It’s Free Write Friday (well, Saturday for me, now) and Kellie Elmore has issued a most intriguing prompt: … use your choice of lines as your prompt. They can be the ending lines of your favorite book, or a favorite poem…whichever moved you the most. You may begin your work with the lines, or simply … More #FWF Free Write Friday: Famous Last Words …
A free-writing rant … ~*~ Minutiae Trifles. Minor details. Pronounced “min-oo-shee-aa.” My description, not the dictionary’s. As cumbersome to pronounce from its spelling as the impact it has on life. Why bother with a trifle? Why write about something so trivial? Because minutiae is not trivial. At least in my life it isn’t. It … More Minutiae … The Muse Interrupted
This week’s #FWF prompt from Kellie Elmore asks us to consider this: Today you have been granted the opportunity to go anywhere, do anything, meet anyone, travel in time…whatever you wish, it is yours. Now, there’s a catch. (Isn’t there always?) When you wake up tomorrow… you will not remember any of it. Would you … More #Free Write Friday: Ponder this … No Thank You
The #Free Write Friday Prompt from Kellie Elmore this week is about running away; finding your freedom from something that stands in your way. Here’s my offering. (And I promise to write something more prose-like soon.) Thanks for visiting … Dorothy 🙂 * Run Away Run away? I don’t think so I’ve done all the running … More #Free Write Friday: Run Away
Planted early, the Seed of Doubt Sprouts of innocence, feigning Constructive criticism Beneath the guise of Concern, when all is but The grasping tentacle of Another’s insecurities. It Binds and strangles The tender blossom born Of love, all the While adopting the Stance of the treasured, Indispensable Flower in the Garden of Creativity. With stealth it … More The Seed of Doubt
Creativity’s on sabbatical ~ Stuffing herself silly With a diet of acute Observations upon which To ruminate and then Digest, I’m guessing, For her next great Creative outburst. And She’s doing it In secret, refusing to Divulge. She simply Whiles away my Precious time Indulging in the world Around her. She offers Tender morsels of Thought; ideas Upon … More Creativity
Shedding Light on the Family Tree 