http://slow.writerscafe.org/Blackbird7 The original writings of author Laura Lynn en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776038706 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 a bit different to differentiatethis was a language of creaturesthat only scientists had seenbrought to tears by deformitieselse favor falls to a brighter tidehas this bounty fallen off its stilts?often home is just a place to stayvibes are chords, minor, majoran echo sometimes mechanical http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1857683/ Someone is out there in the distance,Cribs and cradles, soup and ladles,Riverside company, a slow morning,Is this enough?  Have I learnt my lesson?Valentines is three months away.Broken promises, traitorous love withoutOur righteous brothers, or sisters feelingReason a bear, the hibernating win.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1857633/ Colder than it was in summer Evenings now seem to go by Super quickly so that life seems Too fast and free, and crying Frustrated by all that is and All that isn't. Why should we, Inch worms on a forgotten tree, Tarry over flimsy dreams, filaments Carrying a million untoward, Obscure echoes, like d.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1833873/ After a while the trenchesUniformly cave in, likeFrench macaroons madeErroneously, you can hate,Noticing within yourselfThe things you have beenHarboring in your spirit,And I shall take a coinLaughing and throwing it intoThe fountain.  I shall be young,So young again, but wantingToo much from t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1687715/ SALIK-PASSABLE, SALIMA-SAFE http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1687702/ Have yourself a merry little HamletUnkempt by the virtue of rats, &Mice.  You have stuttered alongUnfortunate highways with meQueenly to the king, and kinglyHigher than all toppling virtuousAplomb.  Please you fantasy of myMaking, settle down now, and watchA green grape laugh, she did .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1687696/ Her mother is sour,And his mother too,Maybe I will be sour,Unlike a banana whichDoesn't have the tangAn orange does, purityHas sprung up out of his Astounding lips like oceansMake me a lover in his domain,Drunken by his affection http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1687692/ Actually my rage embarrasses me,Unlovely, it is, however, the fairFire that I need to drive me on,Breath to treasure this day, Laps around the frequent neighborhood,Ever you had your rules and wouldn't tell me,If I learned your rules, I would be orderly more so,But it is speculation, like everything.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1687651/ After giving, indicate, just tell us pointing Not to be rude but to give us the correct answer.Gnomes came out of the mud, we thought they were bornEarning mushrooms, I cannot say so and describe myself,Breaking under the weight of lost hopes, ultimatums,Evaporated into a lesser understanding, think.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1686623/ JALOUSIE-VENETIAN BLIND. JAMMER-MISERY. JAMMERLICH-MISERABLE. JAMMERN-MOAN. JANKER-JACKET. JANNER-JANUARY. JATEN-WEED. JAULEN-HOWL, YOWL. JAUSE-SNACK. JAWOHL-YES SIR, YES MA'AM! THAT'S RIGHT. JE-EV http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1676836/ GERUST-SCAFFOLDING. GERADE-STRAIGHT LINE. GESAMPT-WHOLE. GERSTE-BARLEY. GESCHAFT-BUSINESS. FRANSE-FRINGE. FREMD-STRANGE. FRIST-DEADLINE. FROH-GLAD. FROTTEE-TERRY CLOTH. FRUCHT-FRUIT. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1676614/ NEID-ENVY. NEIGEN-BEND. NEIN-NO. NELKE-CARNATIONCLOVE NENNEN-NAMECALL. NERZ-MINK. NETT-NICE. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1676565/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1676550/ Hannah looked up at the moon,And knew it was a world untoItself.  She was on her way toFrance to see the prison there.If they were still using Guillotines,She didn't know.  Did they applyChemicals to their prisoners likeHer country did?  She didn't know.She was surprised to see a tall.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1671738/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1671714/ All bodies have been accounted forCome tomorrow, with blessingCalm my desperate Heart.  I remember those I have loved.I cannot always love for the heart is dark.All my children, the soap opera, (the opening credits,) but to only have one, a sadnessPromise me body you will be diligentPlodding al.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1515961/ All of a sudden, the telephone rangCalling the police terrified meConvincing myself I ought to go uptownInstantly my life as I then knew it was overDriving me to a diner downtownEating and crying impossibleNames and nail polishThe city would be stepping inA crackle of panic rising in my voiceThe wor.