Prompt: Write a self-portrait using an uncommon action as a metaphor for your life. I’ve always been the best at hiding invisibility’s my secret power no one will find me out as long as I make myself smaller my biggest fear is blowing my cover for what if when I show myself my presence is…
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April 2019 Napowrimo-Day 7
Napowrimo Day 7: Write a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give someone else? Be kind to yourself, my girl And listen to the songs Of sunrises and dreams you’ve missed Find that child you were She was never lost She may not…
April 2019 Napowrimo-Day 6
Prompt: write a poem that emphasizes the power of “if,” of the woulds and coulds and shoulds of the world. If words would make you love me I’d write a thousand songs A million poems Until you fell under my spell If dreams would make you see me My ghost would continue To haunt your…
April 2019 Napowrimo-Day 4
Write about sadness through simplicity playing with sonnet form. I should just delete those photos from my birthday Getting old has become more cursed than blessed Last year, I realized no one and nothing stays the same When the candles were blown out and everyone left He left. And so did my childhood. My birthday…
April 2019 NaPoWriMo-Day 2
Day 2 of Napowrimo. Prompt is to write a poem that ends on a question. I wear my best invisible reflection through the mirror read the invitation and show to the party 44 minutes too late I whisper hello but they laugh loud voices absorbing my energy so I wave and try and try to…
Ice-Fingered Mists & Truffle-Topped Monasteries
I have a frenemy. Her name: Descriptive Writing. She is difficult to figure out, elusive and slippery, and sometimes I get the feeling that she despises me. At times she’s willing to have a heart-to-heart chat over coffee, only to rush off mid-sentence for no apparent reason. But then there are times when she bares…
Words
The words we speak are more important than we sometimes think. Are we using them to disparage or to encourage, to tear down or build up? I admit I oftentimes am quick to criticize other people. If someone’s actions don’t hold to my own desires and goals, I grow impatient and lash out. If someone’s…
Fighting Curses with Blessings
Sleeping curses, killing curses. Hexes and black magic used to maim and hurt, to take away another’s happiness, to crush hope. I’ve always thought they only existed in fairy tales. In real life, though, I see curses as metaphors for some misfortune, calamity, or hardship in a person’s life—alcoholism, marriage problems, illness, anger issues. But…
Untold Tales by a Whimsical Wallflower 