I bought a rose for my daughter about twelve Valentine’s Days ago, now. It looked sweetly hysterical in the vase she chose. She wouldn’t let me throw it away when it died.
What about this rose? The rose the boy is holding as he stands at our front door? Would she treasure it like mine?
My breath comes fast. Please, I beg silently, don’t take my little girl away from me.
She looks at him for a minute. “I’m… sorry,” she says, hesitating. “I have a date with my dad tonight. Maybe… can I get you a glass of water?”
Friday, July 24, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
That is all - a drabble of 100 words
On a great green bush in a great green field, hundreds of buds begin to bloom. Delicate pink bundles of expectation burst into colorful displays of pistils, pollen, petals…
All but one.
One crimson bud is picky. Specific. Today he moans, “The sun is too bright.” Tomorrow, “Leaves are too green.”
That is all. He simply CANNOT bloom until the PERFECT DAY COMES.
A doe arrives. The bush catches her attention.
Mmmm.
The buds are her favorites. She searches. She finds.
Oblivious, the bud contemplates. “The sky is too grey.”
That is all. The little bud is no more.
All but one.
One crimson bud is picky. Specific. Today he moans, “The sun is too bright.” Tomorrow, “Leaves are too green.”
That is all. He simply CANNOT bloom until the PERFECT DAY COMES.
…
A doe arrives. The bush catches her attention.
Mmmm.
The buds are her favorites. She searches. She finds.
Oblivious, the bud contemplates. “The sky is too grey.”
That is all. The little bud is no more.
Friday, July 17, 2009
I love vocabulary.
So I decided I would post a list of a few of my new favorite words, which Sara and I found while looking through the dictionary last night and are not commonly used in the English language. (At least, I'd never seen most of them before.)
yeasty (very enthusiastic or joyful)
evanescent (quickly fading)
malarkey (nonsense)
quixotic (chivalrous and unselfish to an exxagerated extent)
pulchritude (beauty)
salubrious (health-giving)
perfidious (treacherous, disloyal)
ubiquitous (being everywhere at the same time)
nefarious (extremely wicked)
pyrotechnics (a firework display OR a display of brilliant wit)
All definitions from the Oxford American Dictionary
yeasty (very enthusiastic or joyful)
evanescent (quickly fading)
malarkey (nonsense)
quixotic (chivalrous and unselfish to an exxagerated extent)
pulchritude (beauty)
salubrious (health-giving)
perfidious (treacherous, disloyal)
ubiquitous (being everywhere at the same time)
nefarious (extremely wicked)
pyrotechnics (a firework display OR a display of brilliant wit)
All definitions from the Oxford American Dictionary
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Sun, be not hesitant! - a villanelle
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
Dark clouds shroud the sky; my spirit is weak!
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
A contest ensues in celestial height –
The clouds so commanding, and thou, so meek!
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
Combat the gloom that makes day seem as night!
Let not the grim rainclouds unhappiness wreak!
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
O, Sun! Be triumphant! (He turns! He fights!)
Defeated, the Dark flees with piercing shriek!
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
The once grey world now bathed in cheery light!
Thy warm, sweet caress still nervous and weak –
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
Endure! Endure! What a beautiful sight!
O heav’n, my face will forever light seek!
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
(c) Emma Gay 2009
Dark clouds shroud the sky; my spirit is weak!
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
A contest ensues in celestial height –
The clouds so commanding, and thou, so meek!
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
Combat the gloom that makes day seem as night!
Let not the grim rainclouds unhappiness wreak!
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
O, Sun! Be triumphant! (He turns! He fights!)
Defeated, the Dark flees with piercing shriek!
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
The once grey world now bathed in cheery light!
Thy warm, sweet caress still nervous and weak –
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
Endure! Endure! What a beautiful sight!
O heav’n, my face will forever light seek!
Sun, be not hesitant! Come forth! Be bright!
I pray thee, take courage and shine with might!
(c) Emma Gay 2009
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