Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley, A Defense of Poetry, 1821 from the Quote Garden And in nature we find these beautiful distortions that serve as inspiration to those who conjure words. [slideshow] Related articles Weekly photo challenge: Distorted (jmsimpson.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted (maggiephotgraphy.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge:… Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted
Category: Inpirador/Inspirational
Weekly Photo Challenge: Indulge
In a life that reality and imagination collide constantly on the decisions between broom or pen, laundry or revision, housecleaning or story research, kids homework or plots… To indulge is a delightful gift, is to yield to the wishes of my inner desires as a mother, wife, friend, writer (in no particular order). When… Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Indulge
Poem: The sun, the storm
Sun shines bright, mighty. Blinding those who lay eyes upon it. It’s presence ever warming. And at his feet a storm brews untamed, cold. Waiting impatiently for her master to unleash it and strike with force the mortal souls upon the earth.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Down
The Hermit Crab they go up towards their hidding place to pass the night, while my children and I look down on them admiring the beauty of nature in them. Related articles Weekly Photo Challenge: Regret (alexandraroman.com) Creative animals: Hermit crab creates spectacular sand ball ‘galaxies’ on Malaysian beach (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Down (bethanysmind.wordpress.com)… Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Down
La Ermita
Arropada por la flora que busca su lugar en el cambiante y abandonado terreno donde un día fue dueña y señora. Fue erguida una vez, y ahora yace en ruinas, la Ermita de la Candelaria en Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Sus coloniales paredes de ladrillos color terracota expuestos, como una herida en carne viva, a… Continue reading La Ermita
Opening line…
My cat takes her place at her new spot on the sofa- that is part of the small and informal dining table in our family room– stretches and closes her eyes. Always around me while I’m at my writing desk. My half printed manuscript lays face up right next to my computer. It is as… Continue reading Opening line…
Invigorating journey through the sense of taste
“Taste is probably the one sense that arouses in us all our other senses or perhaps is affected most by all of them.” If you love chocolate as much as me, you must take this journey Lilly1949 from Lilly1949’s Blog took upon and shares in her post “What can I say about the sense of… Continue reading Invigorating journey through the sense of taste
En mi mesa de noche, lecturas para el 2012 / In my nightstand, readings for 2012
English version is in RED writing! Durante el 2011 pensé que leer sería un lujo y que me quitaría valioso tiempo de escritura que necesitaba para completar mi novela de fantasía. ¡Qué equivocada estuve! Sin darme cuenta la lectura se hizo, nuevamente, parte de mi diario vivir y no solo eso, me introdujo a otro… Continue reading En mi mesa de noche, lecturas para el 2012 / In my nightstand, readings for 2012
Juan Carlos Fernández y su pasión por las letras
MÁS QUE PASIÓN por las letras, lo mío ha sido siempre, pasión por las historias. Como la mayoría de la gente de mi generación, me crié con la televisión, el cine, los comics y los libros de aventuras de Julio Verne, Emilio Salgari y los libros de los tres investigadores. El primer libro que… Continue reading Juan Carlos Fernández y su pasión por las letras
A prayer for the Soul
So needed in times where you feel lost, dying slowly and seen as something different that what you really are. Humans change, sometimes evolve into something that they thought never possible. Tears follow and questions form themselves out of thin air. Then the words come, out of the blue… Have patience with everything unresolved… Continue reading A prayer for the Soul