Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Category: Creative Writing
Prose and Poetry
Many Moons Ago
‘Twas years ago (or was just a day), We’re racing ‘down the shore’ to rescue her, from demons overtaking weakened state, We spread our supplications, pray they’re heard. Her road had been rocky and absurd, Since Dad was taken to eternal rest, In downward… Continue Reading “Many Moons Ago”
Night Visitors
The snow lies lovely, sterling bright and white, A broad-spread blanket, crystalline and smooth, For days confined, snowed-in near cabin’s hearth, While gazing out at moonlit silken glaze, As crackling fires loll this drowsy night And turned-down quilts bid welcome winter’s sleep. The January… Continue Reading “Night Visitors”
Beyond the Steam
Preparing for the concert, mind is filled, My spirit chimes with measures, harmonies, An un-trite, polyphonic mesh, but still My aim: maybe to learn these melodies. To ease my pre-show nerves and soothe my knees, Bubbles, soft and warm, pile high and light, In… Continue Reading “Beyond the Steam”
Roots (Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself)
Last November we traveled to Puerto Rico, en route to St. Thomas in support of the Seton Hall Pirates, for the Paradise Jam, a pre-season college basketball tournament.  While in Puerto Rico, we visited the town of Caguas, and toured several museums.  The  Museo de… Continue Reading “Roots (Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself)”
Beyond the Drapes
I oft’ Â deny a few more precious winks, To rise from down-soft sleeping place, sublime. Beyond the heavy drapes, as night moon sinks, The light is changing with each tick of time. Feeling blindly, camera case inclined and leaning close aside the rattan chair,… Continue Reading “Beyond the Drapes”
Mid-winter Song
I loll, just sheltered inches from the gray, Mid-winter bleak capitulates the scene, I wait and watch for signs of Spring, and pray! Generate sweet thoughts of tots at play. For weeks on end they gayly splashed and screamed, I loll, just sheltered inches from… Continue Reading “Mid-winter Song”
Teardrops
Trodden, verdant shafts beneath her soles Bled cool and damp and flattened here once more, Ritual oft-repeated, silenced but unfold- ing her dismay, despair and wounded core. It reached within, like sword in days of yore, To twist and grind the sorrow hidden well,… Continue Reading “Teardrops”
Undertow
Abandoned now, ‘neath looming storm-clouds gray, Banana-bunched boards, the only light, But undertow compels she cannot stay. He’d sing to her, life on review, he’d stay, Through sunniest of days and darkest nights, Abandoned now, ‘neath looming storm-clouds gray. He smiled to mask the… Continue Reading “Undertow”
“D-man’s” Decision
Again with focused diligence he trains, Some days he wanes in purpose, yet remains to bear the load, the challenge of this journey, Culminates this day, his black belt tourney, He beams with pride, a new belt girds his waist, Accomplishment, endurance, leadership embraced.… Continue Reading ““D-man’s” Decision”
Happy Anniversary
A handsome man and lovely lass were wed on New Year’s Day, in city without sleep, They loved each other truly and for life, Now, seven decades since, I ponder deep. Recalling them together warms my heart, His easy, crooning voice untrained but free,… Continue Reading “Happy Anniversary”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
Home Sweet Home
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