Musings

Circle_Something

An Open Letter: Arte's Thoughts

I'm just a visitor, but even I can see what's wrong here.

Dear Humans, You're all so weird! Sorry, let me start that again. I've been on your planet for 35 years. I've witnessed some things that I wouldn't want anyone else to, yet people do. I've seen the world through the eyes of a baby, growing up to become an infant, child, teenager, and finally adult. When I was a baby, things were simple: Cry for attention, sleep most of the time, play for...Read On

Added: 25 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 953 | Tags: arte  planet  alien  love  hate  war  politics   | 3 Comments

Welshdreamer42

Letting Go

Added: 23 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Words: 100 | Tags: mother  daughter  student  2020  100 words     | 12 Comments

maryruth

Always dream

Dreams from the past How things were Of what could be What will be someday Promises to keep Always have and always will Nothing will change Dream and believe The magic Should and will be...Read On

Added: 20 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 35 | Tags: dreams   | 3 Comments

Adagio

Shadows Of

Raining down shadows of cypress leaves. The bog's clock, tick-tocks dark souls, I have known. Paled as heaven's tarnished pewter, walking through the wickets of Hades. As the cicada imps screech, from my mind's journal. The lights wink out as I sleep, a dreamer of dreams. Raining down shadows of cypress leaves. Reaching out to bury me, as the siren's of autumn gives me new life. Caressing...Read On

Added: 18 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 77 | Tags: musing  

TheShyThespian

What Is Life All About?

How I learned a new perspective on life.

Eons ago, when I was young, I lived in submarines. For someone who loves the mountains, it was a silly place to be. I was in an unhealthy space, and close to a nervous breakdown. I spent a lot of time wondering what life was all about. In the end, I decided it didn’t matter. I did, however, come to a conclusion. When I am near the end, and am asked, ‘ Have you done the things you wish...Read On

Added: 14 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Words: 121 | Tags: life  submarine  mountains  achievement   | 6 Comments

KimmiBeGood

Convergence

Prayers are answered, but in unexpected ways...

Each month, I prayed for him. Then, tears fell. She birthed what my empty space desired, but couldn't keep him. Three lives converged through love as she unselfishly placed his tiny hand in mine, writing new stories for us all.       ...Read On

Added: 13 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Words: 40 | Tags: adoption  celebration  love   | 9 Comments

Adagio

Waiting

Without the sun there would be no raining silk  living and breathing in the gospel of my soul  in the silence of raptures of God's shadow  on the bright side of the rainbow far from the dark of past memories  waiting for the chariot to carry me home.  ...Read On

Added: 12 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 48 | Tags: spiritual  musing  

Adagio

Yesterday

Yesterday a butterfly, on the fly today the rain of Spring, April brings then came the rose, with a scent of you touching my nose without arms, just two wings.  ...Read On

Added: 02 Oct 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 30 | Tags: musing  love   | 1 Comment

Adagio

Best Fauntleroy

Particles of death lay beneath stone, of gristle and marrow. Chiseled with reference to. In my slippery state of being bones. Wishing I wasn't alone. Two percent bleach, with a bottle of Red. Butterflies between my teeth with a condiment of being Dead. Dressed in my best Fauntleroy, with the devil in my phone. Connecting me to my widow, beneath another stone....Read On

Added: 28 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 62 | Tags: dark  musing   | 2 Comments

Adagio

COVID-19

Slowly the curtain comes down, dark rises over catacombs and ossuaries of bones  regurgitating the dialysis of my death  as the tallow drips my impending journey awakening a moth of my sinning quill  across the barren lands of COVID-19.   ...Read On

Added: 26 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 39 | Tags: musing   | 1 Comment

Adagio

Puppeteer

The imps of twilight light upon a broken stitch  of life's hypocrisy and death's sewing basket the thimble be mine and thread be strife like a puppeteer in Hell from gothic shell two steps from Sodom and Gomorrah pulling the strings of Armageddon shaking the salt.     ...Read On

Added: 24 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 46 | Tags: dark  gothic   | 2 Comments

