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  • Rumble in the Enchanted Forest – A Photo-Fiction Prompt Sonnet

    Rumble in the Enchanted Forest Changing skin, trading fur for red jacket slim, hands in pockets cold, the enchanted forest’s always watching, got no hatchet wouldn’t hack it even those slanted magicked weeds wouldn’t know. Wolves confront me, glare at my red jacket wanting action. Dropping my jacket, I attack with glee. My claws tear them into… Read more

  • Out of Reach – A Daily Prompt Sonnet

    Out of Reach – A Daily Prompt Sonnet

    Out of Reach ‘Twas no toy upon  high shelf that caught his eye, no bright ball rolling down a hole either, not some child’s toy that could be bought, nothing so droll as that for this boy’s goal. His little fingers strained to touch the magic rising around him in concentric spheres. Shimmering green, translucent–a magic bubble… Read more

  • To Live and Die in Starlight

    To Live and Die in Starlight

    To Live and Die in Starlight To live and die in starlight—my dark tomb I await as my last breath space swallows. Static–no rescue from this chill’d, stark womb. No shining rebirth as stars do follows this silent end of asphyxiation. No state funeral, no six gun salute– No alien felled me for my nation.… Read more

  • Souls Arriving: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #6

    Souls Arriving: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #6

    Souls Arriving “On the far shore, where old lives abated. The square-rigged, ship drawn by dragon power, pulled up to the shallows. She departed with the souls who’d flown from grave to towers shining in the sun. Angels gathered there to welcome all to the Lands of Ever where no mortal had e’er trod. Whatever expectations… Read more

  • Hands of Flame – Photo-Fiction Challenge #9

    Hands of Flame: Gevret* Fire burned cold in his eyes, a corona of red that coated the world, blotting out other colors, showing no nirvana just a holocaust snap shot to call out the future and leave him holding firelight. Flames that crack and curl everything except him because he’s got that firelight under his skin.… Read more

  • Two Skeletons Embracing, Side by Side – Thursday Picture Prompt #34

    Two Skeletons Embracing, Side by Side. Two skeletons embracing, side by side. Life’s not ending as it should, if those bones aren’t embracing in the earth. Side by side they rattle folks, remind us bags of bones, that death is stalking us with every breath. Two skeletons embracing on a bench, a photographer’s trick on cheating death? Perhaps a… Read more

  • Seven Words – A Sonnet for the Daily Post

    Seven Words Seven Wonders described with seven words. Seven words separate understanding from confusion. Do less words go unheard when all the work, seven words are doing? Khalil Gibran once said, “that people will never understand one another [‘less] language is reduced to seven words.” Still, to discuss science we need more not less. To define reality, we need… Read more

  • Souls Sailing: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #5

    Souls Sailing: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #5

    Souls Sailing “All aboard,” the angel mariner says. He’s plied this route for centuries. On one shore stands the Mortal Veil, and ways back to flesh, blood and woe. “Turn from it please, that sparkling curtain, lest it tempt you to step through and become a lost soul again. No life is found that way. If… Read more

  • Two Sparks Meeting, Heart to Heart

    Two Sparks Meeting, Heart to Heart

    Two Sparks Meeting, Heart to Heart Two sparks meeting, heart to heart, celebrate a life beginning. A life whose leading saved us all, a life that resonates down through the ages, a life whose bleeding cleansed us all, a life whose end raised us up, a life worth sharing, heart to heart, as two sparks meeting light… Read more

  • Your Design – (Extra)ordinary

    Your Design – (Extra)ordinary

    Your Design ‘Tween two ice sheets on a road, there bubbles gold as pavement heats and ice melts away. Caught in that swift rushing current, unable to flee, a piece of winter castaway and shoved towards the grate to flow river-wards. In the bubbles’ shine I see your paintbrush, evidence of your attention, my Lord. I study… Read more