Magaly at Poets and storytellers United invited us to write poetry or prose inspired by the following Neil Gaiman quote: “Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.”
It did get inspired and let it flow in the way it wanted. Not quite there yet but this is it for now.
A Quest for Freedom
We create stories
woven to hold us
half dream, half memory.
Fiction glows
where truth once burned,
a soft veil
between us and the wild.
The wild waits
behind the ordinary
a silent soul,
a wind-writer,
a secret blooming
against unseen walls.
We build rooms of
comfort,
adorned with gentle lies.
We trade our edges
for safety,
and call it peace.
Still, something in us
listens for more.
Let truth lean into
freedom.
Write love letters to wildflowers.
Let your bare soul rise.
You may shake
but your heart will flare
as you touch the unknown.
Speak in starlight and
river-sound.
Become the hero
of your sacred quest.
That'a gorgeous, Marja! I particularly love the last verse.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is stranger than fiction these days.
ReplyDeleteWrite love letters to wild flowers - this line is so healing like it cures all of the evil in the world. Bravo! I think it will inspire me to write a poem. Thank you, Marja!!!
ReplyDeleteLiving on the edge of a lie … somehow that line resonates as the condition that must be grappled with the most … the confusing misinformation that throws us off from healing ourselves and the world.
ReplyDeleteFiction is Escapism - 'a place where we hide from the world', the wicked, wild world. In Fiction, this world is masked by lines and lies.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm not good at that, at hiding and pretending. I wish to look reality into its eyes.
We can't hide, we show even when we cannot be seen.
ReplyDeleteLiterally too, you walk a lot, I love your pictures on FB.
(I'm chuckling a bit here, I'm thinking of the saying, "You are what you eat).
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Wild flowers deserve a torrid love letter or two.
ReplyDeleteI love this so much, Marja. I read aloud and it felt alive and fun. It left me wanting to "write love letters to wild flowers."
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