07.May.2022. Saturday – Project Creativity

Another House

This novel…
We’ve been writing
Over these many years,
It seems maybe more like
A collection
Of disparate stories,
Playing a soundtrack
Yours and mine –
The music,
Not the voice,
We just hit a groove
Wicked and smooth,
Winning –
Ah, loose like tigers
Jungle bait,
Antelopes far-fetched,
Can you make
The lesson
Stick like darts
On the dress, never
Worn, given out
With drinks
Not ours to consume.
Still, I know,
Some assume,
Illusions dispelled
Yet and soon,
Together forever
In miles set apart
Known, each
And ever
By heart.

This bit of riff is brought to you by listening to VooDoo Lounge, courtesy of The Rolling Stones.

Prompt: What music do you create with? Turn it up, LOUD! Find yours.

Stranger and not, the things that happen when I sit in the dark.

2022. May. 06. Friday. Creativity Project

Tempered

I know…
I didn’t get the memo
I didn’t read the news
Because you never sent them
There was no address to use.
It seems the feeling is gone
It left a salty taste,
Somehow I am lost
Albeit time and space
Do not require my presence.
The entry can be deleted
Freely to finally let go
There alas, is no consequence
No preference left to show
I bow to all, now play.

Tanka/Haiku – 2022 – Post 125

1.
In the opposite
Some direction arises,
The message becomes
The primary objective
When lives require salvation.
2.
Falling all over
Again and wanting, needing,
To be, who ought be.
3.
Dredge river’s desire
Find the love always required
To usher in joy
Enough to make captains leave
Fields astounding destiny.

Penny Reigns

124th entry – 2022 Creativity Project

Penny Reigns

I have a penny
Stored deep within my pocket
It has no value
In today’s daily markets;
A relic of yesterday.

I am set thinking
That time like cursors blinking
Is quick insisting
That forward is all moving
Toward something yet unseen.

Hear the deft music
Playing, urging consistent
Movement surge today
Like pennies, time slips away,
Registers without delay.

I want this moment
And another and after,
Letting yesterday
Become a foreign rumor,
Living purpose, my dreams.

Go far, fast, and free
Find the meaning of all things
Meant to have being
Reaching for true liberty
Confident, courageous life.

Forever and ever
The penny like a melody
Reminds me to give
My best in times made like these
Because excellence matters.

Stand full unafraid
The past cannot drag backward
For velocity
Carries into each second
Such growing humanity.

Day 123 – 2022 Creativity Project

Reading List thus far for 2022

1. Ready Player One (reread) by Ernest Kline - 5 stars
2. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke - 5 stars 3. The Labyrinth of Spirits #4 by Carlos Ruiz Zafron - 5 stars
4. The Source by James A. Michener - 5 stars
5. Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson - 5stars
6. The Storyteller by Dave Grohl - 5 stars
7. The Left Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix - 5 stars
8. Never by Ken Follett - 5 stars
9. Space by James A. Michener -5 stars
10. Bewilderment by Richard Powers - 5 stars 11. The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker - 5 stars
12. The Mammoth Book of Merlin (anthology) by Mike Ashley - 5 stars
13. The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran - 5 stars
14. Madrenga by Alan Dean Foster - 5 stars
15. Revelator by Daryl Gregory - 5 stars
16. Inspired by Rachel Held Evans - 5 stars
17. Preparing for Easter by C. S. Lewis - 5stars
18. Crossings by Alex Landragin - 5 stars
19. The Last Goddess by Katerina Tuckova - 5stars
20. Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry - 5 stars
21. Palindrome by Stuart Woods - 5 stars
22. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig - 5 stars

All of these are phenomenal books. You will do well should you pick up any of the list. There is a mix of older titles and more recent ones. I would do full reviews, but there are too many.

Music, reading, and writing are balms to the soul too wild to slow down. Attention becomes affixed, and gaps in time no longer seem to yawn. Apply the salve to better continue.