Tag: free writing
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Re: Body and Mind
…If your mind is boring you, enter the physical body and atmosphere: put on an outfit you feel like wearing, adjust the clothes comfortably, moisturize, tie a soft hair tie around your hair, notice it didn’t come as a finished ring, and position the tie around your hair, tightly and loosely, comb loose strands with […]
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Indoors, Mostly Forget the Sky for Now, Pt. 1
October 29, 2022, 8 pm night For tonight, let’s be indoors…Close and roll down the blinds, open partway, the stars are lit just a little, lamplights for relaxation and silent reading. I raced you to the chair: I think I got there first, am very fast. I like how you have better jokes. 😉 last […]
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Stanza by Stanza: A Poem in the Making, Verse Two
This is my poem in the making. 🙂 When I reach the last stanza, I will revise it as much as I’d like and then post it all as one complete poem with a title… But I will also stop the “live verse by verse” midway and compose the second half of the poem off […]
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“Dhakeeyun”
OCTOBER 23, 2022 As a quick, clear comprehension of something deep that’s been spoken. The title “Keys” I’d first wrote was similar, and even in the singular, the “key” still sounds to me like something is locked up and irretrievable, which is the opposite of what I’d meant to express. In this poem, it’s “no […]
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Just Because
… 2. One line poem in a minute or less: How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed; I want to kiss as a practice. 😘 (The post’s title is an implied last line of this poem’s first line I’d not known I was going to write, […]
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‘Please Forgive Me’—Rumi
I found the book I must’ve opened some months ago that wasn’t at the store last week; it wasn’t there but I see it in my above photo, so I know what to look for…I think it was Rumi: The Book of Love. 🙏💕📖 —Jade …from another book, a poem by Rumi …The miracle-signs: you […]
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Five Minute Friday: Beautifully Brave
This is my first time participating in Five Minute Friday hosted by The Gypsy Mama. The rules are to write for five minutes without editing or over-thinking your writing. It’s like “finger painting with words.” I wrote this exercise by hand first and then typed it up. ***I am brave. I am cowardly. Could it […]
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A Blush of Dawn Kind of Morning
Reading through old journals and notebooks is my favorite way to reminisce. Here is an excerpt from a “Morning Pages” entry I found in one of my many notebooks: As I sit down to write, the sky is on my mind. The sun is just beginning to rise and transform the sky from pale and […]