a stone that is dropped in the water

In poetry today I was given my first assignment – the simple task of couplets. A list of pairs provided the perfect setting for what i came up with:

At the water’s edge I stood,
Among a green and leafy wood.

I held as sin, a symbolic stone
Which, to the water, would be thrown.

Then to the heavens rose my plea,
“Oh L-rd!” I cried, “Forgive thou me!”

And to be honest, I am quite proud of it. :-) I especially thought it was very apropos at this time of year to be given those words! Words which seemed destined to be used for something I experienced this year like no other.

M.fs

Hello world!

Welcome to my new blog: sparkling rhinestones! This blog is for those “sparkling thoughts”, ideas, and creative inspirations that one comes across day-to-day to be written down and remembered, perhaps with the potential of serving a purpose for something, somewhere, someday.

We’ll spring this first post with a segment of a verse I wrote yesterday as I was alone on one of my large yellow couches, quietly contemplating life:

…Glossy haze of dazzling shine, 
the magnitude of life. 
The whirl, the rush, the endless maze, 
shimmer, glimmer, a dimmer light. 
How many bar my way? 
How many more to take? 
Beneath my feet a stifled cry, 
slips life, through an earthquake. 
The staid hard stone, 
the polished rock, 
the marbled grout, 
the pain and shock. 
Forward, always forward, 
through the hallway of my life. 
a new light shines and passes by, 
I stop to turn my head. 
Awake at last, my fears have fled, 
my passions are here yet gone. 
The still small voice inside my heart, 
beats fast and whole, and strong. 
My heart how it beats so wildly, 
how my eyes excite my soul. 
What I see, what I hear, how it makes me sing, 
now at last I’m once again whole…

M.fs