Taking a Break
I want to stick
my head
in the sand
and pretend
the world
isn’t there
Insulated
and quiet
with life muted
and worries gone
I can close my eyes
for just a moment
and everything
can be okay
creative writing
Gideon’s Challenge
Time Decelerate
Patience
is a virtue
that is not easy
when heart flutters
and skin tingles
nerves jangle
and every little
movement
of the world
makes it difficult
to sit still
and wait
as seconds tick by
far too slowly
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Gideon’s Challenge
The Subdrop
Delicate
and fragile
vulnerability
creeps
to cover the
hard stone
that lies beneath
developing
little by little
into a fuzz of
crystals
that a mere
breath
can destroy
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Gideon’s Challenge
Little Signs
Winter’s
sparse needles
leave branches bare
as cold nips nose
and brings on tears
but as snow falls
beauty breathes
and in each
remaining needle
a promise lives
that spring is coming
and each passing day
will bring
new life
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Weekly Creativity Prompt – How I Lost My Voice
“Blurring the Lines” Creativity Prompt: “Choose a card to represent a real life experience that happened to you last year (any type of experience counts). Then, randomly draw two more cards, and use them to veer fact off into fiction and expand on your experience with a fictional extension, ending, or additional fictional details.”
Ten of Swords – A mighty crash as door frame and lock shatter. A stranger within my home. A battle waged with ice pick against blade. Pain excruciating, and yet nothing at all, and in the end, the blade won. And then the pain went away and there was only peace, and silence, and stillness.
Six of Swords – Then came a stirring. A pull upon my soul. A glowing thread of comfort and need that drew me from that peaceful place. I followed the thread, seeking to sooth the ache of need felt as it drew me to its end. Bringing me forward through time and space to reunite with that familiar piece of me given to another… and more.
Two of Cups atop Queen of Cups – It lead me to my beloved, who grieved with all his heart. And I knew that I couldn’t go back, and I couldn’t go forward either. I chose to stay here with him. To wait. To whisper comforting and loving words to him in his dreams and sit on his shoulder or tuck in just behind his ear, day in and day out, until he could eventually join me.
DECK USED: LOVELY OM TAROT
Gideon’s Challenge
There’s Still Time
Frustration
turns to a desire
to say
fuck it
and walk away
but I look back
and pause
think again
reconsider
and realize
it’s not as bad
as it feels…
at least
not yet.
Twisting the Leaf 