Haiku Sunday – Porcupine

“Porcupine”

Curled up tight, poised barbs
Prick the hands trying to soothe
Your porcupine heart.

Steve D

Author’s Note: This haiku was inspired by the phrase “porcupine heart”, which I actually said in a real conversation. (I sometimes speak in metaphor and prose — what of it?) Now I’m curious whom among you can throw some intriguing words, phrases, metaphors, analogies, etc. at me to use as inspiration for a future haiku? After all, I can’t write about the weather and things I can see from my back door forever.

Comment below an idea you want me to try to jam into a haiku. If you like, I’ll give you a shout-out and a link to your website in the haiku post. Challenge me!

Creativity Sessions: Inner Monologues and Deductions

I love the concept of the inner monologue in writing, probably because I’m constantly up in my own head with thoughts and ideas that I might not express vocally. In writing, though, I think it has to be used delicately. Continue reading “Creativity Sessions: Inner Monologues and Deductions”

Easy Ramblings – JG

            Easily, you brand me - why?
 Because all you see is me
 Giving in to instincts like some filthy animal.
 No credit given where credit is due,
 Who the hell are you to sentence me to Hell?
 Well, I guess you're someone who knows, right? Guilty
 of the same sin of wiring, how inspiring that you're willing
 To claim yourself superior
 Because you're perfectly unhappy hiding your interior
 wants and wishes.
 Walk away before I get vicious -
 I'm just a mindless mongrel anyways, right?
 That's all it could be,
 So very fucking easy for you to see,
 Easy for you to know exactly how I got here.
           You don't know the Hell I've put myself through.
 The pain I've offered up in penance;
 the sacrifice, the self restriction
 because I wanted to paint it as an addiction
 I could get over with just a little self control.
 I gave up what I knew was worth everything
 For something in my fucking head.
 In your fucking head.
 In my heart,
 All of it is bound in regret.
 I never said what I should've
 Repeated
 As a daily prayer to someone
 A lot more pure
 Than the men I was raised to bow before.
          Easy? Easy you say - why?
 Because it was oh so easy for you?

Continue reading “Easy Ramblings – JG”

What Are Rights? Rebuttal AKA Your Vacuum Missed a Spot to the Right

 

Dear Stevie,

I’m a big fan of the late great George Carlin, too, although you definitely got into his stand up way earlier in life than I did. I would estimate that I didn’t know who he was until high school, perhaps only really watching and enjoying his act somewhere in my earlier twenties. I’ll freely admit it: he stands tall amongst my heroes, joined by fellow charismatic storytellers like Kurt Vonnegut and Joss Whedon, so I’m a little butthurt at your deconstructing his wisdom. Continue reading “What Are Rights? Rebuttal AKA Your Vacuum Missed a Spot to the Right”

Monthly and Yearly Goals: January 2016

Happy New Year!

It’s 2016 now. I think the whole New Year’s Resolution thing is a tad overblown. That sentiment is obviously shared by my distant friend on the other side of this website. Still, I like setting goals for myself. It’s a challenge. And I’ve recently started publicizing my writing goals because I feel like I need to be held accountable to… whoever you are. So here are my goals for this month, as well as for 2016 in total. Continue reading “Monthly and Yearly Goals: January 2016”

Literary Inspiration – Free Verse- JG

Direction

No more time to waste; No more excuses to wait.
Overburdened by possessions, useless and extra,
Remove all these trappings of greed hidden beneath
The labels of ‘civilization’ and what society deems one needs,
Heed the call of the wild: lose your inclination for monotonous security. Continue reading “Literary Inspiration – Free Verse- JG”

January’s Theme – New Year, Same Everything Else

So much talk about resolutions. So many exclamations of how this is going to be the year, the year of big great things we couldn’t motivate ourselves to do last year but somehow, with the switching of a calendar, we shall accomplish now. Just ’cause the year’s changed, doesn’t mean I have. For both bad and good. Continue reading “January’s Theme – New Year, Same Everything Else”

“Jaed and Aston” Milestone: 100,000 Words

December has been a super slow writing month for me. The holidays always stress me out for no reason, and I had a bunch of other stuff going on this month. Thus, I fell far behind my month’s writing goal of ~35k for “Jaed and Aston”, and about a week before Christmas, I decided that I wouldn’t be able to catch up anyway. Continue reading ““Jaed and Aston” Milestone: 100,000 Words”