This post is written in response to Fandango’s FOWC CHALLENGE: LINGER. As this is a Creative Writing Wednesday I am choosing to practice some poetry.
WHY WAIT?
I often linger,
Protecting self interest
Over other’s needs,
Wishing for convenience,
But knowing there will be none.
I am continuing to follow my discipline of creative writing on Sundays and Wednesdays. Today I am writing from a prompt offered by MOONWASHED MUSINGS. Check out the other submissions by clicking the link.
HERE IS THE PROMPT I AM WRITING FROM. I AM CHOOSING TO USE AN OVI FORM TO ANSWER THE PROMPT.
uncertainty
troublesome
much-needed light
FLICKERING CANDLES BURN
by JE Lillie
The world grows dark with shadow’s might.
Forces arise dispelling light.
Hope quelling blackness comes to fight.
Men draw back in fearful corners.
Yet, what the darkness does not know,
Hope is light the heart’s inner glow.
Though crushed to coal it yet will grow.
Flickering candles can still burn.
As part of my life rhythm for 2025 and 2026, I have designated Wednesdays and Sundays as Creative writing days here on LILLIE-PUT. It is time for me to get back to the writing process which I have too long neglected.
So each Wednesday and each Sunday I will be using a prompt either from one of my “Writer’s Remedy” jars or from WordPress. This week I have chosen to practice a new form of poetry called an OVI. This is a form introduced to me by RONOVANWRITES.
You can click the link above to check out the style requirements of the poem if you want to join in. Ronovan’s inspiration subject for our poetry this week is the word: RESPECT
MAKING ROOM
The threads are spinning fast today.
Options increase hiding the Way
Of life. It’s a high price to pay.
We cling to woven forms not ours.
“This land, this cash, this right is mine!”
We shout, we scream, we cry, we whine,
We don’ t know destiny refined?
Chances at brotherhood are lost.
I hear a voice cry, “Please! Respect!
My weaving should have an effect!”
It’s One whose love we should reflect.
We’re pieces of His tapestry.
So, in my thread, I’m making room.
For those who’d come out from the gloom
To spin at the Great Weaver’s loom.
Just parts of the Weaver’s story.
BELOW IS MY SUBMISSION FOR W3 PROMPT 129. IT’S BEEN A HOT MINUTE SINCE I’VE WRITTEN POETRY. I AM NOT SURE OF MY IAMBS AT THIS POINT. IT’S A FIRST STAB AT GETTING BACK INTO CREATIVE WRITING. THANKS FOR THIS GREAT EXERCISE!
LAND AND SEA AND HATE by J.E. Lillie
What heart is there now in this hardened land
That bends the ancient truths of Sovereignty?
Predispositioned to the will of man
All rebels rise, bequeath indignity.
To troubled souls made dumb by double speak.
All hearts are lost in ocean waves of lies.
That beggared sea embroiled with frothy peaks
Pulls down the great ships filled with wounded lives.
The sea meets shore and crashes all the more.
Men flop in shipwrecked garb upon the beach.
And gasp for life against this drowning war.
Then hand grasps hand to break the hardened breach.
A Thing called Friendship now necessitates
We turn the tide of land and sea and hate.
The fragrance of God,
Heated rain battering trees
Reminds me He’s here.
The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW
The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW.
The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW.
****This video was taken on my phone and is best viewed on a phone. It tends to pixellate on a computer screen.
The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW
The Home Photo Challenge was fun for me last year. Since I do not think much is going to be changing for me in the way of travel this year, I am going to continue the challenge for myself into 2021. This year I am going to add a little twist. I will give a brief description of each photo I take and write a Haiku to go along with it
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW
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