Writer, Artist, Photographer
04 May 2012 Leave a comment
The world of childhood, did it die, or did the childish – I
Lately, I’ve gone searching here and yon and in dark corners
of my mind – she’s there, I know it.
What great calamity sent her hie to hide
away from day
What was the final injury; what sight; what slur,
what fall for her
was the one that brought the words
no more
enough
I try so hard to remember; I seek to ask, but she flees through veils of
of years denied through rooms long dark, and halls of dust echo
ancient tears she cried
enough
03 May 2012 Leave a comment
You know
I do not really care
and I know
you do not even dare
to talk at length of our relationship.
Lest some not-so-well-meaning soul
should drop a casual word
and someone who shouldn’t
heard
then where would we be
you
and I
and she.
01 May 2012 Leave a comment
The A to Z Challenge is over and I need a new focus, but I still have poetry on the brain. This one’s a not quite haiku.
Nightscape
soar star soul cross the
velvet dark of space and time
sensual shadow
bespeak, be lie
30 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Day 30 (final day) of Blogging from A to Z.
Today’s letter is Z.
Za Zen Zoa, we
on cushions voicing prayers
midst empty forests.
(c) Perle Champion.
29 Apr 2012 1 Comment
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Day 29 of Blogging from A to Z is a Sunday and according to the rules it’s a day off. Tomorrow is Monday and the challenge ends with Z. I’m pondering it.
I discovered blogging in 2007 when I, along with 400 other people, was laid off from Saks. “Hey, I write every day in my journal, how hard can it be?” I smugly thought until blogger’s block reared its ugly head. Truth is, it is not as easy as I thought it would be, and not everything I write in my journal has any place in a public forum (amazing that some people don’t understand that). And in the years since I began, I found it hard to post my blog on a regular basis.
But I realized something about myself. I’m deadline driven, and I keep my word. So I signed up January 1, 2012 to take the 365 day (plus 1 for leap year) blogging challenge. In order to keep that commitment, I must post a blog by or before midnight each day. I’ve posted a few only minutes before. Right now as I type, it is 11pm and the minutes race ahead of me.
In April, I took the Blogging from A to Z challenge. I figured, I’m committed to posting a blog a day anyway, let’s add a month with the alphabet as a prompt. It’s working.
I may need to find a new series of prompts for the next 9 months of the year.
Writing is like any discipline. The more you do it the more you can do it.
I’ve taken one page from a friend who used to work for a newspaper. She had to write stories on demand on a daily basis. There is no time to think, rethink or overthink. You must simply make a decision, throw a rough draft on the page, hammer it out until it takes shape and get it done then move on to the next one.
I’ve taken another page from an on-line friend who said ‘give yourself permission to be mildly creative’. That permission freed me to crank out the words. Some will be true gems and that’s great, but some will be only mildly creative and that’s okay.
© Perle Champion
27 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Day 27 of Blogging from A to Z. Today’s letter is X.
X is for Xerophyte, Xeric and Xylem
Desert
Meridies cloaked – gone
Xerophyte’s Dew kiss – Xeric
store and Xylem stash.
26 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Day 26 of Blogging from A to Z. Today’s letter is W.
Winter wends it’s way
succumbing to Spring clad arms
spent before Summer.
25 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Day 25 of Blogging from A to Z. Today’s letter is V
Desert’s vast vista
Runs beyond earth’s very curve
Veiled behind heat’s folds.
24 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Day 24 of Blogging from A to Z.
Today’s letter is U.
Undaunted urban
urchin cloaked in velvet night
moon’s light exposes.
23 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Day 23 of Blogging from A to Z. Today’s letter is T.
T is for Tease, Taunt, Terrorize. Just a few T words that all mean one thing – Bullying.
The bully’s excuse, “I was just teasing”, is not longer acceptable. It never was although school, parents, and students, society in general let it slide.
They all turned a blind eye. No more. Recognize it when you see it. Take a stand, a loud vocal stand, against it. Report it.
Teasing begets taunting begets terrorizing.
Perle Champion 