Trifecta’s Challenge for the weekend is 33 words on a new beginning. This is my take:
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Today was a new day. The sun shone warmer, brighter somehow.
He reached for her hand. She leaned into his arm. They walked from the building, smiling.
The doctors’s words rang . . .
Cancer free!
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
A mote in the wind
An atom of rust
My thoughts turn
Inward
My eyes look
Out
I long to be touched
But must do without
The priest intones
Prayers unheard
My heart beats on
I seek His true word
What is the touch
I seek from you
What is the word
I wait to hear
Ashes to ashes
I hear again
We all move
Forward
Straining backward
The priest reaches out
Pulling me in
I want out
But must go in
Ashed forehead
Solemn soul
My eyes turn
Inward
Seeking the One
Here?
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Velvet Verbosity challenged us to write 100 words on DUST. I remember the smell of incense. I remember the grit of ashy foreheads. I remember longing for acceptance. I remember my unsolaced heart.
So glad to know the cross is empty and the man nailed on it lives in my heart. Together we look forward with no pulling back.
The girl knelt at Mother Mary’s feet, tears streaming down her face. Sister Magdalena bent next to her offering a slim taper. “You must light a candle for your father, Raisa. Tell Mother Mary your Intention for your father’s soul. Come now, child.â€
Raisa rose from her knees, took the taper and walked to the votive stand. There she stood, rigid in her defiance. “My intention? My intention, Sister, is to see his rotten soul burn in the fiery pits of hell!â€
Heedless of Magdalena’s gasp, Raisa threw the taper down, turned on her heel and walked out of the church that had harbored a sinful man and had helped to steal her innocence by turning its back when she cried for help.
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Trifecta’s challenge this week is to write 33-333 words on INTENTION using the third definition:
3a : what one intends to do or bring about
b : the object for which a prayer, mass, or pious act is offered
The above is fiction . . . I do sort of like that it turned out to be 123 words. The symmetry makes me smile.
Woody Woodpecker
and Lucy and Bette
To name a few
Howdy Doody on strings
and Flippo the Clown
With his oversized shoes
Scully and Carol Burnette
Could outshine
Carrot Top at his best
Prince Harry, the Lady Sarah
And the Beasleys from HP
And our country lady Reba
Shining in song and on TV
Opie as a kid in Mayberry
Ron the director as an adult
Gingers both young and old
One of my favorites was
A comedian I loved
Red Skelton
With his gentle wit and kind soul
And love for country shared oft
Through the Pledge of Allegiance
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Velvet Verbosity challenged us with the word REDHEAD this week. I have many fond memories of tv as a kid . . . we watched it at my dad’s mom’s house. Later when I was 12 or 13 Mom and my sister and I got our first tv and we loved watching Carol Burnette, I Love Lucy, but especially Red Skelton. I hope you will listen to his words on the Pledge of Allegiance. Blesses my heart each time I do.
He was a crusty old curmudgeon
Set in his ways
Happy was not a word to describe
How he spent his days
Until
The first grandbaby
Softened his core
Love at first sight
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Pic is of hubbymoose – taken this past summer on one of our take the grands fishing days. Love him and love the way he loves them.
the Trifecta challenge this week is . . . well, open to interpretation. 33 words using a diagram of the earth’s core, mantel and crust.
Thanks muchly to the Trifecta editors for making me their first Featured Trifectan. I am honored.