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Continue reading →: somber mood
I wake up each morning with a heaviness that feels impossible to shake. The world seems quieter now, like something essential has been taken out of it. Grief lingers in the smallest moments, in the pauses between breaths and the silence of familiar rooms. I keep expecting to hear his…
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Continue reading →: E is for Easter
Welcome to my letter E post in the blogging A to Z challenge. This year for A to Z I am writing a poem a day! Letter E is for Easter! Soft bells echo in the morning air, A hush of springtime everywhere, Petals wake from winter’s sleep, While golden…
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Continue reading →: I don’t forget
I don’t forget I don’t forget— that’s the thing no one tells you about healing. It isn’t a fire that burns everything clean, isn’t a tide that takes the wreckage out to sea. It’s quieter than that. Crueler, sometimes. I remember the way it hurt like my body had learned…
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Continue reading →: Grief buried beneath the surface #w3 prompt We’ave written weekly
Under still water, nothing seems to move, Yet whole storms sleep in its quiet blue. A smile rests easy on the face above, While roots below twist tight with truth. Words go missing where the silence grows, Packed in the chest like unshed rain. No echo answers what the heart…
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Continue reading →: The Sunday whirl wordle #751
Brenda is our host…thanks, Brenda! Wordle 751 « The Sunday Whirl On Easter morning, the village felt oddly quiet, as if something ravenous had passed through in the night and taken the usual joy with it. Clara stepped outside, clutching her basket. The air was cold, and a strange stillness…
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Continue reading →: Complain
I woke before the morning did, to grumble at the quiet light, to find some flaw in birdsong’s bid and argue with the end of night. The kettle sighed—I sighed much more, the toast too pale, the coffee bitter, a world of small annoyances arranged for me to pick and…
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Continue reading →: 3things…wriggle, wrinkle, wiggle
A wrinkle woke up on my sleeve one day, And said, “I’m tired of lying flat this way!” It gave a little wriggle, then a wiggle with flair, And suddenly started dancing like it hadn’t a care. It wriggled past my elbow, did a loop-de-loop spin, Then wiggled at my…
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Continue reading →: Sen-hai Saturday #46
Wide canyon breathing A silver stream threads the stones Echoes drift like mist Tourists take selfies Beside ancient, silent rocks Stream keeps ignoring SenHai Saturday #46 – I Write Her
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Continue reading →: Happy Easter!
Happy easter to everyone I hope you enjoy your easter Sunday! I am still at mom’s, I’m heading home tomorrow. I was going to go today but I need groceries and the grocery store is shut. My sister offered to take me tomorrow and then drop me home afterwords. So…
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Continue reading →: April birthdays #SLS
This week for song lyric Sunday, our challenge is to find a song by an artist whose birthday is in April. I like this challenge! My birthday is on April 19th, so it will be cool to research this topic and see which musicians were born in April. Okay, here…
