Tomorrow, noon, is the deadline for The Writer’s Desk – A contest Giveaway sponsored by the delightful Nancy over at Spirit Lights the Way.  The challenge:  Write a short essay or poem (between 33 and 100 words) about your writing desk, your writing rituals, why you write, how you write, how you stop writing, or . . . surprise us with a tantalizing tidbit about your writing life.  And we were to include a picture which, of course, adds a thousand words to the entry!

I write in many places – on napkins at restaurants, on the back of receipts while a passenger in the car, on the back blank pages of other author’s books, in my journal, on lavender coloured legal pads, in small notebooks I carry hither and yon.  My favourite place to write, and I mostly write longhand, especially poetry, is in my comfy armchair behind which sits a sign my wonderful daughter made for my birthday a few year’s ago.

So here is my one hundred word entry which begins with my thousand word picture!

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Writing is time
when the mind is quiet
and words flow
from the heart.

Wisdom comes from
within and draws
from all that I am
and have known.

The flow of words
on paper reveals
to me the beauty
and grace that resides within.

Words that cannot
be spoken are allowed
freedom through paper
and ink.

Sometimes a chuckle,
sometimes a tear will flow
as revelation, inspiration
and truth become known.

Setting aside ego,
leaving self at the door
sinking into the knowing
of language beyond my own.

Listening to the voice
that moves beyond all
sound and whispers
truth.

~Joss Burnel / She Who Walks in Beauty

 

 

 

 

 

 

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