Smiling on the Inside

This feeling of joy trapped inside like a xenolith within my dread. I listen with half an ear to the ramblings of strangers I sometimes call friends. Yet within, this joy, small, near insignificant, grows. Your smile, my joy,Ignites a small flameLove? This is for a dVerse prompt: Write a poem of exactly 44 wordsContinue reading “Smiling on the Inside”

Writer’s Block Carving

Within this stone lay my imaginationUpon this blank page I will spill my bloodChisel and hammer I holdThe pen no longer my fingers splayedI look within to find the heart; my own and the stone’sThis block of writers’ my hesitationI type in furious frenzyThe first edge goes, the stone takes shapeAha! Aho! Ahee! The wordsContinue reading “Writer’s Block Carving”