Here in the quiet places where sleep brings respite and peace I am lost in your arms Healing found in your embraces calms a troubled mind as worries cease Here in the quiet places Must be spells and magic charms this power to soften and strengthen in a space where sleep brings respite and peace And when morning comes, when my eyes meet yours I … Continue reading Quiet Places
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Weekly Prompt: This weeks Word Prompt; Germs ? There’s festering germs in my brain The hallucination seems real Last night I went to a funeral The funeral was mine ? Attending the wake In the forest beside the lake I was a mental mess Walking around, dressed in my finest A plastic name-tag tied to my thong They were singing… Continue reading They Were Singing My Song
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Thanks to Sonya of Only 100Words for hosting #3LineTales. Credit: Nathan Wright via Unsplash On these dark nights, sometimes the words slip away; my mind’s a sieve. I’ve ideas but the fog wanders inside, and whatever I try, I cannot define these thoughts; it’s as if my wings are shorn, clipped from flight. I’m a bluebird singing her harmonious tune, while… Continue reading Three Line Tales: Fiction – Blips #amwritingfiction #3LineTales
Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café:
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to. ? Continue reading Promote Yourself Monday- September 17, 2018
Doubt lives in corners between apricots and asters and chipped china dishes beneath old blankets worn with time and continued use He’s timid, cautious and just a bit weary Starved for affection yet longing to trust a gentle hand a soothing voice And if he could speak, if he could share his tale of woe, living in a world too cold, he might … Continue reading Rescue
Both a blessing and a curse these lives we lead… knowing rules are not meant to be broken, only bent as unintended forces apply just enough heat to make them pliable And as we journey across time and space and experiences, it becomes inevitable, this drive to pause and reflect, knowing the next rest stop may forever be out of reach Such is … Continue reading Community
Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café:
The baristas at Go Dog Go Cafe are big fans of Pay It Forward Thursdays. We think it is a great opportunity to give a shout-out to another writer who has wowed us or creatively inspired us. However, Pay It Forward Thursday has not been getting a lot of love lately, which we think is a shame. Dear… Continue reading Pay It Forward Thursday- September 6, 2018
An oil lamp flickers in the darkness there in that cottage hidden somewhere between pounding surf and shifting sand Its windows long since boarded adorned by peeling paint and cracked glass and a door that hangs slightly askew The sole occupant feigns a grimace as he formulates a plan to pull me from this slumber to compel me to join him in this place where … Continue reading Of Dreams and Nightmares
It begins in the usual places borne of winds skirting between totems and pillars and prayer that breath of belonging once lost and twice found rising from stars collapsing in the night sky that urge to move forward counting steps taken even after the fall when gravitas redefines purpose and a new way is revealed she finds a way This is courage … Continue reading Courage
Composure, that veil I wear to overcompensate these fears migrating between heart and soul pausing just long enough to linger beneath these words I write and write again as I battle feelings creeping, taunting, challenging endlessly as the final product seems never enough, never quite right ⸺ crisp is the page as I draw a deep breath and begin yet again photo: Pixabay prompt: Go … Continue reading Complacency
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By Charles Robert Lindholm My Words Will Always Want To, Play Around With Rhythms And Rhymes And Meaningful Lines With Metaphors, And The Sweet Sound Of Similes, Scribbled By My Pen Playful Or Pensive Yet Simply Said Plaintive Phrases Escape From My Head And Always End Their Wandering Ways Through Pen On Paper With Ink, In The Color… Continue reading ALLITERATION ATTACK
If we were together today, September 2nd, I might offer you an iced tea instead of coffee. It’s one of those spectacular last days of summer and we could sit out back on the new patio my husband just put in. The sunflowers provide the perfect backdrop. Don’t mind the cats meowing on the porch. They’re a little upset I won’t let them out to … Continue reading If We Were Having Coffee…
I was playing for pride that evening, a bottled night waiting to explode It was moon-kissed, silver-edged and self aware Ignorant of the challenge ahead, I borrowed audacity to probe and confound inciting at times that white hot anger that knew no secrets, no control Imagine if you will the scene that played out as fate took a terrible turn Immersed in the marriage of … Continue reading Born Again
Originally posted on Ivor.Plumber/Poet:
My mind’s witnessing warring hell It’s time to ring the bell There is a time When enough, is more than enough When the price, far outweighs the costs Counting the countless heads, is a needless sum Moguls perched high upon ivory towers Swinging full circle in their leather chairs Crystal glasses full of classic red-wine From grapes, picked by… Continue reading Fish-eggs And Grapes
The poetry of hope can hide between the lines, waiting beneath words scribbled on a page Poised like a patient messenger, it watches as understanding unfolds with music that creates gentle melodies And if this marriage of chord and verse happens as fortune smiles, magic will stir the soul and memories will carve a place in the heart If you are very lucky, if you … Continue reading Poetry of Hope
