Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are buckle, evade, wedge
Just a Matter of Time
He tightened his buckle
trying to evade my gaze
eyes anywhere but me
the big clock was ticking
time dripping, eroding
the soft swaddling fabric
that we had used to disguise
the huge wedge, driven deep
into the tiny hairline cracks
that had now opened up
wider than a chasm
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Jingle Bells - Saturday Centus Week 34
Week 34 of Saturday Centus the prompt is to use up to 100 words (not including the prompt) using the line "The white-bearded fat man rolled through the church doors..."
JINGLE BELLS
The white-bearded fat man rolled through the church doors. . .
He'd known it was going to be one of those nights as soon as his wife handed him his freshly laundered red suit, one look had told him that it had shrunk.
The children all over the world were expecting him, he had a deadline to keep!
So she'd handed him her flowered bath robe assuring him that it was dark and no-one would know.
It had been fine until the Hendersons chimney but now the whole town was chasing him, forcing him to seek sanctuary. . .
In hindsight he realised that he should have remembered to put on his pants.
JINGLE BELLS
The white-bearded fat man rolled through the church doors. . .
He'd known it was going to be one of those nights as soon as his wife handed him his freshly laundered red suit, one look had told him that it had shrunk.
The children all over the world were expecting him, he had a deadline to keep!
So she'd handed him her flowered bath robe assuring him that it was dark and no-one would know.
It had been fine until the Hendersons chimney but now the whole town was chasing him, forcing him to seek sanctuary. . .
In hindsight he realised that he should have remembered to put on his pants.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Lessons to be Learned
Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are educate, object, silence.
Lessons to be Learned
The tree and its arthritic branches
clawed at the thick white sky
hoping to educate the
young and foolish,
teach them of winter
and her hard fingers.
And they who were dreaming
of snows soft blankets
to swaddle them
and make them beautiful,
had not yet heard the silence.
Towering evergreens protecting
the feathered flying ones,
they knew the secrets.
And those who had been blessed
to bear the blood red berries,
must learn to never object
to the pecking of the
sharp yellow beak
of the blackbird,
as he swallows
their fruits
whole.
Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are educate, object, silence.
Lessons to be Learned
The tree and its arthritic branches
clawed at the thick white sky
hoping to educate the
young and foolish,
teach them of winter
and her hard fingers.
And they who were dreaming
of snows soft blankets
to swaddle them
and make them beautiful,
had not yet heard the silence.
Towering evergreens protecting
the feathered flying ones,
they knew the secrets.
And those who had been blessed
to bear the blood red berries,
must learn to never object
to the pecking of the
sharp yellow beak
of the blackbird,
as he swallows
their fruits
whole.
Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are educate, object, silence.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Choice - inspired by Three Word Wednesday
Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are dabble, lean, utter.
C H O I C E
She could no longer bring herself
to utter his name
or let the galloping wild horses
of her impatience
continue to assign the blame
for it was she
who chose
to dabble
with glass
and with darkness
and the cracks in the curtains
just made her lean further
away from
the light
C H O I C E
She could no longer bring herself
to utter his name
or let the galloping wild horses
of her impatience
continue to assign the blame
for it was she
who chose
to dabble
with glass
and with darkness
and the cracks in the curtains
just made her lean further
away from
the light
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
When Darkness Falls - Inspired by Three word Wednesday
Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are judge, nightfall, safety.
W H E N D A R K N E S S F A L L S
Who am I to judge the safety of nightfall
with its yawning mouth and abrupt silence.
Do I not see myself reflected?
with my inner corridors chock full
of absolutes and things that lurk.
Ecstasy too is a possibility
pleasing and assured
the knife edges and all
the forgotten adventures
kaleidoscopes that dazzle
with their fearless symmetry.
Nightfall holds promises that the day could not conceive,
for that is when the things dare to show their true face.
Where illumination is not the reason nor the rhyme,
it is just the gentle breathing of the darkness
and the inevitable quieting of my mind.
Do I not see myself reflected?
with my inner corridors chock full
of absolutes and things that lurk.
Ecstasy too is a possibility
pleasing and assured
the knife edges and all
the forgotten adventures
kaleidoscopes that dazzle
with their fearless symmetry.
Nightfall holds promises that the day could not conceive,
for that is when the things dare to show their true face.
Where illumination is not the reason nor the rhyme,
it is just the gentle breathing of the darkness
and the inevitable quieting of my mind.
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Do You Remember - Saturday Centus week 31
* * * * *
Do you remember that night?
It was so cold that my breath froze
and fell sparkling like tiny diamonds
in the clear night air.
My hand in yours, we stopped and listened
to the freezing white silence
and overhead there were a million stars
twinkling in the endless sky.
We made our way through that wonderland
leaving our footprints four inches deep.
Red holly berries singing against the snow
towering evergreens, the reminders of forever.
Then a warm fire crackling, dancing reflections
in your laughing eyes.
And just to think that all these memories
are stored away, deep down in the bin of
tangled up holiday lights.
* * * * *
Week 31 of Saturday Centus the prompt is to use up to 100 words (not including the prompt) using the line "The bin of tangled up holiday lights..."
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Jump - inspired by Three Word Wednesday
Inspired by Three Word Wednesday this week's prompt words are demise, effort, revival
J U M P
Was it such an effort
such a monumental leap
to jump from the mountain of you
to those low flat plains of me
did you fear your demise
or was the instant revival
of your once flagging spirits
all the reward you needed
J U M P
Was it such an effort
such a monumental leap
to jump from the mountain of you
to those low flat plains of me
did you fear your demise
or was the instant revival
of your once flagging spirits
all the reward you needed
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