Writer, Artist, Photographer
05 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
how does one write away a day? 
wine running warm in my veins
wandering from room to room
touching the embroidered duvet
on the futon that is my bed
glance and smile at the flickering candle
on the small altar in the corner of my room
the cat who sits on the stool beside me
knows life times nine and shows
no outward quaver
life surfs on
04 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
we drank and drank sought
oblivion but none came
nor euphoria nor
altered plane
just
a steady numbing yet i
heard it all and saw
it all missed not
a single
thing
he was indeed a poet of
no mean proportion
a short-lived van
gogh of
words
bent to self-destruction on
his path to knowing
no mouth just lips
a line drawn
thin
lids distort the sound of eye
crepe covers brittle bones
dry laughter dying
hardly heard at
all
times i wonder why we bother
what is the draw spoken raw
pleasure pain parallel of
love and hate vicarious
life
do we want too much to feel or
taste anything that we take up
everything so greedily we
chase the siren’s
call
03 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, haiku, Poetry
Fifty thousand words
written in thirty days time
pen at the ready.
The National Novel Writing Month site went live earlier today. I’m registered, of course.
Call us masochists, writers have that streak, but every year at 12:01 a.m. November first we log on by the thousands and commit to write our ‘great American novel’ or at least 50,000 words towards that end.
It’s an amazing challenge, and very many of us get through and beyond 50,000 words. Some continue to edit after November 30, and a rare few persist and actually find their way to a published book.
Those few inspire the rest of us, to come back each year with fresh ideas and go at it all over again. Hope springs eternal.
50,000 words in 30 days; that’s 1667 words a day. It’s doable folks. I intend to use 30 days of my countdown for my nanowrimo novel.
02 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
I noticed the leaves 
this morning as I journaled
every breeze blew their
golden yellow rain
past the sill of my aerie
glad rags to mourning
01 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, haiku, Poetry
I was there with the first myth makers and monks who made up your stories. – Rilke’s Book of Hours
I believe that’s true
I was there then, before, since
At one with I am
30 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry, Uncategorized
no Yang without Yin
we all have that dark within
we must make choices
moment to moment
twixt the two and in the end
we are our choices
29 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
I wrote the poem below, long before this journey began in earnest. I knew then, that I wasn’t following full time, my dream.
Pulled in so many directions by an exceptional (modern terminology for lots of problems) child. It was necessary to have the best job with great insurance and live in the best neighborhood with the best schools with special education programs. After that, a husband with cancer…I won’t belabor the point – I’m sure you get it and I’m not the only one that works the 9-5 and then some to provide for family.
Well those days are long gone and I somehow stayed in that rut. No more. It is so time to move on. I planned this once before (the poem below was written in 2007), but somehow I got sidetracked – not this time. I’m exploring the whispers and giving them form, so it is no longer ephemeral. I’m making ‘real’ the change that once ‘rode the night wind.
my future rides the night wind
ruffles curtains, caresses skin
whispers promises at the edge of dream
leaving traces of something almost seen
28 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
most people hate change
admit it or not they do
poor jk rowling
critics are people
they expect more harry’s world
so pan the new book
I personally am enjoying the book, A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. I’ve just begun, but it’s drawing me in and I’m loathe to turn off the light, but Friday’s a work day. I’ll review the book soon as I can.
27 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
she sat pen in hand
journal open before her
her life paced the lines
glory inglory
marching cadence cross the page
bare and unadorned
26 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, haiku, Poetry
time spent like spare change
change so easily replaced
time forever gone
Perle Champion 