Time Travelers

the dancers jump
through the ferns
next to the eagle
over the pterodactyl
across time
close with a
kiss.

listen to ‘Time Travelers’ on Audioboo

heidi
written: 11/10/13
submitted to mindlovemisery


Today's prompt was to write using this image for contemplation.  It actually kind of freaks me out a little and repulses me a bit.  But I wanted to answer the prompt and not write about feeling freaked or repulsed.  So, I decided to see what was underneath, and I found four dancers.Click on the link above and see other responses.

Honesty

Honesty, truly, was
never one of your strengths and still
I find I'm disappointed

I think I expect
Nothing until my heart breaks
Just like your last sworn promise.

heidi

listen to ‘Honesty’ on Audioboo

written 7/29/13

my attempt at a Sedoka

I think Samuel Peralta is my Shoeless Joe Jackson, "If you use this form, the poem will come." I had the idea for the poem, but wanted a form, and reread Samuel's dVerse  post about Sedoka. I may have taken a few liberties, but I like the end result. Then, Samuel invited us to write a poem using 140 characters and I trimmed this poem to fit that prompt. Here is the tweeted version below.

Honesty was~never one of your strengths~& still I'm disappointed~my heart breaks ~ just like your last promise. h. @dVersePoets #formforall

Cool, huh?


(this all took place over the summer, and I even wrote it up then, and I am only just now posting it. i feel a little like a stephen king character, hoarding my writing to bring out later...)

Update: I need to add one more video

This video has been playing on my screen or in my head for a couple of days now. 

You are so very welcome.

heidi

I Hope the World Will Be Kind.

I read an article in "The Davis Enterprise" today
     about teenagers trick-or-treating.

And I have to admit, I started thinking
     "this is another cut-the-special-needs-kids-some-slack-and-let-them-trick-or-treat" thing.
     and my heart got a little weary.

And the woman wrote about how she was uncomfortable with teenage trick-or-treaters
     until her son was fifteen
     and went trick-or-treating with his  friends
     and how she hoped people would be kind to them.

And it made me cry a little...
     because I like the way she wrote it
     and because I wanted people to be kind too
     and because I want people to be that way with my kids, too.

It also made me cry a little
     because sometimes all people see about my girl are her special needs
     and because sometimes they don't see it and she is penalized for what she can't help
     and because, like the tiny spark of hope that I can't shake,
            (and that I have grown to hate
                  that one day she'll wake up and be vanilla rather than special...)
     I think that I may always think that thought
          or something similar
     and I will always be torn between my desire for her to be treated like
            any other little girl
            and the little girl who will always have the extra challenge.

Maybe the mom of the teenage boy and I have the same hope
     that the world will be kind.

listen to ‘I Hope the World Will Be Kind’ on Audioboo

       

heidi
written: 10/31/13 in response to Marion Franck's article "What You Need to Know About 6 Foot Trick-or-Treaters" in "The Davis Enterprise." You can click on the title of the article for the link.


Happy Halloween! I wasn't going to post today, but my friend, Crystal, posted this article on Facebook and, well, this happened. Have a good night, y'all.

Broken

Like a glass jar
No longer with purpose
Shattered on the
Hard
Cold
Floor.

listen to ‘Broken’ on Audioboo

heidi

9/22/13

So, yeah,  I was more than a little depressed during the month and a half hiatus. (Those of you who follow me on Twitter are saying, "well, duh, Heidi." ) Tweeting damn depressing cinquains, watching cool videos and reading/listening to scary stories seem to help take that razor-sharp edge off of brutal despair, I find.

Fidelity

My devotion to you
is
  so
    damn
       deep

that I stop myself
in the midst of
a
smokin'
      sex
        dream

 because

he

wasn't

you.

listen to ‘Fidelity’ on Audioboo

heidi
written: 9/21/13

I am digging into my reserves today. A little poem I wrote while I was gone that month and a half. Thanks for stopping by!
 

Another Huge Obsession

In my last post, I shared some of the wonderful videos that I can't stop watching. In this post, I am going to share what has overtaken my iTunes and reading. It is No Sleep.



Some of you may know that I adore old time radio horror and mysteries. One of my favorite websites to listen  to is Horror-Theater. (I couldn't copy a good picture for them.) You can find it online at http://www.horror-theatre.com/. They play a nice variety of shows. Lately, they have been playing the No Sleep Podcast. The first night I listened to these stories, I had to sleep with the lights on. It was awesome. You can listen to the podcast yourself on iTunes or off of their website at http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/. If you go to their website, check out the page they made for new listeners. There are some excellent selections on that page as well as a link to their archives. Beginning with Season Three, you can also get bonus episodes by subscribing. Otherwise, you can listen to episodes free-of-charge (although I recommend subscribing.) I was not able to download directly from the webpage, but I could through iTunes.

The stories read on this podcast are from the Reddit No Sleep Forum, which can be found at http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/.  (I also couldn't get a good graphic for this site.) Readers of the forum post their "true" horror stories and I am hooked. I am also working on something to post there myself.

So that is something else that has been consuming me.