Arcs of lightning slash the night sky bright flashes bring the storm into view cascading rains wash the air delicately caressing spirits of renewal in even those stubbornly clinging to trauma forged in enmity and loss gorged on the energy that created this tempest harnessing that power until it all breaks free, breaks free just as the mournful began to lose hope knighted and anointed … Continue reading Renewal
And so it is with a touch of melancholy that I reach far beneath my bed to retrieve my shoes, the ones that seem to delight in trapping my bare feet in unforgiving leather, as if to restrict the freedom I’d spent a summer cultivating Idle days are behind me now those endless days traversing stories in my mind as I raced to capture each … Continue reading Summer’s End
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The baristas at Go Dog Go Cafe are big fans of Pay It Forward Thursdays. We think it is a great opportunity to give a shout-out to another writer who has wowed us or creatively inspired us. However, Pay It Forward Thursday has not been getting a lot of love lately, which we think is a shame. Dear… Continue reading Pay It Forward Thursday- August 16, 2018
Originally posted on Charmed Chaos:
And when she arises from her watery grave, in a smoky swirl above the calm frigid lake she walks with him along a familiar trodden path, feeling his heavy sadness and hot bitter wrath for being forsaken. She reaches out to comfort his broken lonely soul but he cannot feel her, for her touch now cold as she sees… Continue reading The Path
Light shines through darkness A beam of hope revealed like smoke on the water Some say if I wait if I stop searching, seeking I might find true peace So I surrender today’s troubles and worries What will be will be photo: #PoetryPotion prompts: #GoDogGoCafe, #PoetryPotion, WD Wednesday Prompt, #Deedster Poetry Prompt 14, #Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille- MindlovesMisery’sMenagerie … Continue reading Learning Patience
Kept secrets linger — caught somewhere in a spiritual realm where quiet rain falls from dusty skies and the thin veil of faith shudders The urge to reveal truth beckons, a burning need that calls with a longing, lilting song crashing like waves washing across the lake, speckled and brilliant Loyalty and repercussion blend until the siren is silenced and sunlight falls across the rippled … Continue reading Secrets
In this place of peace sunlight is dispersed through the canopy of ancient trees A kaleidoscope of color explodes on the forest floor with beads of amethyst and gold Energy released is all at once both graceful and restless naming this time for healing Chaos rearranged in letters and leaves and truth drift on a soft breeze and whisper a new story photo: mine prompts: … Continue reading Log Cabin Ruminations
Don’t we share this yearning a need to capture the sunset on scraps of crumpled paper ~ the figments and fairytales and everything in-between More than victims of circumstance we’re partners in crime, you and I Nah, don’t forget, never forget wherever you’re goin’, I’m goin’ your way we’ve got such a lot of world to see We’ll run til we’re breathless makes no … Continue reading Chasing Rainbows
Once I climbed the walls of a canyon just to release my voice beneath a sky tinged with red velvet and rubies it echoed hollow and flat before returning to fill spaces and cracks and indigence replacing thoughts of emboldened bitterness The Milky Way created calligraphy in the dark and I captured my tears in a cup before offering up the distress I was bound … Continue reading Capturing Hope
Flashing lights on the horizon dredge up midnight shades of blue back to when hearts made of paper set a table trimmed with a spray of larkspur and lies I thought of running away then to a time when things were simple and patterns were predictable and even the gravel path we walked was safe as we ventured to the edge of oblivion how were … Continue reading Midnight Memories
Between sparks of light and the convocation of scholars— he is brave enough to be curious living in the moment, blissfully unaware as the world moves on Not afraid to ask questions as he murmurs tell me again show me … Continue reading On Searching
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat YA book- – definite read!! July 13, 2018 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase A great story that keeps you on the edge of your seat with suspense all the while laughing at the witty interaction! Michele Vecchitto did a great job developing the relationship between Thomas and Remy and Samara. Initially thinking they had to travel and battle on their own, … Continue reading Reviews Are Coming In!
If we were having coffee today, July 12th, I’d invite you to sit outside with me. It’s a perfect summer day. I’d ask you to get comfortable. We have a lot of catching up to do! Yesterday, my sister and I spent the day at the beach. We chatted as we watched my nephews swim in the ocean. Ours is a small beach and we … Continue reading If We Were Having Coffee…
Smiles and a promise back when time moved slowly… delicious in daily tasks satisfying in simplicity Sometimes we’d sleep on the porch lit with candles and let the ocean breeze wash away our troubles Single-handed focus on dreams meant for a life we had planned, not knowing where our path would lead, back when the future was yet reimagined Somehow we made it through twists … Continue reading Mother’s Pride
Sometimes below the tears that fall gently like the summer rain resolve falters and that brave front weighs too heavy Somehow among the rack and ruin you find the courage to fall into the unknown and release the desperation Grief is like that States of emergency muddled with stress and too many decisions disappear or at least rearrange and those hands that you’ve clenched and … Continue reading On Loss, Again
