look around a bend
starting of a new journey
what will future hold
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what will future hold
my imminent decay
this life is so brief
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this life is so brief
capture the sun’s warmth today
fear not coming night
Over at Carpe Diem by Kristjaan the Tarot card prompt is death. Though the card is symbolic, so much of our world goes through the cycle to get to the other side.
Photograph: “Water’s Edge” L. Moon 2012
The verse is overlaid on a photograph that captured the color spectrum in a pool
I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: The Beach!
Photograph: “The Cali Coast” copyright L. Moon 2011
Beyond the waves I sail on by
loving life and reasons why
Beyond the sun I run my race
to distant time and faraway place
Beyond half moon I’ll trace a smile
write in the sands escape awhile
The prompt at Word Press Daily Post Photo challenge is Escape. Who wouldn’t want to escape into the warm or brisk tides of the California coast or the boardwalks of the East Coast. Escape into the foamy blue…
photography: Sea Foam , Days End, Cali Coast L. Moon copyright
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Where does inspiration for the work you write come from?
When you see a smile on a child or on a kite do you craft a poem with butterflies and streamers as your subject matter?
There are probably those sorrowful/ tender moments that could be inspired by a broken winged bird. What words flow from your pen in a tear?
Did you have a day where someone left the cake out in the rain and the London Broil on the grill has bird droppings? What fire burns deep in the ink well then?
What about a reflection of beauty that can’t be contained? What glories are painted with each word of your sunset?
Words are like dubloons. Each piece leads the way to more. Scatter the words and the reader goes on an excursion for meaning and at the end may have found buried treasure.
This week I have two pieces of short fiction/ prose out in the blogsphere. One piece that is being written as a serial (for Baker’s Dozen) is quite intriguing. So far there has been a cryptic message on a computer, two IT buildings have blown up, tanks are marching down the main road, two survivors are hiding out in a parking garage with no answers and no where to hide, an NSA agent just turned up out of the blue, and I just introduced a history to a pendant around one of the men’s necks…
I am still grappling with writing dark poetry/prose; this week’s dark poem may reflect the day that I wrote the piece.
In my prose “Beast Below”, which can be found at Pen of the Damned, 
I was inspired by a rainy day rumbling of our German Shepard who was bored of being indoors.
It sounded like Savannah was pulling the walls down below me. We often call her “beast” because she is so strong ( she still is a rambunctious puppy.)
The floorboards began to push up from under me, my dear family upstairs began to whimper in despair and then the voice… A deep guttural question emerged from the lips of the beast. A cold, callous fiery eyed beast sat beside me. A deal with the beast was struck. In the end there were no winners…
Ahhh Inspiration where do you emerge from, where do you run???
Would love to know where your inspiration hangs out and how you get it to come out to play?
aqueduct-sarah-ann-hall
No one in NewCago remembered why the area was barred.
One man went exploring with waders on. Before dawn, he pulled a body out of the aqueduct. The on-duty police were happy behind their bars so no one observed the nightly doings of the man in muddy brown. He called them “subjects.” They were- Subjects of Doom.
Pets were found with life sucked out of them and now a few elderly.
Sam encountered a “subject” on his night off. “More like a shadow taking what it doesn’t possess…” He shook with trepidation.
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Weekly Rochelle at Friday Fictioneers hosts a 100 word Flash Fiction. She gives us a photograph as a prompt and then the Fictioneers let their imaginations go. Today the picture is shared by Sarah Ann Hall. Come by and read the fantastic fiction being written this week.
This is another 100 word offering being added to a growing series of stories all set in NewCago. There are many loose strings, unanswered questions about this metropolitan society that is sinking into the mire. Sam seems to be the only one to keep the bad doings at bay but how much longer???
Week 8 in Newcago serial No place to hide
Week 7 in Newcago serial They were Pink
Week 6 In Newcago Serial You poison filled wasps
Week 5 in Newcago Serial The Doom Cycle
Week 4 in Newcago Serial Helpless
Week 3 in Newcago Serial When the Lights Go On
week 2 in Newcago Serial Can’t Kill The Thirst
Week 1 in Newcago Serial Secret Weapon
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