a little something...

Because it has been forever (if ever at all) since I've shared creative writing on my blog, here is a poem I wrote a few weeks ago as a challenge on the forum I mentor with. I set up the challenge and used an assignment from college. We had to write a poem with the first line: No moon, it took an hour. Now, for your reading pleasure!

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No moon, it took an hour
for the rune to gain full power
and the starlight to reveal what it had known.

A kingdom bent in weeping
through the vigil they were keeping.
Mortal jars hold souls of love and hearts of stone.

Up above, the leaves they shiver
as the fairies start to quiver
letting teardrops fall in effort to atone.

Silent footfalls pound the earth
and echoes tell of the rebirth
of one worthy to reclaim the empty throne.

No moon, it took an hour
for the rune to gain full power
and the starlight to reveal what it had known.

As the rune reached full glory
at the start of a new story,
the prince once lost, into a king now had grown.

Darkness hides both fear and grace-
Oh may they mingle and embrace,
To teach courage that can face the vast unknown.

In the darkest towers
Of hearts drenched by raging showers
Do remember well the lessons hope has shown.

No moon, it took an hour
for the rune to gain full power
and the starlight to reveal what it had known.
(C) by SDD, 6.26.07

pardon my absence...

I've been busy. A few of you know that I recently became a mentor on an online, teen writing forum that a friend of mine runs. Well, this week we've had several of these teens here in town for a visit. I was a bit apprehensive about meeting so many teenagers, but they soon put my mind at ease. We've gone hiking and read some of our work out in the lovely Colorado outdoors. We've been writing a lot and even went to the top of Pike's Peak. Here are a few photos (in an interest of not posting photos of minors, I'm not including pics of the teens).

Me at the top of Pikes Peak. This is the first time I've been up there in years and I drove!

A nice shot looking over the valley.

This is my friend, Dianna, who runs the forum. She's a sweetheart :)

tirp to the zoo...

This morning, I joined Shelly (and her 3 kids), Becky (and her 3 kids), Krista (and her 2 kids) and Deb (and her child) at the zoo. That makes 9 kids and 5 adults. We had a lot of fun. Here are some pics.

This little guy was born just last week, so cute!

Here is one of our two resident elephants, posing so nicely for the camera.

Sitting in the shade, just hanging out.

and the curtain falls...

Enough said...

so you want to be in the movies?

Okay, so I don't really have any power to get you on the big screen. Let's face it, if I did, I would have made my own debut a long time ago. But there is a way you can help aspiring writers obtain the dream of writing a screenplay or stage play.

For all your searching needs, simply go to www.goodsearch.com and select The Office of Letters and Light as your charity. For every search you do, they get a penny. I know, a penny isn't much, but it adds up. As a poor, aspiring writer myself, I have no money to give to ScriptFrenzy (which is run by the OLL) this year, or to NaNoWriMo (also run by OLL). But I can encourage all my readers to help out. And if you have a lot of extra cash around (or even $10) please consider making a tax-deductible gift to them by visiting here.

And thank you for helping all of us writers dream big and write wonderful stuff which may be coming to a theater near you sooner than you know!

(And as a side note, I'm at 16,000 words, which means I have to write 2,000 each day for the two days left of June to be a winner. I can do it!)