – Kung Fu Fighting Butterflies Ahead!

    Kung Fu Fighting Butterflies They were kung fu fighting, those butterflies, and grappling for a hold. Their wings’re upraised out of the way; their eyes are on the prize. Through first one round and then two, they grazed each other, neither gave ground, so on they fought into the twilight. Lightning bugs zipped by to light the… Read more

  • Talk – A Writing Rehab Prompt Sonnet

    Talk – A Writing Rehab Prompt Sonnet

    Talk “Talk, tell me why you’re here. Will you just talk? Open that mouth of yours and talk, say some- thing, anything. Don’t just stand there mute, talk to me, spit out words about any thing…” Sarn stayed silent, kept the truth penned in where it couldn’t hurt him, prisoned behind teeth set ‘gainst speech, caging… Read more

  • Breaking Free

    Breaking Free

    Breaking Free Now, it needed to break out of its shell. Shatter the prismatic outer layer that attracted the noble fool who fell in lust with its luster. Purveyor of fine gems, he fancied the egg, mistook it for a faberge, but it’s the real thing. A dragon egg laid by an old crook, now sitting on a… Read more

  • To Write and Roam: a Mobile Sonnet for WWWP5K

    To Write and Roam: a Mobile Sonnet for WWWP5K

    To Write and Roam Who uses a pen to notate when with a swipe of a finger, you make letters appear on your touch screen phone? No mere myth this handwriting, this scratching that fetters some writers, keeps them up deciphering their ink marks until night drains into day. I do not indulge in quill sharpening.… Read more

  • Spring Send Off – A One Word Photo Challenge Sonnet

    Spring Send Off – A One Word Photo Challenge Sonnet

    Spring Send Off Everywhere he looked spring had sprung green, gold and clear running streams no longer ice-choked. Nights still froze his balls off, but leave the wold he would to see Shayari ‘fore he croaked. Nothing tied him here now that his wife had gone. His children grown no longer wanted him around, an inconvenience he’d… Read more

  • Avengers’ Masque – A Stomp Prompt Sonnet

    Avengers’ Masque – A Stomp Prompt Sonnet

    Avengers’ Masque Her costume, a gown of fine wine, her mask set with pearls clasped to her face by ribbons woven into her tresses for the task of concealing sharp toothed combs. Those ribbons doubled as garrotes to choke betrayer’s throats if she could lure the king’s killers out to the veranda. Did the betrayer see circling near that his doom… Read more

  • A Floral Haiku

    A Floral Haiku

    Frost comes, flowers fade. Snow falls; winter blankets all. Primrose sprouts through snow. for today’s prompt for Writing with Jishnu: Flowers, Metaphor and haiku Read more