Also, I am writing this solely because I want to. The No Sleep and Horror Theater folks don't even know that this post exists.

Hopefully, I will be back to posting poetry and fiction soon. I need to catch up on all the wonderful prompts over at dVerse Poets Pub (they also, have no idea that I am posting this.)

have a good one!

heidi
written 10/27/13

Happy Birthday Kelly!

What Have You Been Doing Lately?

Because we know it hasn't been posting here, right? I have been obsessed with these You Tube videos.

They are videos of Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox (ScottBradleeLovesYa). I think I am in love with the tamborine man in the video below.

This one I am dedicating to my soon to be four-year-old because he can sing the all the words to the original "Thrift Shop".

The video that makes me want to actually try a Guiness.

The reason I have a Miley Cyrus song stuck in my head.

I have another obsession that I will share in my next post.

I hope you enjoyed these as much as I have and be sure to check them out on YouTube. You can also feel free to share your latest obsessions.

heidi
written 10/25/13

Edit: I was not paid to write this blog post. I am confident that Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox have never even heard of the lasagna. I just love these videos!

Prompts

I never really adjusted to summer break and now school's back in session. I have wanted to post, but I haven't felt very creative. So I thought that I would share links to prompts that I enjoy. Many of you visit through prompts and maybe familiar with these already, but there may be one or two nice finds. I also invite you to post a link to a prompt that I may have missed in the comments section. If you say it is okay, I will edit this post and move the link into the text. You can also email me with a link if you would rather. My email address is to the right.

Prompts:

Kellie Elmore's Free Write Friday
http://kellieelmore.com
Click on "The Latest" tab

Kellie's prompt was the first one I discovered. She posts prompts on Friday and invites you to free write. The prompts vary in type (picture, question, word bank, etc.) from week to week. You post the link to your blog in the comments.

dVerse Poets Pub
 http://dversepoets.com/

A very cool community. Tuesday they have an Open Link Night for poetry and Thursday and Saturday they post poetry challenges. Monday and Wednesday, they post an article and invite discussion in the comments.  There is so much to learn from this talented group. You link through Mr. Linky.

The Mag
http://magpietales.blogspot.com

You should visit this prompt if just to look at the pictures and stay for the cool posts. The Mag posts on Sunday and is a picture prompt. You respond to the posted picture on your blog and then post the link through Mr. Linky.

Three Word Wednesay
 http://www.threewordwednesday.com/
3WW posts three words and you write something that uses those words. This site has some very cool flash fiction participants. The prompt is posted on Wednesday and you link through Mr. Linky.

The Sunday Whirl
http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/

The Sunday Whirl is a word bank prompt. Each Sunday, you get a new Wordle of 12/13 words. You get your creativity on, and then link back through Mr. Linky

mindlovemisery
 http://mindlovemisery.wordpress.com/

This is a beautiful, intense blog with one of the most delightful bloggers that I have met through writing. Plus on Sunday, she posts a challenge and invites responses. You link up through a Mr. Linky.

Mad Kane's Humor Blog Limerick-Off
 http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/category/limerick-offs/

I am not sure how I forgot to mention this wonderful weekly challenge when I first wrote this post, but I did. Let me offer my deepest apologies. Each week Madeleine Kane gives you the start and you write the limerick(s). If you are not sure about the form, she also has a helpful tutorial. The submissions are hilarious and the challenge is great fun. It is also not uncommon for limerick throw-downs to happen where submitters write limericks back and forth to each other.

Prompts I would like to try one day:


Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/

ABC Wednesday
http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com/

Sunday Scribblings
 http://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/


As with anything, you get what you put into these, so don't link and run unless they ask you to.

heidi
08/20/13

Aoifespeak

at six
she is just getting the art
of conversation

at two,
she would crawl into my lap
take the pappy out of her mouth
and with the biggest,
sweetest
smile
babble in Aoife speak
a conversation that was funny
and interesting,
and one I never understood.

finally, the words came
but the conversations left.
she would talk to herself
at her dolls
and just look at me and smile

sometimes, a
"he's a sweet fella"
to her baby brother.

now, almost four years later,
we have had a magic summer.
not quite miraculous,
but close enough.
she wants to have conversations
sometimes, they are rehearsed from movies
sometimes they are to her dolls
sometimes they are with me
and sometimes they are even about what I want to talk about.

and my sweet girl has been listening
and has this week adopted my favorite words
in her sweet, high, soft everyday voice,
two weeks to the day that school starts

"Shit, Mommy. I can't find my fucking bunny."

and I am so excited that her language skills are progressing

but, shit, I am going to be in so much fucking trouble with her teacher.

heidi
written 8/6/13

So my sweet girl has me as a bad influence, and this past weekend she treated her father to about 3 hours of f-bombs. Not angry or mean spirited, just useful adjectives.  She ran errands with him because I kept laughing and we were trying to not make a deal of the word. I am stoked at the milestones. Yay! My sweetie is developing conversational skills! Yay! My sweetie said socially unacceptable words!

The poem came about after reading the poems for the Childhood Dreams prompt over at mindlovemisery. I am still not sure if I am going to link it, since it doesn't really fit the prompt. maybe...