#Write 28 Days

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You Can't Make Me!

You Can’t Make Me!

Justification for wrongdoing is often explained away, with the accused claiming “He made me do it” or “I had no choice.” In reality, they are saying they regret allowing somebody to entrap them. My friend, scripture tells us, “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also…

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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS – Day 7

Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project. Ghost CrabIn the midst of the deepest nightI almost awaken and form my dream's storyas it flees, a strobing, flickering shadow just out of sight, flashing light then dark, and I’m teasing the photons, poking the dim absence, hunting again for the body’s dream pose, the shapethat can call it back to me.When I know there’s more,unseen but felt like the…

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Imperturbable

Until last week I had never heard the word imperturbable. For those of you reading this who are in the same boat, I will give you a couple of definitions: unable to be upset or excited; calmmarked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness I wish I could say that I am imperturbable, but I am not! On the contrary, I get easily wound up when I feel that something is “wrong.” Not surprisingly,…

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Wait on the Lord

Wait on the Lord

What can you do when someone you love faces gut-wrenching DEVASTATION & pain? What if that loved one was Job? Or one of the countless barren women? Or Jesus Himself? I find that all too often, we offer generic platitudes like, “He’s in a better place” or “At least she’s not suffering anymore.” Might I suggest that we instead spend time in prayer petitioning our Heavenly Father to intercede? Do…

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Disappointed - #Write28Days - Day 1

Disappointed – #Write28Days – Day 1

I sat down to write but my mind is blank. I’m disappointed. I wait weeks for a package to arrive, but it is lost in transit. I’m disappointed. I bake a cake for my husband’s birthday but it’s raw in the center. He’s disappointed. My son worked hard to complete college, but a global pandemic cancelled graduation. He’s disappointed. My daughter was scheduled to for field study in an ESL…

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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS - Day 5

Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project. At A Loss For Words Some encounters are dreams, set in a real world that’s been rendered to appear more magically incoherent than usual, the elements available, proscribed, known, but swirling together without taking shape, like in the liquor store when John told me that come spring he would want to dominate a conversation with me about his garden, and I…

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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS - DAY 4

Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project. Seeing the Hawk At the corner of my human eye is a hawk, a goshawk, someone sent me photos of one today from Colorado, and here it is until I move my focus to it and now it’s a small gooseneck lamp perched on a desk but finding this and knowing this doesn’t stop me from seeing a hawk again and again when I look slightly elsewhere and every time, thrilled,…

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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS - DAY 3

Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project. InfiltrationI sit in a room in New Englandwatching this muted spill of light as trees refract the sun’s best intentions, if the sun intends, or if the sun portends, calibrated flares and flickers too fast to be seen, yet they pulse behind our eyes, an impression, an erasure. I witness the breathing image, stripped to silhouette, a filtered projection of…

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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS – DAY 2

Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project. Arriving & Leaving Walking loosely in the woods, alongside ponds and oceans, coves that are calm, coves that are choppy, I’m remembering swimming across this choppy cove and almost not making it, but that’s not now. Now I’m with a blonde woman and a 10-year-old boy who’s not mine and not hers, the three of us finding ourselves up here in Maine, on our…

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Write 28 Days: Dream Poems - Landing Page

For “Write 28 Days” this February I’m planning to write a poem (more of a poem first draft. something written in less than a half-hour) each day that’s either based on a dream or that accesses or derives from my waking dreamy state. There may be inspiring images involved, there may not. I don’t think I can say much more about it, because I don’t know much more about it. We’ll see what…

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Same Journey...Different Path

Same Journey…Different Path

This is the second year I have participated in #write28days. Participants are free to use the daily prompts or publish a topical series. The point is to get in the habit of writing every day. I opted to use the daily prompts. Sometimes the words came easily but on others it was really a stretch to come up with something. I want to thank Anita Strawn de Ojeda for sponsoring this challenge. As…

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It Was Time

Bear with me a minute, if you please. I’m going to “sermonize” for a minute. Due to some setbacks, I have had in my Journey to a Healthier Me, I have been avoiding the measuring tape. I feared that I had regained some lost inches. BUT… This morning I stopped stalling, stood in front of the mirror with the tape measure, and took those eight measurements. I have lost 78 inches since July 2020.…

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It is What it Is

Do you ever get a song stuck in your head that won’t go away until you do something with it? Today is one of those days. The song is Eye of the Tiger by Survivor. It is the theme song from Rocky III (1982). I know this is not quite how the #write28days prompt (survive) should be used, but it’s the best I can do today. Eye of the Tiger Rising up, back on the streetDid my time, took my…

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No One Like You

Isn’t it incredible that in all the world, there never has been and never will be another person who is exactly like you? Even identical twins don’t share the same fingerprints. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you,…

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

I have been struggling this week with prioritizing the various things on my ever-growing to-do list. I have even toyed with the idea of LEAVING the blogiverse for a time. But then I remembered my commitments: #Write28DaysLaunch Team book reviews6-Word Poetry (I missed this week)#FiveMinuteFriday#Grace&Truth#TellHisStory#InspireMeMonday So. For now. I will leave the idea of leaving where it…

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Not Me

I have never been, nor will I ever be considered to live a life of elegance. I’m much more comfortable in jeans and a hoodie than in sequins and heels. Our home is furnished for comfort. It’s filled with handmade quilts and items inherited from loved ones who are waiting for us in Heaven. We do not go on extravagant vacations or throw fancy parties. I am perfectly content with my casual…