Waiting
written by: Siva Lakshmi
 

Haven't been to a funeral in years
There is one late this morning
Heart attack dropped an acquaintance
Fabulous! Who'd miss a funeral?
Waiting in the viewing line
Amidst tears and tissues, #Fiction #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity

The beginning. Or, the end?
written by: Debbie Tunstall
 

Peri-what, apocalyptic?

Before the ending
to all endings

(brief pause)

I am the furnace
inside a furnace
with Jupiter-sized spots.

Not to mention the mass
of many #Spillwords #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Literature #Poetry

A Plea
written by: Tasos Kyrtasoglou
 

I make a plea to you,
you with the tear suspended in your eye
and a darkened sealing on your lips.
Let not the dance of Time be lost—
though countless rights have perished
with those who #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Literature #Fiction #Poetry

The Alchemy of Then
written by: Jim Bates
 

Memories oh the memories
The old alchemist stirring
Magical moment meandering
A mother’s stern yet loving look
A father’s happy but fleeting smile
Brothers running jumping laughing
Good #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Literature #Poetry

All In
written by: E. F. Schraeder
 

As I ask,
is all information
adequately insightful,
artfully, interestingly arranged?

Indisputably!
alarmists interrupt—

Artificial?
Indeed. Albeit intriguing,
an intelligence?
Ahem. #Literature #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Spillwords

No Words
written by: Andrea Walker
 

I don’t recall how I sat down when they rang to tell me you’d shuffled off this mortal coil. Did I flop down? Did my knees buckle? I was near the bed, with a coffee awaiting my return (it never got #Fiction #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Lotus
written by: Fiza Amir
 

A mind once a galaxy of thoughts, now merely mist,
Hiding from the sun, she sits — beneath the table, fist clenched.
While crimson butterflies on her cheeks are in tryst,
She holds her knees tight, arms #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Literature #Poetry #Spillwords

Central Hospital
written by: Ray Miller
 

A knowledge of History and English Lit
shone as brightly as candlelight
in those mazy and murky corridors.
The front wards housed the acute admissions:
Jane Austen coupled with Thomas #Fiction #Literature #Poetry #Spillwords #WritingCommunity

Sea Bled Eyes
written by: Johnch
 

The light grows as the slit widens
Letting the day of dull and gloomy
Find its way into the dark hallway.
Painting the shadows of furniture
In low relief, dust held against the wall
Of memories #Literature #Spillwords #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry

The Path of the Albatross
written by: N.A. Johnson
 

The novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky once scribed that thinking too much was a disease; I pondered if I was dying from it. If a term existed for the ailment, I didn’t have the proper #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Literature

Blue-eyed American Jesus
written by: Richard Wall
 

I got a blue-eyed, American Jesus,
In a picture on my trailer wall,
He’s been talking to me while I’m sleepin’,
Since I’s baptised in the river, y’all.

I don’t believe in no #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Literature #Poetry

The Cycle of Leaf
written by: Carol Bennetts
 

Along the deserted Galveston beach at the west end of town, a lone animal trots along the sand. The shy creature sniffs the air in the hope of a tasty dinner. The rare coyote-red wolf #Spillwords #Fiction #Literature #Poetry #WritingCommunity

What Goes in the Camera
written by: Dean Hahnenberg
 

Joel could smell the woods, the understory. He could almost smell the damp that he felt on his skin. The sounds his boots made crunching into dead leaves. The slight breeze he could #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Literature #Poetry #Fiction

Two Muses & a Poet
written by: Ernest Federspiel
 

The time spent alone, without you in my head
Reveals the space you cluttered and left behind
A dam opened up; thoughts began to stream out
From Dawgy Daddy's once unpeaceful insane #Poetry #Fiction #Spillwords #Literature #WritingCommunity

 first walnut leaf falls
written by: Steliana Cristina Voicu
 
first walnut leaf falls
beyond the garden gate…
I make a shelter
from the old mailbox
for my hedgehog
 

NOTE:

Based on the Prompt - The First Leaf To Fall #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Literature

Key
written by: Finley Ankrim
 

I see you through the lens of a fading photograph.
My Polaroid camera is collecting dust in the drawer where I keep memories of you.

The bracelets we made, the journal I kept of qualities of yours I #WritingCommunity #Literature #Poetry #Spillwords #Fiction

You Are My Path
written by: Jasna Gugić
 

So often I stand
and simply watch you
in the silence of life’s temples,
as you bless all that lies before me
and clear the paths I walk
the paths that once led nowhere
while your prayers #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Literature #Fiction

Moonstone
written by: Steliana Cristina Voicu
 

When the Sky turns his head towards unlit,
Sipping from the clouds covering his eyelids,
The Moon raises its tremble gaze,
Forgetting in the water her silver dress.

It’s barely noon. #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Spillwords #Literature

Hand in Hand written by: Fatima Nazifi - My acceptance letter just came. I called you immediately, Grandpa... #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Literature #Poetry #Spillwords

The Hive
written by: Roni Blooms
 

I don’t know how this happened.
I don’t know who awoke my heart
at such an inconvenient time.

It was peacefully beating
as I walked through chaos.
It was peacefully beating
to the rhythm of #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Literature