By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: It feels good to be able to spend certain mornings working creative pieces, especially as a New Year gets underway. When is your favorite time to write during the day?] I’m going to have a Creative Writing Morning right after a hearty breakfast for strength and endurance toContinue reading “A Creative Writing Morning (A Poem)”
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The Unknown (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: A small experiment with “the unknown.“] Waiting just around the corner to pounce everywhere In all things found within each flicker out of the corner of one eye It is there and gone again between moonbeams and bursts of sunshine reaching out as if for warmth and recognition– like aContinue reading “The Unknown (A Poem)”
A Spirited Museum (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Based on the Studio Ghibli Museum in Japan, a place that it would be wondrous to visit someday.] There exists an enchanted wonderland deep within the city of Mitaka in Japan reached by the crossing of a boundary between city and forest to glimpse a massiveContinue reading “A Spirited Museum (A Poem)”
Spirited Halloween Echoes (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Every year around this time, Halloween stores pop up all over the place. Many of them, I’ve noticed, seem to occupy businesses that recently closed and are due to have new owners take them over the same space shortly. Especially for Spirit Halloween stores. It just struck me as interesting.]Continue reading “Spirited Halloween Echoes (A Poem)”
Garden of Bronze (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Based on the sculpture garden by Ricardo Breceda, which I’ve passed on a number of occasions. It’s a wonderful place.] Along a certain highway far from any city or town there exists a conspicuous garden composed of grand bronze figurines sculpted down to the most intricateContinue reading “Garden of Bronze (A Poem)”
A Gripping Kitty (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Based on my cat, and events previously mentioned elsewhere on this blog. ^_^] Oh, my sweet black kitty you have become the Queen of Gripping From books tugged by their tops off my bookshelves to towels shoveled out of cupboards upon the hallway floorContinue reading “A Gripping Kitty (A Poem)”
Mysteries Uncovered (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: I love visiting museums of all kinds. There is so much time and care put into arranging all the exhibits and sharing the knowledge they contain with anyone curious enough to see them.] I used to believe that museums were where the past slumbered undisturbed except by thoseContinue reading “Mysteries Uncovered (A Poem)”
Fireworks (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: It’s getting to be that time of year again when fireworks will soar high up into the skies. I hope to see them in person this year.] A distant whistle in the darkness followed by a slim groove of light that sails higher and higher andContinue reading “Fireworks (A Poem)”
A Wandering Troupe (A Poem)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: I missed a circus that went through my town, so I wrote about one instead. Hope you enjoy their performance.] Among ever-shifting dreamscape pathways travels a chain of interlocking caravans akin to a serpent through shadowy undergrowth with sides covered in posters that advertise attractions Continue reading “A Wandering Troupe (A Poem)”
Peek-a-Boo (A Short Ghost Tale)
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Based on a story told to me by a dear relative.] Margie Caroline had decided to sell her home. The same home shared with her husband for more than sixteen years, and then only with his memories for a year and a half after he had passed away. She rememberedContinue reading “Peek-a-Boo (A Short Ghost Tale)”