Tag: hope

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

swirling hope

Tina Stewart Brakebill

as the colors swirl

we contemplate the morrow

upwelling with hope

image-2Photo credit to Ian Dooley-Unsplash

Trying the positivity thing again! Thanks to Ronovan Writes for the challenging haiku words: morrow and surge. (I subbed in upwelling for surge.) And thanks to Sadje’s WDYS Challenge for a truly hopeful photo inspiration.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

bliss

Tina Stewart Brakebill

somewhere far from now

we’ll wake to dance again

blissfully alive 

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Day Two: Once again, choosing to look for hope in the midst of everything. We’ll see how long this lasts!

Thanks to Fandango’s WOTD Challenge (somewhere) and Sadje’s What Do You See Challenge for the inspiration. Photo credit to Joel Valve- Unsplash.

Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

Someday I’ll Get There

Tina Stewart Brakebill

“Someday I’ll get there.” No one could hear her, but she screamed the words. Trying to drown out the cynical voice in her head.

But that voice always echoed louder: “You’re making a fool of yourself. Just stop. Stop painting. Stop running. Just stop.”

She knew that voice was right. Everyone was gone. Not hiding out in Atlanta. Not waiting for her. Gone. All of them.  

Still … she almost had captured his essence. She just needed to finish before she forgot his face. A few more strokes. That’s all. She couldn’t stop. Not now.  

“Someday I’ll get there.”

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This 99 word bit of optimistic delusion was inspired by Rochelle’s Friday Fictioners Challenge (photo credit to her as well) with a cynical boost from Fandango’s FOWC and a great opening line from Putting My Feet in the Dirt.