Whispers through my mind
as a sleep meanders all around me
a songbird calls from far away
making me feel uneasy

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Prompt 268

Sinuous
Dreaming
Sparrow

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Prompt 268

Sinuous
Dreaming
Sparrow

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the rain
and streetlight shadows
mix into night's gloom

the rain
and streetlight shadows
hide his tears
and downcast eyes

the rain
doesn't wash away
the shadows
marking his skin

the shadows
make the loveletters
on his skin
hard to read

the shadows lay
wet and heavy
in the rain

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Purplish gray clouds roll in
Unmoving heavy air
Birds are silent
Crickets are to bed
Outside the light looks green
I'm ill at ease
I pray the trees stay standing
Each room the lights are off
But this one
Your letter waits
A few more lines
Before gutters spill over

#sensewrds 267

Kitchen counter studded with popcorn
Remains of the rainy afternoon
A teapot half-filled
Left behind still warm
Tendrils of color swirl slowly
To the deeper levels at the bottom
Down the stairs we went
Leaving it all behind
The scent of love
A rainy afternoon

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#sensewrds 267 written, bruised, skies

She scrawls on herself with a purple marker. Words become temporary tattoos: Misfit. Freak. Crazy Sheep. She's hemorrhaging unbelonging.

She stares at the ceiling, trying to translate heaven. All the angels press down on her before they fall.

I remember the day like it happened this morning. A staff member running into my office her words running like a river. Get online. There was the horror, omnipotent, all consuming. The world literally stopped. #SenseWrds 264 9/11 #writingprompts

Pressed among pages long ignored, the petals flattened, the edges browned, they hold the power of memory raising ghostly encounters with the ease of a kiss hello.
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Blended blue and black ink leave a mark like illiterate hands, pressing, pressing the wrong flesh. The impression left yells to the empty heavens. She longs to hire a plane to inscribe in the vast blueness, be aware, be wary. #SenseWrds 267 #writingprompts

Wounded horizon,
The only thing worth printing,
How to be prepared.
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The twilight
has left me
licking
my wounds.
Engraved scars
that don’t seem
to ever heal.

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the ache
…
He picked up his pencil,
scribbled something
and passed the note to her.

It was past sunset, the evening
colors mirrored the colors
where his hands had been
the colors and the ache
the ache in her arm, her heart,
her soul.
…
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Prompt 267

Breakup ink
The past re-written
Fresh new start

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