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  • 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

  • The Pearl and the Fool: a Wordle Me a Reverie Prompt

    The Pearl and the Fool: a Wordle Me a Reverie Prompt

    The Pearl and the Fool I rolled the pearl round my palm, through layers of nacre, I saw the shade’s enchantment. No grace needed to break the cursed layers.  Though drowning in magic, its argument, malformed, made the spell’s body easily broken–any street mage could have done it. In the end, the fool had chosen poorly. No doubt he tilted at… Read more

  • A Sonnet by the Dots – The Daily Post

    By the Dots I play by the dots, connect them, throw them at the walls to see what sticks. Drop them out the window to see if they bounce, cut them, twist ’em round, stretch ’till they break, wring them out, shoot out their holes, fling them into outer space to see if they’ll orbit… Read more

  • Souls Playing: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #4

    Souls Playing: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #4

    Souls Playing Note by note, word by word, ’till all was right, he stood swaying on the deck. Plucking strings, to hear them ring, he played a song of night. Along the shore, they came all night, both kings, and serfs alike. Death accepts all titles, severs all allegiances ‘cept to Him, who fashioned all,… Read more

  • In Your Footprints: a Pic and a Word Challenge Prompt

    In Your Footprints Better is one day in your courts. So I followed you into the desert, my king and my God. I stepped where you had trod, I go on as unfettered as you to sing your praises. Better is one day under your rule and that’s why I must follow through. Sand stings my eyes;… Read more