#SoCS: Resolve to Dissolve

Today, in response to Of Maria Antonia’s 2022 Weekly Photo Challenge prompt “A New Year,” I tried something I’ve been thinking about. Using the same clear plastic that I used for my “snowglobes,” I created a filter with written words and put them in the world. This opens up so many possibilities, an exciting discoveryContinue reading “#SoCS: Resolve to Dissolve”

A New Palette for Looking Forward

New Poem Enraptured What joy to play with lightto join it frolickingblue flashing whiteorange blushing pinkor smiling yellowI slow the shutterand move the lensthinking I can control the dancebut the ecstacyis in the unexpectedwhen what I’ve capturedis a delicious panoplyno longer of its partsbut a melded mutationin motion and now singularto be copied, resized, orContinue reading “A New Palette for Looking Forward”

Sun Worship on a Snowy Day

New Poem Oh Sun, We Have Missed You Today we worship the suneyes closed, we absorbIt pets us with photonsenters us and makes us lightSee orange turn to pinkbehind our lidsfilled with warm calmour cheeks lift as our faces floatWe curl up and breathe itlet it fill our cavitieslike bird bonesThe vibrating surfacereflects its caresseslikeContinue reading “Sun Worship on a Snowy Day”

Fuzzy Mittens on a Snowy Day

Today’s photo prompt “mittens” inspired me to get wrapped up in my snow clothes and go play in the snow. Kitty came out to guide me home. New Poem Slippers for Hands I don’t own any mittensI searched the drawersand the cubbies in the closetI have glovesgore-tex gloves for skiingknitted gloves lined with fleecewine coloredContinue reading “Fuzzy Mittens on a Snowy Day”

Sunlight on the Snow

Today I learned that I can make bokeh shapes with sparkles on the snow. If the sun had stayed out, I would have played with all my filters, but it only peeked out from the clouds for a moment. New Poem Snow Day Sunlight dancing on the snow enrapturessparkling rainbows on every surface captivateblissful seagullsContinue reading “Sunlight on the Snow”

Return with the Snowglobe

This morning I received a real snowglobe world. New Poem The prompt at Poetic Bloomings today is Prompt #366 – Many Happy Returns which challenges us to write a return poem. Fleeting She will never returnthat woman of yesterdaybefore this morning’s snowbefore the candycanemelted in this coffeeshe is but a blip of historya snug memoryofContinue reading “Return with the Snowglobe”

#SoCS: Everything is yummy when you give it away.

Today’s prompt, altruism, inspired me to finally make an open hand bokeh filter. I like how it turned out. Then I had fun filling it. Stream of Consciousness It’s stream of consciousness Saturday. The prompt for today is “yum.” My family gathered for gift giving last night and my mother made the most delicious strawberryContinue reading “#SoCS: Everything is yummy when you give it away.”

Eating All the Sunlight-Soaked Oranges

I enjoy getting a little orange in my stocking every year. Today, I played with visualizing the joy of that experience. New Poem A Precarious Achievement It was a beautiful ceiling,a feeling of wishingthe time I wasn’t homeflickers across and distortsour lives.Games and cookies further generalizedwhile the implications stimulatedgiving us candles, the yard was spectacularlyContinue reading “Eating All the Sunlight-Soaked Oranges”

Christmas Duck Giving

What does giving look like? Yesterday, while rummaging around looking for yeti things, I happened upon this dishtowel I forgot I had. The universe gifted me this Christmas duck, so I decided to give it some gifts. New Poem On Vacation We visitedsomething else disappearedpieces of shared experiencetaking up residencein the paintingson your foreheadand theContinue reading “Christmas Duck Giving”

A Visit From Yeti

New Poem At the Motel Pool She sits on a stool in a blue poolwith the water over her headI expect her to bloomlike the strange flowersin my clear glass tea potbut she straddles that stooland competes with the waterfor bluestMy shins in the shallows shimmerflesh under fresh pressurea slippery contradictory mysterynow I’m swimming; it’sContinue reading “A Visit From Yeti”