Compositions, Featured Artists

“The Best Job In The World” (Writing Prompt)

It was the day of her last interview which would guarantee her working in her favorite field for $50 million a year, but on her way to it, a car cut her off and caused her car to collide in an accident.

Where many people would get angry, she just cried out loud and clear, “No!”

Then, she jumped out of her car to see if the other driver was ok, fumbled in her wallet and had the driver take a picture of her license and car insurance, exchanged phone numbers for the police and towing to call her, and then began running on her way to the nearest curb for a taxi…

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Compositions

My Best Friend’s Gift

When we were young and together, long before we were married, a friend of my ex’s gave him a ceramic doumbek lap drum with beautiful blues mixed with cream and white, and animal skin drawn tight over a wide, round rim.

Even then, I sensed he was withdrawing (before my twenty-first birthday) – and I pestered and begged him to teach me the drum’s basics, wanting to connect with my musical creativity and him to heal the mysterious rift growing between us.

His obliging had an effect on me akin to what it must have felt like to humans first being granted fire – and became a way for us to entwine and interact through his and my playing synchronous rythms.

This was when we lived in The Old Biddle House on Pepper Street in San Luis Obispo, California, in a room on the Northwest side upstairs, open to the higher tier of a palm tree.

We had our futon bed outstretched, declared rebel independence from parents – and a piece of owl’s under fluff with a flame design in the center wafted in to greet me one day when I sewed our first Ren Fair costumes, alone and listening to Primus performing “Sailing The Sea Of Cheese” and thinking about our relationship.

I still have the feather in a memory box of sentimental jewelry.

Stream of Thought

Rearranged

I had moved the abdominal machine into the inside of my bedroom’s boundary, which shoved it into a dark and cramped corner, making it hard to access and depressing to use.

I figured out yesterday what was bothering me about it, and revamped my room’s enclosure to where the machine is back at open access in the front room, facing outside to look through curtains, should I want to.

Things look more bright and airy.

Poetic Musings

Skattered Truths

Who and what I am is forming, melding, breaking apart and renewing – yet, always the same.

It contains the power of creation and destruction, yet veers away from the insane or inane.

The challenge I have in self redefining is finding a man who can and will do the same.

For if he does not comprehend our nature, our union will have little gains.

Stream of Thought

Bird Speak

I pick up nuances of language, like imprints upon my mind – depending upon who I am frequently interacting with.

So like, when my phone slipped out hanging from my robe as if to angle perfectly – then fell smashing hard against my forefoot, I exclaimed, “Ouch! Bitch – gonna hurt my toe?!”

And then, rubbed my toes roughly to dissipate the pain’s ache, laughing at my capacity ruefully.