DREAM BIG

 Daily Prompt: Kick It by michelle w. on January 3, 2013 What’s the 11th item on your bucket list?   Since it fits the daily prompt I am reposting my bucket list!   Well as you can see below number 11 is to someday sell the notes I write in a Cafe for a fortune. …

DIE KISSING

Writing Challenge: New Year’s Resolutions (Doompocalypse Redux) I have already packed 2012 into a trunk and stuck it somewhere in the furthest reaches of my mind. Maybe it was the loss of a dear friend, Rob, who I will forever miss. Maybe it was the other losses we endured; my beautiful friend lost her son, my…

THE ABBY NORMAL HEART

Have you ever seen Young Frankenstein?  If not you should, Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman are genius.  Anyway, I am frustrated…and for some reason I thought of this scene.  I am frustrated because I feel like Frankenstein sometimes.  I guess maybe we all do.  Like we were built wrong…well duh…none of us are perfect right? …

VIOLENCE ON CANVAS

Written by BrandonBored and HastyWords Is it fate Or beginner’s luck The respawning life Of the face you struck   The devil looks up Surprised by you He has taken notice Of the things you do   Dragon’s breath With words that burn She’s suffered enough I welcome your turn   With total disrespect Your…

YOU CAN’T PLAY

A couple of months ago my daughter came home and quite simply said…I hate being left out.  Some kids on the playground formed a group to perform in the talent show and kicked her out saying they don’t need a 4th.  Yea…rejection sucks.  Being forgotten and ignored sucks.  Yet it is a part of life…

ONLY IF

Daily Prompt: Forever Young If there were a real Fountain of Youth, would you drink the water? As long as I could share with my family and the friends I have spent my life getting to know! I would only drink From the Fountain of Youth If I could share the cup with YOU  

LOVE IN THE STREAM

Written by PassionWriting and HastyWords The breeze caught my eye Stuck in a nearby tree I watched mesmerized As it danced in front of me Dumbstruck and caught in the moment I was enjoying the beauty, Contemplating the harmony And singing to the beats of love. I am not sure when it happened Only that…

DECEMBER ALREADY?

    My daughter woke up December 3rd and said, “Well I guess Santa didn’t send his elf to hide for me this year.”  UGH it’s December already????   “Oh honey maybe he is just hiding really, really well and you haven’t found him yet!”  Cut to mom calling dad and telling him to find the…

I WISH YOU COULD SEE

Written by BrandonBored and Hastywords I know when you cry Because clouds appear Rain falls from the sky And the worst is what I fear   The storms gather fast Trapping us both in its path How long will it last This self imposed wrath   Tears, hard and fast These clouds will not part…

FREE FALLING

Written by DayDreamDaisies and HastyWords     Your mourning, blue lips And the searching transparency Of the morning light Pushes us under the rhythm of life   Free falling, closed eyes Into desecrated fields Bodies sleeping cold and blind Waiting for the ghosts of denial to hunt again   All those gaunt prisoners on display…