LauraDanielle

A telling off

I got told off today. Not unusual at all, really. The little person who told me off has not long turned two, and already she is quite the character. I made the observation to one of my colleagues that she ought to be a teacher when she's older, as she's quite bossy.  I really do enjoy the company of this child. I like all the children I teach, of course, but she and I have this rapport...Read On

Added: 24 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 437 | Tags: daycare  children  funny  playful  toddler   | 5 Comments

Adagio

Shadow Of Gertrude Jekyll

It was a melancholia of the rose, and thorns of my dark compose. With a spiritual ardor of love on the cusp of mysterious. In shadow of Gertrude Jekyll paling to a night shade. As my pen drips it's nectar with a damask fragrance, from the atomizer's mist. Warming me with a kiss beneath the pantomime moon. With a breath of life's refresh. Climbing the trellis at twilight, paling to a night...Read On

Added: 19 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 78 | Tags: musing   | 4 Comments

KimmiBeGood

Spilt Milk

As a child, whether intentional or not by my parents, my impressionable ears heard, "If things aren't perfect, they are awful." You know as well as I do, things are rarely perfect. So, the result was a young girl who experienced anxiety before she even understood what the word meant.  My eyes would zoom in on the one "B" on my report card, unconsoled by the sea of "A"s. I missed all...Read On

Added: 11 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 301 | Tags: imperfections  growth  happiness   | 13 Comments

Wordpusher715

My Truth is Lonely

My Truth is Lonely. I imagine yours is, too. Mine can’t be shared; I suspect the same for you. Truth weighs heavily upon its owner because Truth destroys. Only fools say “Just tell the Truth. It’s the best thing to do.” Revealing a Truth always harms someone it seems. Typically Someone I know. Someone I love. I suspect the same for You. Is Truth measured by the amount of harm it causes?...Read On

Added: 06 Sep 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 173 | Tags: truth  lonely   | 11 Comments

CleverFox

Snot-Nosed Frat Boys

How some people are just rude.

When I started college at Ohio State, I was living in an apartment with two of my older brothers. My third year of college, I had to move into the dorms. When I moved, I had more social opportunities with women. So, I would ask a girl out on a Friday or Saturday, to one of the High Street clubs for some beer and dancing.  More often than not, when I was dancing with my date, a snot-nosed...Read On

Added: 29 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 787 | Tags: dates  dancing   | 3 Comments

Dreamcatcher

Fore!

The worst word in golf. I know, it’s part of the etiquette of the game, but it’s the part we all hate to shout or hear. It’s one of those things in the arsenal of golf, like mulligans and do-overs and foot wedges. Once the dreaded “Fore!” has been uttered, golfers all over the course scramble for trees or wrap their arms around their heads and do the “ants-in-the-pants-dance” like they...Read On

Added: 24 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 743 | Tags: humor   | 7 Comments

Dreamcatcher

This Day and Age

I remember attic fans in the summer and radiators in the winter and if you backed into it trying to get warm, you burnt your ass. I remember linoleum floors. Stovetop percolators. Gas stoves you had to light with wooden matches. I remember glass bottles of milk with cardboard stoppers on the porch. Wall phones with 15-foot cords hanging in the kitchen. Screen doors with long springs...Read On

Added: 22 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 231 | Tags: memories   | 7 Comments

CleverFox

A Goodbye Letter to a Good Friend

All Relationships End in Great Tragedy.

Right now I want to rage as only another redhead can understand. We have only known each other for a few weeks but I think we both felt a connection. I tried to keep myself from becoming too emotionally attached to you too fast but I guess I failed miserably. I woke this morning and I got the message of your passing from your aunt, feeling stunned, and I can feel the...Read On

Added: 21 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 618 | Tags: goodbye   | 4 Comments

CleverFox

How to Have a Merry Christmas (or any holiday).

Don’t get upset at imperfection.

