The world is there in a drop of water Whispers everywhere. What has been What is And what might be If we only Close our eyes and listen. Copyright Andrea Lundgren 2016 Photo by pippalou, Creative Commons
Tag: Dreams
I try to give my end-of-week post to other authors and bloggers whose work is worth noting. There are so many excellent articles out there, so many good poems and stories and artwork that I want to use my online space, once a week, to share something you might otherwise miss. To see last week’s … Continue reading Spotlight Saturday #18: Must You Write Poetry or Prose?
I try to give my end-of-week post to other authors and bloggers whose work is worth noting. There are so many excellent articles out there, so many good poems and stories and artwork that I want to use my online space, once a week, to share something you might otherwise miss. To see last week’s … Continue reading Spotlight Saturday #17: Starting Over
I try to give my end-of-week post to other authors and bloggers whose work is worth noting. There are so many excellent articles out there, so many good poems and stories and artwork that I want to use my online space, once a week, to share something you might otherwise miss. To see last week’s … Continue reading Spotlight Saturday #16: Taking Wing
I don’t know if I can pen this. I can only ever try. It’s the motion of a dreamer, Catching thoughts as they pass by. But will I still remember, All the words they’d ever say? All the hopes and dreams and whispers, That will never go away. If you find them, would you know … Continue reading The Pulse of a Poet
Crush a soul and all you have Are tears And cries too deep for crying Emptiness expanded Choking pain Crush a dream and all you have Are hopes and wishes And the conviction that conditions Can be changed But crush a life and all you have Worth having Are the dreams and the … Continue reading Elemental
The very last chapter of Laurie Alberts’ Showing and Telling is the best one of all, I think. In it, she writes about beginnings and endings, and she encourages us, as writers, to forget all about making it good and just make it. She writes, “[A]ny way in is a good way in. You can’t … Continue reading Never Mind Formality; Just Write
I get a lot of story ideas from songs, other books, movies, paintings…a plot, character, or emotion will spark an idea, and suddenly I have a germ of a story, nestled in infancy, waiting to be joined to others and make up enough matter for materialization. And then there are the stories of dreams… On … Continue reading Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On