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Quietude

January 29, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

GBE 2 Blog-on: Week #89 Writing Picture Prompt: “Small Building by Water”

We met
there, our spot near
the shore, far from life, souls
washed in quietude, a million
years back.

talya

Writing prompt image courtesy of morgueFile, which offers free images for public use.

Musical Pairing:

Have You Ever Loved A Woman? Bryan Adams

January

January 24, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

It's beginning to look like January

Birds chirp
sunlight dances
thoughts pass through my mind.
Fir trees tossed curbside still smell of
Christmas.

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Musical Pairing:

Winter Song, Sara Bareilles

feel the music

January 22, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

GBE 2: Writing Prompt – Music

I remember how darkness doubled
giving us somewhere safe to hide.
Just two lost souls swimming
inside a fish bowl, driven
deep beneath waves,
steered by the stars.
Do you believe in magic?
Can you feel the music
shining down like water?
Take my hand, take my whole life
and save your mortal soul.
I’ll let you be in my dreams,
if I can be in yours.

This poem is in the style of cento—work composed from lines or passages from other sources arranged in a new form or order, in this case, musical lyrics of Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Rush, Television, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deee-lite, Elvis, The Lovin’ Spoonful and Don McLean…

Do You Believe in Magic? The Lovin’ Spoonful

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

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