PROMPT: Writing

Daily writing prompt
What do you enjoy most about writing?

EPIPHANIES.

But, if you think about it, writing is miraculous. In the scheme of gifts that nature grants, it is way out beyond left field. Encoding ideas and images in simple characters in a way that can evoke emotional or cognitive responses in readers is kind of a superpower. (As is reading.)

PROMPT: Decision

Daily writing prompt
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

To surrender to my ignorance. If one can never know exactly what game one is playing, it becomes much easier to avoid getting worked up about whether one is playing it right or whether one will “win” or not.

PROMPT: Everyday Things

Daily writing prompt
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

My wife, movement, new & interesting ideas, play, and epiphanies.

[I’m presuming we’re using the word “thing” in the broadest possible sense — as a stand in for any noun. If it is meant in the narrower common usage of trinkets, gewgaws, baubles, and tchotchkes, then I’ve got nothing.]

PROMPT: More Every Day

Daily writing prompt
What do you wish you could do more every day?

Have epiphanies. They are quite hard come by.

Leaf Enlightened [Common Meter]

I stared, and stared, into a leaf
  until my vision changed.
 And I could see the whole, wide world
   so artfully arranged.

The leaf, it mapped my universe
   from atom to the sprawl.
 Compressed, layer-on-layer, there
    was one and, at once, all. 

But before I could grasp all that
   this vision truly meant,
  a gust of wind did catch that leaf,
     and fluttering it went.

POEM: Little-e Epiphany

The little “e” epiphany
strikes me in
the middle of the night.

Enveloped in darkness, I lie,
contemplating
the bold stories the world has told.

I think upon slapped cheeks
and
grand strategy
and
the universe outside my door.

I wonder whether one can
be change
and
change one’s being,
or
whether there’s a choice to be made.

I feel at peace —
though not enough
to drift back to sleep.