Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Tag: Trifecta Writing Challenge (Archives)
Triple Header
📓*📓*📓 Fifty years ago today My marble notebook, open lay: Scribbled lessons, Homework sessions, Boyfriend doodles, Girlfriend toodles. Atop each gray-lined leaf, A simple sign of pure belief: ‘neath penciled cross, “JMJ” embossed. 📓*📓*📓… Continue Reading “Triple Header”
The Sound of Silence (Vienna; May 7, 1824)
****************** Suddenly, I’ve stopped tumbling through time. Suddenly, I’m witness to his silent moment of triumph. Suddenly, I see, that he hears only through pulsing stringed vibrations and deafened, thundering applause. Suddenly, I weep. ******* This weekend, we want you to give us a… Continue Reading “The Sound of Silence (Vienna; May 7, 1824)”
Villanelle*: Precious Progeny
👫👫👫👫👫 ************************************************* My Grandsons, three plus two, my ‘starting five’ they rampage, romp, and shoot at hoops with zest My ‘Sis’ has five Grand-girls, in pink they thrive. all prettied up, her girls dress to the nines while mine, in ‘Pirate Blue”, launch plunder-quests… Continue Reading “Villanelle*: Precious Progeny”
Clarity
From my bulkhead window seat I smile, I buckle up, take a breath and sigh. This sparkling crystal morn will be imprinted on my ever-wakening mind’s eye… Forever. New paths (i’m told) will spread ahead for me, I gladly (if warily) seize this dawning… Continue Reading “Clarity”
Ecstasy Unleashed
On his crown, the Blenheim spot. His loft: a perch to watch the world go by. Until… “Want to go for a walk?” Dashing to the doorstep, Tail wagging, He welcomes his tether. 🐶🐶🐶 Trifextra Weekend Challenge: This weekend we’re asking for… Continue Reading “Ecstasy Unleashed”
Savanna: Survival
Oddest creature: She spreads her lanky legs, Falling clumsily to her knees to slurp up water-gulps. She survives. Tallest mammal: Sprinting across the savanna, Reaching tree-clumps; razor-sharp teeth gathering meals at dusk. She survives. Strangest denizen: Darkening spots, unique as fingerprints, revealing her true… Continue Reading “Savanna: Survival”
Beyond The Bubble
Globule jiggling Reflections wriggling Within black-rimmed sphere. Kaleidoscopic shimmer as images glimmer through the bubble. Horizon dipping lower, Rim receding, slower and lower still. Vision quest paced As floaters erased: My eye-view mending. Notes: Beyond The Bubble. Though retina surgery is not something I… Continue Reading “Beyond The Bubble”
Cloudy Conundrum
⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅ Cotton cloud-puffs, or Roiling storm clouds on the boil, Sunbeams or showers? ⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅ Trifextra Weekend Challenge: This weekend’s prompt comes from Hello, Cheney, whose lapse in memory was a happy accident for us. This weekend we’re asking you to harken back to… Continue Reading “Cloudy Conundrum”
Raggedy Ann’s ‘Happily Ever After’
🎳🎳🎳 That’s when she noticed him for the first time – the first time in a decade. As ten year-olds, they had known each other and ‘liked’ each other, when they co-starred in their 4th grade Christmas skit. Even then, she felt compelled to… Continue Reading “Raggedy Ann’s ‘Happily Ever After’”
Perspective
🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘 I stand too close, Too attentive. I catch each whisper wafting through the moments of our days together. Too close! Stand away! Rejoice in life’s limitless, lush landscape; Repeating, ever repeating, Ever new! 🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘 Written in response to Trifextra Challenge, “This weekend’s prompt… Continue Reading “Perspective”
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae ✒✒✒✒✒ A life in brief; White paper, black ink Highlights, degrees, awards and stats; Job descriptions, lauds and facts. A single page, a bulleted sheaf A static pencil sketch, barely Scratching the surface of the finished canvas masterpiece. Between the lines of… Continue Reading “Curriculum Vitae”
Driftwood
🌊🌊🌊 It lay that morning in gaping ghastliness, aside the strangling seaweed, clumped on my solitary stretch of sand. A beached shark, whose sharp tooth splinters protruded forward, in a last gasp of survival. 🌊🌊🌊 Having just returned from a Disney world vacation, I browsed… Continue Reading “Driftwood”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
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