2022 Creativity Project -Feb. 13

Waiting for a Valentine – © Jo Ann J. A. Jordan

HAVE FUN

He says it often
When I go to his office
“Have fun,” no reply –
I choke back derision, tears,
Another lifetime maybe;
Someone, not myself,
Loneliness consumes my hope
Popcorn kernels devoured
By shadows made shades of days
Spent uselessly trying to find
A moment shaped like escape.

Happiness I have held
Newborn in my hands, nursed
It, gave it the best of me;
Now, it riddles off deficiencies
Destroying the myth of my success,
Once counted against hurts flung
Like arrows before and become
My brokenness, where I dwell
A crab hidden in a brittle shell
With crumbly walls and places
Where the water gets in, annoying,
Terrifying as the passage, days.

Sleepless with suffering, pain,
Exhaustion tears leisure
Fun away, running me to circles
Deep purple, blue-black under eyes
Which watched cherished dreams
Disperse with those vowed forever.
“Have Fun!”
Dare I try?
Will time perhaps give me this
Yet more, the joy of Love redeemed;
I guess it might be like tomorrow,
Known, but not presently seen,
A work in progress, to be inspired,
A vision unrequited, still afire,
A belief that is never let die.

2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 12

Moonlight Symphony

Can you feel the kiss
Of the light upon your face,
The breezy caress
Coming to you from deep space,
Love for you in every trace?
Are you open to
Songs finding their way to you,
Whispering your name?
So many gifts time brings, romance,
Love chooses heartstrings to woo.
How precious are you
The moon in a sky, you light –
Illuminating
Night, dance around and around
A delightful perfection of sound.
Always cherished
A moonlight symphony in motion
Eliciting continual devotion –
Love lifting high, bringing round,
A partner in you now found.

PROMPT
It is time, you know, time for the love creations. Even if you are not a poet, you might give it a whirl for your best guy or girl. If you lack romance, write as if you caught a glance.

Gratitude List
1) I went to Sam’s today.
2) Newsboys.
3) Having an extra screen protector.
4) Strangers assisted me because I was having difficulty.
5) Airheads.

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Smile, you are a gift from the Hand of the Creator and have infinite worth. Love is your birthright and your destiny.

All the things you find on Haphazard Creative are © Jo Ann J. A. Jordan.

2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 11

Frogs Round Pond – © Jo Ann J. A. Jordan

WHAT is NEXT?

When the tide is out
The sun gone beyond the edge
Color fades from Winter friezes
Dogs are all off their leashes
No one listens to one who teaches
Each paper sings variants of the blues
Songsters lament the financial news
Restaurants run short of every condiment
Virologists debate safety confusing us
Inflation has another round at the gates
Climatologists think dates are running very late
This phone, that phone, add status + pizzazz
Libraries make a late-inning pro-comeback
Periodicals become counterparts to dinosaurs
Pen + paper enjoy a modicum of popularity;
Who, one wonders, are people in these disparities?

Some desire new overtures of romance, kiss
Other days blanket forts seem adequate, bliss
Dressing up to the nines feels great sometimes
But who can spare an effort the costumes to find?
Those who will – make ostentatious video
Hoping to gain sponsors to the show
Yet, simple as hours continue to flow
Today follows yesterday, predates tomorrow
And if people allow it, LOVE prevails as it goes.

Prompt
It is a Friday sort of day, and I am running on fumes. Ask yourself a question, as specific or ambiguous as you dare, and create something from there.

GRATITUDE
I am thankful:
1) I am mobile
2) I write my schedule most days
3) Burning out seems more likely than fading away
4) Love Wins
5) Neal Stephenson writes incredible tales.

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Roll with the punches and remember at the end, LOVE is all there is.

© Jo Ann J. A. Jordan

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2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 10

Prompt

What or who is your spark? When you call upon deep motivation, how does it manifest? Create something that symbolizes your vitality.

Loose

The love-ly life-time
Is the moment creation
Sparks into places
Unimagined, leads higher
Than, there exists right to dream.

Testing the wind-blown breeze
Tasting Love in the air, free
Believing despite
A treacherous heart, doubt-filled,
A detective sorting clues.

Singing a new song
Unpublished, never performed,
Still clearing the silence
Measuring the notes, fitting words
Hallowing the Savior, Love.

Poetry pours out
Like floodwaters from downspouts,
A spider seeks sun,
A courtship began anew
Becomes brighter, lighter hue.

Taken by hand, head,
Heart – given what passes for
Music on clear page –
To devotion forever
The Lord Jesus Christ – soul saved.

Gratitude List
I am thankful:
1. I slept well.
2. The injuries from my fall seem minimal.
3. The books I am reading.
4. Having an unusual mind.
5. This life with which I have been so manifoldly blest.

I hope you found something to spark your interest at Haphazard Creative today; I would be grateful if you clicked like, followed the site, returned often, and shared this with others who might find it to their taste. Comments, ideas, suggestions, and work derived from the prompts I share are always welcome.

Hoping you have a splendid weekend and that you have gotten or made something delectable for your sweetheart. Time is, you know, running a bit short, and the stores will be putting out Halloween merchandise any day now.

2022 Creativity Project – Feb. 9

Prompt
When you see, do you? When you know, do you? When you listen, do you hear? Explore and create.

The Page Zone
Life begins, certified,
Mother_often_Father:
Name, weight, length,
Prints; fingers, hands,
Toes, feet – absence, presence,
Entrance – cries, Time, beginning,
Gathering days, years, reams
Expended in documentation,
Education, personal formation.

Creation – becomes a diversion,
Words like biscuit crumbs
Left by writers unlocking
Doors unknown until
Taken there, discovering life
Or some facsimile, opening
The verbal tendency which
Sudden makes prints as
Individual as taken at birth –
The voice a whisper escalating
Toward a scream with every
Stroke quoting self on what
Life shows: dreams, hope, visions,
Explanations of being, Love, meaning.

Cellphones, with inborn editing, allow me to change reality in lines at file.

Google gives those who partake, all-knowing. I often refuse to invoke the monster.

Sound is it, echoes, or just white-noise? I listen to the story while experiencing another story.

Gratitude List
I am thankful:
1. Sleep is not forever, but near enough.
2. Heroes.
3. Sometimes finding the vein.
4. Collecting.
5. What is worse, morphing to the acceptable.

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