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1515257/ NoticeAt Clouds Climb On Rocks Growl East Roost Strutting Independent Ducks InconsolableShrewdAcerbic Conscience Claude Opposes, Ruling Tables Overestimated.ForethoughtAt CreedsCrossesOn RocksTenetsEagle Take StockApproachHurryAs Currents Cross Oceans Rise Risking, Encroaching Rough Evanescence Appr.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1506786/ Oh What a Night,The cold outside, the heat inside, hours to worry aboutthe future, what money there will be or won'twhat politics what poetics are played....Here we are with our video games,they mesmerize us for hours...I will never learn French, Italian, German, Arabic, or even Hebrew,it is too muc.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1481883/ If only I could have as much personalityand be as nice as FlutterShy and Pinkie Piethe most beautiful ponies!They've really helped the world now,Oh Rainbow Dash and Rarity,what names, who were your creators.You've done a number on the 21st century.Who would have thought they could improve!Oh My Litt.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1468647/ Pretty, gray mocking jay, your acceptancewas all Darwin needed.  Your closestliving relative, not polyglot but cunningthrasher, a controversy for his evolution,his contested theory of transmutation.Did he study his words with the tortoises,or would he not prefer your amphibiousrep.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1467062/ Am Itrying to say something new with an axe?Can you blame us, when some say that’s whatcowgirls or cowboys need, just call us cowhands?Every night I say what everyone has said before;take us in and give us your time.  Howwill we treat each person with respect?  .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1466974/   “If your old don’t try to change yourself,change your environment.”                                &nbs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1466451/ “In governing othersyou must do what you can do, not all you would do.”  ~ItalianProverb Always red, thatvibrant, true red color, the red, the man in the store assuresme.Candor in a color, a definition of onedeceptively simple hue.  C.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1465823/  “Begin to weave and God will give the thread.” ~German ProverbAll it needs is a beginning, a middle, and an arbor.The plan is to put up arbors for roses, make cuttingsfor new plants, and for seedlings cultivate compassion.Or will someone?  They wonder, ho.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1465589/ Goodbye, good-buying angels,who see the last light of Christmasfade with worn year’s end, cryingas the ball drops, accomplisha sense of quiet evisceration, vyingfor attention with their flutes airily raised.  On skislopes lapping upthe winter’s milk-white lands.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1463478/ Tonight, the twinkling decorations adornthe tree like an old hat worn in an old car,but a Hollywood convertible after its cause.For sunsets, and still moments, the enginesstill turn around like ten drummers for pity’ssake, or Christ’s, and a hollow log echoeslike a tinny st.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1461479/ A little reindeer is kidnapped.Christmas will be full of rain.Christmas will be fat, happy,all about wrapping presents,tying up packages with string.Too many gifts was always obnoxious, but abundant, anuisance of undesired familiarity.   A little joke is in the names,go.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1460750/ Arenas, for combat,contrast with cozy fireplaces;coy as fish, doll as dish,arguments fizzle,succulents live in the dry desert.Cowering in a corner, the mouseis afraid of people.  How didaristocratic mice get in?Repeatedly, she says it was a crazyset up. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1459995/ ----------------------------------------------------Marriages and babies: congratulatoryphrases, fail me not.  What will compel us to excel?  What will not? Assemblethe great Kahuna together.  Nearbythe television beckons, the textureof acrylic yarn.  I overreactt.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1459573/ Feeling the body undergo acclimation, gently the purslane lives with candor.Ingredients for cookies in a canisterand self-defense to counter accusation. I feel like I should be shopping next toother bargain hunters. A brand traitor,I am a bad shopper. Supplies outnumber demand. I could.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1459507/ …flowers to Arrange,walking up the Creakystairs I Craveno one wants to be the poor one, Astridedemarcated poverty, floating on a cloud, NeglectedImperfectly, I could have anotherRental agreementsShame, depicted in paintings, becomesIrredeemable time, you better make it as .