I discovered the secret to having a Merry Christmas long ago. It was Christmas Eve 1993. I stopped by my brother Gene’s home to drop off the presents I had gotten for my nephews, John and Nic. John was 9 years old and Nic was 7 years old. It was about 7 pm and I was invited to go to Midnight Mass. I enjoyed the time before mass playing with my nephews.  I had just been dumped by my long...Read On

Added: 16 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 882 | Tags: legos  family   | 5 Comments

Dreamcatcher

I Am Imperfect

I am imperfect. Made of torn flesh and broken bones. Dreams crushed like stone to gravel and hope wasted on the likes of me.   Once an Alpha dog now relegated to solitaire howling. The younger man in the mirror looks back at the older man he now is and remembers the halcyon days of youth.   Aching muscles lift a decrepit body to bear armor one more day. For each day risen is...Read On

Added: 12 Aug 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 145 | Tags: life   | 7 Comments

chippihc

Enemies and Allies

Individuals are always vulnerable to betrayal.

Medieval times or modern times, knight or soldier, one's word must be believable, and one's actions must follow. It can define you as an enemy or an ally, a friend or a foe. Time and modernity has not changed that measurement of trust. Man or woman, boy or girl, trust can be a treasure. Honor is a gift to yourself. The abandonment of an oath results in loss to both parties. First felt...Read On

Added: 29 Jul 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 100 | Tags: trust  truthful  betrayal  allies  enemies  vulnerable  honor   | 7 Comments

AnnaMayZing

Whew, what a scorcher!

The heat was almost unbearable, reaching thirty-five degrees. Thank goodness for air-conditioning!

Not so very many years ago, I decided it was time for a change of holiday destination. Every December, for the past fifteen years, we had flown to Munich for the Christmas markets. How I love those visits. For the summer holidays, however, we always stayed on home territory. The problem was that I had never driven on the 'wrong' side of the road and it worried me! This particular year, we...Read On

Added: 22 Jul 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 474 | Tags: continent  first time  summer   | 20 Comments

LauraDanielle

Drink of Choice

I had perched myself on the child-sized chair in the family play area, conveniently, this was also right underneath the heat pump. It was icy cold that morning. Two girls were with me, and we were consuming pretend cups of tea and having a good ol gossip sesh. R comes in and asks to join in. The more the merrier, so she proceeds to brew some tea and put some baking in the oven.  "Hey Laura,"...Read On

Added: 10 Jul 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 400 | Tags: daycare  children  funny  teacher  drink  swearing   | 5 Comments

chippihc

Downstream

From sky to land, from high to low, my waters flow to you.

I've traveled many miles before reaching you. Fallen from vast heights, down waterfalls, rivers and through streams. My pollution is minimal as I have always kept moving. Now, I want to be a lake, never to leave you. A sanctuary you are to me. I feel safe, I feel clean, I feel fresh each day. My past is behind me. I have come a long way to be with you. As a lake, we must yet flow a little...Read On

Added: 24 Jun 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 4.91 | Words: 100 | Tags: nature  waterfalls  water  streams  lake  life  past   | 11 Comments

maryruth

Under the mask

Changes have happened New guidelines and rules Old ways are set aside For a time Smile behind the mask No one can see If you stick out your tongue  Or you are teeth free...Read On

Added: 05 Jun 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 34 | Tags: changes.   | 7 Comments

Wordpusher715

Lay Low, My Lady

A Time For Reflection

Added: 16 Apr 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 4.83 | Words: 173 | Tags: reflections   | 5 Comments

Adrienne

The Terribly Cool

A parody

Added: 02 Apr 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 4.5 | Words: 197 | Tags: care home  entertainment  isolation   | 2 Comments

maryruth

To love and dream

Taking the time to know Things are not always as first thought Lips speaking without words Heat in the strength of arms Eyes burning with knowledge The joining of two That become one Twinkling stars smiling In the darkness Nothing can separate Nor come between The strength to love and   See with your heart and mind Desire without sight or sound Only to love and dream      ...Read On

Added: 26 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 66 | Tags: feelings     | 3 Comments

LauraDanielle

Pizza Identity

I was sitting inside at a table with a few children, and we were doing puzzles. It was so hot that we, the teachers, had made the executive decision to bring the kids inside and just chill out. We had Netflix for kids on the TV and some of the children were sitting on the mat and watching. Three of them, actually, had fallen asleep, all in the same position, all facing the same...Read On

Added: 22 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 306 | Tags: daycare  kids  teaching  pizza  identity  funny   | 8 Comments