What do I wish for
my daughter
on her eleventh
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Recovery is Ribbiting
Update the day after surgery: I may be a bit green from the meds, but my kids are bringing me tea and tucking my blankets tighter. I’m managing to keep down simple foods. Thanks for all the good wishes, friends. Life is good. Hope you have a magical week!
Surgery Tomorrow
When the anesthesia mask is tightened,
I won’t think of scalpels.
No, sir.
I’ll remember the way wildflowers dance,
humming with honeybees.
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Happy Valentine Friday!
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
it’s Valentine Friday
so yippee and WAH-HOOOO!
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Wishes have Wings
In the faraway summer,
wishes took flight. Wishes of
healing, happiness, and light.
And peace, joy, and plenty for all,
whether busy as bees.
Or lonely and small. Continue reading
Warm by the Fire
May your holidays
be warm by the fire,
full of light and cheer! Continue reading
Orchid Wings
daydreams of flying,
white wings, soaring, gliding
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Pump up the Color
As leaves drop
and flowers fade,
summer lingers in
memories made.
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A Halloween Story
Halloween Party Prep
The littlest Trick wept white, cobwebby tears when Lord Phantomdor chose potion-boiling witches.
Choose me! he thought. Too shy to shout, he stayed still as a pumpkin.
Trick’s cheery smile was not Halloweeny, but he couldn’t frown with a party coming. Nor could he let go of his wish.
Trick smiled despite tears trickling and tangling into a thick, stingy mess while Lord Phantomdor chose ghasties, spook-dashes, rook-chompers and bald-banters, until
Lord Phantomdor’s eyes fell on the scariest –
now looking like a funnel spider lair –
the littlest Trick had turned into the best party decoration of all.
And was chosen.
Copyright 2019 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: This 100-Word Story (not counting the title) was written for Susanna Leonard Hill’s spooky kids lit contest. Feel like crafting one yourself? Or witch-crafting one?
Writing Tip — first figure out what your main character wants and why s/he can’t get it. Then tell his/her story with a beginning, a middle and an end.
Hope you stay safe and don’t eat too much candy today!
Looking Long
Looking long
at another’s days —
so different,
and free.
But is the other
discontented —
looking with longing
at me?
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Being Smaller
reminded of my size
by a nearby butterfly,
trying to blend
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Candy Stripes
summer scents —
sunscreen, seashores, soft serve
and bursting blooms
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Friendly Fairy Tales 