Silent Connection
Gentle softness
within
the gentle brush
of light and shadow
in silence
the peace
stretches
and the world
stills
until
for the briefest
moment
there is only
you.
creative writing
Gideon’s Challenge
Uncertainty
The fog rises
off the water
to swirl through
the trees
creeping up
from rocky shore
to grassy earth
as it begins
to swallow
all within its path
and solid shapes
become shadows
that ebb and flow
indestinct
and uncertain.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Gideon’s Challenge
Waiting in the Valley
Horizon’s peak
is graced with a
glimmer of light
while the
valley below
lies shrouded
in darkness
and in that valley
the watcher waits
with the echo
of night upon them
as they see
if the light will reach
to warm cold cheeks.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Gideon’s Challenge
The Dawning
Not much color
lives in the world
when
clouds and fog
swirl in the mind
but as the
slightest light
breaks through
a glimmer of color
slips in
to catch the eye
and provide
hope.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Weekly Creativity Prompt – What You Feel
Prompt: Draw a single random card from your favorite deck and share with us how the card makes you feel.
Okay so my first feeling is the need to cover up her nipple. I mean, I’m just sayin’, and I know it’s totally my upbringing but it just… yeah. So anyway. That aside…
What I see in this card is focus. That keen focus that comes with a depth of concentration and investment to here everything else falls to the wayside and all that there is is this one single thing.
Some people call this type of focus “being in the zone” and others call it “flow”. In fact I’m pretty sure that there’s a book specifically about “Flow” and how to harness it for your needs and purposes. I think that some people find this mental space easily… and others have either never experienced it or do not find it easy to sink into that space at all.
I personally find this mental space often and I think that there are times when I find myself “missing time” that in fact what has happened is I have slipped into this “flow” of concentration and just forget to re-emerge for a time. The rest of the world and my actions within it go on autopilot while I am focused so deeply on a concept or idea that I don’t even notice… because for me in that time, nothing else exists.
What this card makes me feel is familiarity. An awareness of those times I have slid into that mind space, and a familiarity with it through observation of the figure in the card also lingering within “the zone” as I so often do when working on something I have a good deal of interest and investment in.
DECK USED: TAROT OF THE HIDDEN REALM
Gideon’s Challenge
The Hungry Earth
Weather
takes its tole
as mother earth
nibbles and nips
at what was built
by hands and nails
She seeks
to tear down
that which is not
of the earth
and take it in
to digest
and make
it hers.
Twisting the Leaf 