May 16, 2025

Thorned Roses Library

Emily Rose Babbles Ummm, any easier way to keep the line breaks? I mean other than manually adding them with the page content thing down there?

Ripples

The sky shudders black upon the lake and it ripples onto mooncloth skin kissing ivory birthed pink blossom thumb printed angry purple brown

So she dives leaving her soul to rest on the shore her mind to fly in dark shadows through the trees scaring the bats to scar the sky

She dives down through sheets of satin depths she trolls mucky reaches seeing through finger tender touches and plunges elbow deep ..........

Letting go she floats breaking the surface to ascend, emerge oil satin skinned dripping stars

spilling over the slumbered soul

flowing beneath the groundless mind

She the river running toward her longing her ocean

She ripples.

Poem

: Suicide (or, There is No Truth, Only Lies) Prompt from local writers workshop

	Dave said.....
	Indefensible
	Two
	Tall Good Looking Girl - My writing group suggested that my writing has a lush, seductive quality with rich images even when I do not intend any of that. I was told there is even a warm, inviting tone in the way I read. Now, that was said as a criticism, not a compliment. I was challenged to write in plain language from an ordinary place. Thing is. I had remembered doing that for an entire period of my writing. Ok, I'm babbling. For what it's worth, here is one of them. Sigh, I like lush. I think it's purty. PS. Tis old and I am no even older,
	Velvet
	In Hope Of A Poem - A Fairy Tale - P'Shaw - Edits are needed but time, and life at present does not allow. Do you not hate it when you break your own rules? Hmmm, contradicting yourself is so very, berry.
	Victim
	Karma
	Emotional Arrest - Old stuff.
	Werewolf Moments - Cliche' - I know. I dug for imagery here, started with the prompt, which is the title, a discussion, a line that played in my head. Cliche' playing upon cliche', but I kind of like it, .