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Body of Water

This month, I continue writing posts from prompts in the Writing Down the Bones Card Deck by Natalie Goldberg, shared with me by my friend Barb Edler of Iowa. I’m continuing this month so that I can experience the entire deck of prompts. Today’s prompt is to tell about a body of water with which you are familiar. What comes to mind is the creek that ran through the back yard of our honeymoon house years ago.

Honeymoon Creek

its babbling trickle

from the top of the mountain ~

we watched for black bears

from our wraparound

porch with fireplace and rockers

sipping fresh coffee

~ always, it seems, I

wish we were living right there

in all the wonder

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What Brought Me Here?

This month, I’m writing posts from prompts in the Writing Down the Bones Card Deck by Natalie Goldberg, shared with me by my friend Barb Edler of Iowa. The question of the day is why we write – what brings us to the page each day?

in so many ways

it’s probably the call of

the wild for writers

that’s what brings me here ~

the pull of the scent of wild

words waterfalling

and my feeling the

inner soul need to catch them

and pen them all down

elusively they

babble down the mountain creek

I grab my word net

take off my shoes and

step into the cool waters

where healing happens