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1459130/ to come up with excuses, accompare scuse http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1459067/ I was afraid to write from the heart. I felt elated.  Now the day is not over,the night is not over.  What am I in lovewith?Who am I in love with?  I feel loved.I could praise God, I feel so happy,but out of respect for my friend, I refrain.Yet I praise God. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458726/ All I want to do is rush away sometimes.Camp was all I could see, the forest, the trees...Camp was a refuge from the horrible city.Acknowledge the world, get me away, I never wantMagnanimously to stay, but I want to serve more. He'dpull the wool over my eyes, but I don't want to be tricked.Acne has .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458206/ At the play area, I try to get my son to eat.Crazy as the children are, screaming and laughing ourCooked carrots and broccoli, cold leftover chicken.At once, I am lost to olden days.  I shall onlyLove what I can.  How will I start over? Where?Daytime quickly became night. We left before th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458198/ accademia, accademico, accadere http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458193/ non capire un'acca http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458188/ notebook scrawl while watching son at mall's kids' play area http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458182/ If only I could figure out that the horrible aspects are not all the truth of it,collecting all the dimes for our sweet planet, a foreign exchange waits right there.Earth rotates, spins about on its axis.  Those people are no more than any other.Behold you are in your perfect world but you can'.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1458173/ Sheflies with her own wingsAdmittance,widow, to the ends of the earth, Brunt law barricading this indecision.  Repeal fakeness, some people are not fake just unreadable.Omitting what a person did not want publicized, that is good.Grateful and whole, we must see what to ill.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1457641/  Away from the rest ofthe world, I worry that I will read too many books.Bright ideas abound.  I worry that I don’thave time for a job to get to work.  Occupations are so many.  Some people mustbelieve that women should not berequired to work outside of the .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1457264/ Abominablegraduate, prudence Blocks us, but be careful undeservedOhio bespeaks success.  Sure balancemelds the measure into madness, butin the quiet raving night is brilliance.Needle along the copper day, the rainEquals this blessed success, a cadenceVilifying only the sense.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1457208/ Annuity, every year, creatures of habits wedepend onBroth.  I thought the people denied to me werebetter.  Inaccessible, I tell myself is notbetter. See her impressive fillet. Thesis and synthesis, the meaningscollide and seem unheeded.Untiringly the seamstresses arew.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1457187/ An ordeal waspresented. Submit me to this painful test.Bring me some much neededsanity.  I am older than I was.  I rushed into the public places miles awaybutthen felt only rushed, trying tofind something I couldn’t.Under the roofs of places, stillhoping to find.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1456928/ Accustomed to tales of the Gold, Silver, orBronze Ages, we’ll plan or follow a circuit.Imposters match and do not match each other.Thereabouts they’d go for a better climate.Untimely travel out of necessity. I was gold.Austere as old men and women we’ll closet,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1456652/ ...I am grateful friends, all friends... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1456550/ For the benefit of another ageAggregate masses see the truth of the age, extending across boundaries.Blame eats the minute like my grandmother ate rice cakes. I soak ininviolate memory, a man who is himself, the body which I could not have.There is another body, they tell me, neither.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1456535/ Progress: Esse quam videriArguably thereis promise, oh great dancers, artists,Bemoaning your own culture. I long for another also.Invasion of the Body Snatchers,terrifying images, weThink through our drained hours by sunlight and blinds.A donation comes in the form of prese.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1456517/ Adream came to me in the hours before waking, I was looking for theBad-tempered attachment I had made of myself to someone, thoughit was a cause of my upbringing to cite an excuse.  Again, I was searching�"trite expressions were unnecessary in this particular instance be.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Blackbird7/1456398/