OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears
Forest for the Trees: It’s easy to get caught up in details and lose the big picture, or be so focused on the big picture that the details get lost. Think about the opening of a film: the camera flying over a big city, then zooming into a location then to a character, then perhaps to an object, or detail. For today’s poem you have two options, either start with a very broad view and zoom in through the poem to very specific details, OR start with very specific details and zoom out to a very broad view.
This poem might be fun as an Etheree.
Writober 2023
Today’s image prompt, “The Stairs” by tohdraws depicts something I would never want to come across in a stairwell.
Halloween Photography Challenge
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Experience Writing 
Laura De Bernardi
Expansion & Contraction
Meditating, the mind a room
big, spacious, nothing in it
high, wide, deep, dark
without walls, expansive
a sound, noted, a bird
another sound, noted, a car
the mind continues knowing
itself, a cavern, a void
calm, nothing, endless
big mind, that’s what it’s
called, elation, aware of pleasure,
sensation noted, achievement,
concept, noted, mind less still
another sound, noted, wind
type of wind, noted, blustery
rain falling, air cooling
sensation, noted, aversion
to cold, was ill in September
could not shake it dry cough
heaving, memory, noted
of doing battle, and fear
such fear of ageing,
the body struggling, weaker
now that it’s older, lightning,
rain lashing, windows rattling
body rock solid, still
mind moving, big mind lost
sadness, now, thunder too
an argument, you are so dishonest
memory screaming, like the wind,
and you are such a cow
tears and rain, then, now
all mixed in together
messy, confusion, noted
mind contracted, aware
bell sounds, meditation done.
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