http://slow.writerscafe.org/SilentDream The original writings of author SilentDream en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776181855 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 My peace comes when I sit and face youI wait for permission in the pausePlace my hands on both sides of your headSpread my fingers, bow my head just because I feel you and the stress that's grown in youand the pulsing beneath my thumbsMy stillness is not yet your calmIts weight feels like where.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/2171607/ open mic, resulting discussions, and conversations still necessary {{sigh, smh}} in 2019 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/2119213/ I refuse... I refuse to believe that emptiness is normal, that less or loss is a given, and not quite is a way of living.  This unnatural way of being disrupts my soul.   This isn't home. I struggle to recall how tangible breathing is meant to be, how time is a beautiful thing wh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/2105188/ Written for a challenge. Ten words given. Use at least five. CASCADE ENCOMPASS LULLABY SONOROUS TALISMAN COARSE SHUN CACOPHONY MALADROIT GROTESQUE http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/1894260/ Written for a challenge. A response to a quote. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/1894258/ Written for a picture challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/1891663/ I find myself holding my breath for the duration of the long pauses in Cristofori's Dream by David Lanz http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/1533416/ originally shared during Autism Awareness Month http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/1458171/ Assignment: Take a short story or poem. Modernize the outcome or rewrite a conflict. After reading "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, I disagreed with what felt like acquiescence. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/1365338/  watercolors(Tumbling Tercets)expanses… a dipp’d canvasand bristles soaked in sighs…drawing blue from the corners and the stillness of white,to layer the earth with silencerich enough to get lost inwhile wandering through shadesof green and th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/412711/ Fear, itselfKai stands outside of his uncle’s house staring at the chipped red paint onthe front door. His packed bag bulges at the seams and the music pumpingthrough his ear buds is turned up as loud as he can stand. He makes surethat the expected scowl of a teenaged boy is fixe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/411412/ cadence(Tumbling Tercets)your fingertips graze my lipstentatively…the moment a sighescapes me, shaken…aflutterstirred as your gaze caresses,traces the curve of this smilesoftly growing…and knowingintensity mounts with patience.And words tempt me when wh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/396260/ shared for Albert's Poetry Cafe ~ Poet Craft: Form "The Dorsimbra" with Salvatore Buttaci http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/393339/ Written for a Short Stories Inspired by Genre, Short Stories Inspired by Pictures and Inspired by Phrases challenges http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/381554/ Written for The Pagemaster's Challenge #11 Inspired by William Shakespeare's Sonnet 5 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/365938/ written for a Quotes That Inspire Challenge and Picture Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/351926/ shared for The Pagemasters Challenge #8 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/347205/ Written for a Short Stories Inspired by Pictures Challenge (Sketch Story) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/342615/ Freewriting Exercise shared for The Pagemaster's Challenge #7 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/340100/  scripted…(Tumbling Tercets)  another’s voice seeksto strip away truth,belie verse borne of nothing less…saying it’s not sountil convinced, but scripted insistence is lost on a knowingheart.  I remain u.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/338489/ Written for Toonersworld Quotes That Inspire Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/335012/ Written for Albert�s Poetry Caf� ~ 10 word Picture Inspiration w/Tovli http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/320522/ written for Toonersworld Picture, Word and Quotes That Inspire Challenges http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/319907/ written for a Word Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/316322/ written for a Word Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/310110/ Written for Toonersworld World Challenge and Toonersworld Picture Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/302904/ Written for Toonersworld Inspired by Music~"Nightminds" piano instrumental and Toonersworld Picture Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/297410/ written for Toonersworld Word Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/290520/ for the Six Word Biography contest http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/287807/ the way I see solitude... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/287794/ Written for Tovli�s AnyFORM Goes Challenge Using the phrase: It was a good line � guitar in the distance� besides, I liked his melodies http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/285258/ Written for Albert�s Poetry Caf� 10/40 ~ use 10 words given. poem's length 40 words... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/284370/ shared for the Well, That's Depressing contest http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/279716/    Regarding this...(Tritina)     A page unlined with flecks of gold and tanAwaits the touch of tempered, steadied handWhile muted thoughts spill forth regarding thisOf whispered words and smudges such as thisSo blurred, unseen in.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/266518/ Written for Toonersworld Quotes That Inspire Challenge and Picture Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/265145/ written for Angelinmypocket's Follow the Dream Challenge Using the phrase: Love letters in the sand http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/259568/         Of whispered word I dare not sayTo fill a pause, this halted day A dawning drifts ‘pon misted wrongThis songbird sighs in want of song In sweetness I deny, there’s noneFor wanton verse that touches on.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/259553/ written for Poet's Haven Pathways to Writing Poetry Exercise http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/259138/ written for a Short Story Picture Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/258669/ written for a Short Story Genre Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/258653/ written for the Quotes That Inspire Challenge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/SilentDream/258599/