Life Happens

Good evening, Dear Reader, and members of the Tribe,

Okay. I have said it before and I will say it again: Writing is HARD. This is why good writers may have a love/hate relationship with it. I may not have posted on Tuesday, as was my goal, but I am now posting for a second time this week. So, I say small victories are good, too.

I have made a little progress on my outline for Pioneer. I have found that my natural ability to be distracted, combined with the demands of my schedule, is a huge obstacle in meeting my goals. However, I am going to meet those goals. So will You. Recently, I thought of a poem I wrote called "Whispers," and it made me think of all of You out there who want to CREATE. We will all light the way for each other. I'm going to post that poem here and I hope you enjoy it. In the meantime, remember that life happens (as the cliche goes), but we must not let it take control of us to the extent that our creativity is crushed under the weight of days and responsibilities.

Slainte,
 L.A.

WHISPERS

By L.A. Story

I first

Came to

Awareness

Believing

I was blind.

It did not

Take long

For me to

Realize I had

No handicap.

In truth, I was

Stranded …

Alone in

Complete

Velvet

Blackness.

I entertained

Technicolor images –

Visions unshared –

Behind my eyelids

And I spoke from 

My own moon calf mind

For countless midnights.

I was alone

… I thought until

I heard a whisper in the dark.

I listened -- hearing the

Whisper and the mysterious

Rustlings suggestive of

The presence of another

In my dark realm.

A tiny flame sparked

Into existence and the

Faint illumination

Of the infant glow

Suggested treasures

surrounded me

In a space far more

Vast than I suspected.

I heard another whisper …

… And another … and another.

With each whisper, Another flame ignited

Until a language coalesced and the dark was

Bled out by the flames of visions shared.

The velvet blackness was a universe

Of teeming life and the whispers

– and the whisperers –

Were the light.

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