By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt #282 – Opposite Challenge – Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 44 words!
He an old logger. She an old tree hugger. Opposites that definitely attracted, merged and became a working unit, harmoniously blended.
He could identify trees by the shape of their needles. She expressed her desire to see the forests replanted.
They had an accord.
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
100 words
In response to Rochelle Wisoff’s Photo Prompt Response in Exactly 💯 Words!
I passed by the antique shop every day, never entering the crowded menagerie of over-used items leftover from the past.
This day was different. The compulsion to go inside so strong, my feet turned toward the shop. I found myself standing inside, surrounded by mounds of aged household paraphernalia.
A tiny woman pressed a green wooden clock into my hands, saying this was what I was looking for.
Warmth enveloped me. Memories flooded my mind. I wished I could turn back time and make things right.
I reached for the hour hand and slowly began to turn it backward.
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
The Trip – Camping Across Country
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
Friend’s like you are rare indeed
a doctor is who you need
Always you’re in a fright
that you’ve caught the blight
When we met and said hello
you asked if you looked yellow
I answered you looked just fine
May need to take more thyme
Now that we’re fast friends
I know you never mend
A name for you and the others
Collywobbles for all the sufferers
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Photo Prompt by elmowrites 100 Word Story
Where are all the children?
The playgrounds lay bare
empty of laughter
empty of shenanigans
gone are the playful squeals
of boys chasing girls
and girls capturing boys.
What manner of catastrophe
what evil pestilence or
devious war machine
has robbed this merry place
of joyful children running around
with exuberant abandonment
while attentive parents look on?
I see them! I have found the children!
Huddled safe in their homes clustered around their i-Toys, their a-Droids
and their boxes full of x’s, virtual guns and bombs. There’s their parents
on their devices, satisfying their vices in perfect disharmony.
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Fandango’s One Word Challenge – WEAK
They believe I am weak
since I can not walk well
They believe I am ignorant
because I do not speak well
I am passive and dislike confrontation
therefore I must be a coward
I am not perfect just a flawed human
they want to put me away
You believe I am courageous, smart and strong with a creative mind
Because you believe this of me
I am!
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
My feelings run amok from day
to day and night to night.
One hour to one minute,
my heart swells to nearly bursting,
then tightens into an angry fist
and swells upon your first kiss.
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Reena’s Xploration Challenge #251
Prompt Word: Jamais Vu (opposite of Deja Vu)
My grown daughter told me that this was not the first time I had awakened and been told I had experienced a stress induced heart attack. In fact she said, the diagnosis by the physician was broken heart syndrome.
I was quite positive I had not heard any of this before and voiced my opinion aloud. In my hospital room with us was the head nurse of my floor. She put away the instruments used to acquire my readings and turned toward both of us.
“What you are experiencing is called Jamais Vu, it’s the opposite of the common occurrence we refer to as Deja Vu. Because you are experiencing memory loss due to the trauma your body has suffered, it is the first time you remember hearing it,” Nurse Stephanie said.
“And will I remember this tomorrow or will it all be gone and seem new to me yet again?” I asked.
“What you are experiencing is called Jamais Vu, it’s the opposite of the common occurrence we refer to as Deja Vu. Because you are experiencing memory loss due to the trauma your body has suffered, it is the first time you remember hearing it,” Nurse Stephanie said.
“Yes, I know. You just said that,” I said with a good amount of consternation and attitude.
“I most certainly did not just say that at all. I believe you are having a Deja Vu moment, quite common after a patient has been under anesthesia for an extended amount of time,” she remarked as she left my room.
I closed my eyes and wished myself anywhere but here; or had I done that already?
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
The Sunday Whirl Wordle #572 Hosted by bwarren
Moon rises in it’s time
Nothing can lull
it from rising
between daylight hours
Merely a mute dalliance
in the busy life of Earth
If one attempts to give
the circling glowing orb
more light than it desires
Moon will throw a darkened
shadow across the broken
expanse of space to quench it
Gypsie’s Wonderful World of Words 