Writing Workshop: Found

Welcome back to your Writing Workshop!

At the bottom of this post you’ll find the widget to link up your posts and always I can’t wait to read as many as I can. Thank you to everyone taking part.

First of all though, it’s my turn. I’ve chosen prompts number 2 – an event that restored my faith in something. I don’t want to explain this one too much though, it would spoil it. I want it just to be. It is about inspiration, and faith, and connection. Let’s leave it at that…

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Found

I lie covered in leaves in muddy dark.
Two jagged sprays of oaks for eyes, one bright
and oval, gently rippled beech for mouth.
My heartbeat pulsing with the ground beneath,
an echo of the life below and in
and all around. In branching, sucking root,
and creeping vine, burrowing worm and
dormant seed. Hidden, like me, from light but not
from life, connected to that tangled web.

So safe and warm it is, my peaty bed,
but lonely too, with only whispers soft
of secret, scuttling things to share my dreams.
A sense of something missing, felt, but still
unseen: a longing for a kindred soul.
And yearning fingers start to creep and crawl
their way through dirt and stone, in hope of reaching
something living feeling breathing, just like me,
to cling to in the dark, to take root in.

Surprise. As rough and hard transforms to smooth
and soft, yielding to my fingers with their own.
I turning comprehend our bed was laid
for two, companions in our solitude.
A face, as soft as rain with eyes as blue
as stars meets mine, with lips of apple leaves
to press to mine, just for a moment, till
we deem to rise, up and out, into the sun.
Our roots still joined together, intertwined.

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Photo Credit: futureancient ‘Sensitive Space’

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So now it’s your turn. What prompt did you choose?

1. What qualities or traits do you think your children have inherited from you, you partner, or even from your extended family?
- Inspired by this gorgeous photo taken by Mummy Musings: Like Father, Like Daughter.

2. Write about an event that restored your faith in something.
- Inspired by From Marketing to Milk and a dream that restored her belief (just a little bit).

3. What’s your magical power? Or what would you like it to be?
- Inspired by the Moiderer and her lovely post about being a magic mummy.

4. Tell us about a time when you didn’t feel welcome.
- Inspired by Notes from Lapland and her reflections on whether England is Child Unfriendly.

And finally, the last prompt now is going to be just one word. This should allow you a bit more creative freedom if you feel like taking the safety harness that particular week.

5. Your word for the week is: She
- Inspired by the beautiful poem on Life Slightly Used’s blog this week.

Leave your name and the URL to your post in the MckLinky below (the URL should be to your post not just to your blog) and leave me a comment to let me know you’ve taken part. If you have the time it would be great if you could try and read and comment on at least two other entries. And be kind! It’s supposed to be a bit of fun – we’re not looking for the next Booker Prize winner here.

If you haven’t had chance to respond yet, then you’ve still got till Sunday to enter your link! Or just wait till next week, when there’ll be five brand new prompts to get you thinking.

This Writing Workshop is brought to you in association with Mama Kat’s Losin’ It – who’s lovely author came up with the concept and runs her own workshop over in the U.S.

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