Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Category: Trifecta Writing Challenge (Archives)
On Miracles
🎵🎵🎵 The same old butterflies returned to her stomach and her pulse quickened with uncertainty, as she turned into the familiar road that led to her mountain retreat. Her friends and acquaintances from prior years had opted for other weeks, other programs, other Directors.… Continue Reading “On Miracles”
Three Little Words
Rock! Paper! Scissors! 🌾🌾🌾 Trifextra Challenge Week 86: This weekend we were asked to put forth three little words that describe the writing process. Much goes into the creative process. However, a stone cold, rocky place usually precedes the written word… Continue Reading “Three Little Words”
Timing is Everything!
Timing is everything! Just minutes ahead of traffic, she would fly into the city. She merged onto the interstate, conjuring up scenarios and ‘what-if’ responses: If ‘He’ said ‘this’, she’d say ‘that’. If ‘He’ begged…, if ‘He’ didn’t…, etc. By six twenty-two, she… Continue Reading “Timing is Everything!”
Dona Nobis Pacem
🌾🌾🌾 🌾🌾🌾 Whitman, Poet penning poems: War poems Williams, Composer setting words to music: Dona Nobis Pacem. Artistic genius, both united inevitably in performance. I sing through tears, their requiem for fallen Father and Son. 🌾🌾🌾 Trifecta Challenge Week 75: a thirty-three word “free-write”… Continue Reading “Dona Nobis Pacem”
Emergence
Cloyingly clinging to a single shred of salvation Resisting the impulse to relinquish my tenuous hold on reality Undaunted, crude, I struggle – as a projectile – against the swirling maelstrom … Continue Reading “Emergence”
La Vie en Rose
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 He silences the whispering of his doubting demons. She is his whole world and he is merely a corner of hers, neatly compartmentalized between her career and her quest for perfection. Forcing a smile in an effort to not to rain on her… Continue Reading “La Vie en Rose”
The Third Time’s a Charm!
As seen through the eyes of an eight year-old, always on the move and persistently seeking constant stimulation and entertainment; fishing can be a pretty dull way to spend a hot afternoon…until he lands the big one! 🐡🐡🐡 I’m bored! I hate fishing! He’s… Continue Reading “The Third Time’s a Charm!”
How Does My Garden Grow?
🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 The tall twins had inexorably killed her chances to have a garden, and though she loved the trees’ elegant, shade-giving, bird-nesting, lushness; she so missed her garden. Over the last forty years, Her yard had become a vibrant place of verdant serenity. It… Continue Reading “How Does My Garden Grow?”
Illuminating Irony
Re-enacted religiously since that night, Remembering with sensual clarity the first time: Crystal chandelier ascending; upward, inward, slowly but seemingly inexorably, Stunningly skyward. Grand Tier light extinguished As smaller orbs, in spoke-like formation Follow, like ducklings waddling after mama mallard. Lights go down when… Continue Reading “Illuminating Irony”
Reunion
Arriving early at the cafe to claim ‘their’ table, she ordered the ‘usual’ fondue and carafe, and nervously tried to temper her unrealistic expectations, even though he’d agreed to see her. A decade ago when she fled Geneva, slinking from their pension into the… Continue Reading “Reunion”
Memory Lane
It was the summer of 2012. A casual stroll through a quaint New England town had suddenly morphed into a glimpse of nearly forgotten youth. Expecting to find a cute cafe, but settling instead on a trendy pub, she was startled to find… Continue Reading “Memory Lane”
Days of our Lives
Today, we hide from the dis-believers below. Tomorrow, our paths severed, “we” will not exist. Someday, I will return to this secret, solemn site. That day, tresses falling freely, tears will fall silently.
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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