Take control of your Joy Let no one destroy it Inner peace is the key Hold on tight and don’t quit jj2017
Category: Miscellaneous
“Four – Words and a Poet”
For almost all my life, I’ve known that words were thick like leaves upon the cottonwood, like starling feathers on a wheeling flock, flashes on the water, glimpsed through the clouds. For just as long, they’ve hidden like hedge birds. I’ve had to chase…
Hour Three
None of the pictures elicit an emotional response. All I can think of is lying down, closing my eyes, and going back to sleep. So I could take a quick catnap, and not fall much behind. Couldn’t I? I could not. By the time I…
Sun and Moon
“Yellow flowers pink balloons,mommy loves you.I’ll be home soon” a song I made for my baby girl almost seventeen years ago. …
almost full
searching for the address of the moon i glanced away from the road awashed in my headlights turned my head left she was there making the grey clouds shine unquestioning i don’t need a map i can trust my instincts to…
Independence
as far as I see me, Bright sunshine and nature’s beauty, The world so beautiful to see, Outside the room and Yes with sight that is free.
12 Noon Siren
Pyramid head is coming? Air raid? Tornado? Oh… wait I remember now 12 noon siren in Columbus Ah, Columbus
Abandon
It was abandoned long before we, ages twelve, eleven, nine gathered enough courage to walk through its open doorway some roof remained, sunlight freely illuminated what remained kitchen counter, enameled sink weathered, cracked-wood table, chairs one corner, mostly untouched by weather, time – stacks of…
BY HIS GRACE
Hour Three BY HIS GRACE Sunset of life, but the dawn of a new day. She says she is six, but she’s really Seventy-six. She says she’s playing dress-up with Sister, when really she’s getting her gown tied up in the back. In her mind’s…
Wisdom Found On the Beach (Based on Picture #3 of Prompt #3)
Hair flowing loosely with flowers falling with each step, her tambourine flicking sparks with each rattle, wrapped shirt tails revealing she now has a bejewelled belly button flicking light matching the mirrors in her blousing loose cotton maxi skirt, Janis Joplin has just arrived on…