boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 2 months agopausing to look backHow quickly the days and weeks disappear. If it weren’t for these little poems and these weekly posts, what would I actually remember? It’s always surprising to me how mucboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 2 months agothe blue hourWorking with Fragments Sometimes I write from real life, sometimes I don’t. This past week, a number of one-liners, incomplete phrases, and images floated into my mindboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 3 months agointo the nightTerra Firma It’s interesting how the smell of rain, the sound of rain, even the way the spray of rain feels on the skin can bring about torrents of memories without warniboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 3 months agobeyond wordsOn the horizon I love living near mountains. The multitude of ways they present themselves throughout the year never fails to amaze me. (1)boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 4 months agoit never ends(1) preparing the Obon altar a wind chime rings they’re here (2) **over dinner Grandpa drops piecesboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 4 months agoleaving the cityLeft behind Summer vacation, and all the students are home from school, as are their belongings. Well … most of their belongings anyway. There is always something that getboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 4 months agoto an audience of noneLaundry Watching the laundry on my neighbor’s balcony blow in the wind, I wonder, will it blow away, and in that thought, I recall my first year in Japan, when my friend aboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 5 months agoby your bedside(1) spaghetti stuck to the wall my son’s laughter (2) not the way I planned to say our last goodbye</boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 5 months agoyour name fades(1) midsummer downpour quenching my parched passions (2) the construction outside a mosquito inboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 5 months agoall the colorful wishes(1) so warm the evening light in your eyes (2) sweeping the sidewalk all along thboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 6 months agolighting the wayThe other day, while waiting in line to buy steamed sugar bread at a local festival, I watched a daughter and mother standing in front of me. The daughter was so eager to sharboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 6 months agothe river sparklesI used to think that I needed time to be creative. In fact, I think that’s a fairly common misconception about creativity. But since having three children, working six dayboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 6 months agothe wind whispersHow to describe that feeling you get when … You know the moments I’m talking about, when something just strikes you as beautiful in some otherworldly way and you want to tellboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 7 months agohaunting the horizonConsistency. What does it mean to you? Does it mean performing consistently at a certain level, or does it mean consistently producing a specific quantity, without worryingboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 7 months agothe man in the fountainDriving to work, at strategic intersections, or maybe just randomly chosen corners, the latest political candidates have been speaking into megaphones, sharing their campaignboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 7 months agoa freer timeThe win this week goes to my eldest for writing a letter to his mom on Mother’s Day and wishing her a happy birthday instead of a Happy Mother’s Day. Oops. At least he perboxcarblue rebloggedpaolobeneforti in #hive-158694 • 8 months agoA short illustrated story: "Literary worlds"I'm working on a a large number of illustrated tales. I have the plots and, for some of them, the text. Right now I have a folder with around 250 short stories: some of them will…boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 9 months agothe first day of springCreative cycles, they come and go. And when you find yourself on the outside of one, you can wait for the next one to come around, or you can push yourself to just make sometboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 9 months agostillness in motionWalking along the edge of a small Japanese town sandwiched between the sea and a quick-rising mountain ridge, I came upon a temple complex with this written at its entrance.boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 9 months agocracking the surfaceAfter a slight thaw, temperatures dropped this past week, making March colder than January and February. On my morning trip to the garbage bins, the asphalt crunched under my
