I read a book by Rainer Maria Rilke some time ago called Letters to a Young Poet. There is a passage that I came across today that I feel the need to share here with you: “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms […]
Some thoughts about Rilke, writers’ block and creativity — Writer of Words, etc
Category: writing
Attitude of Gratitude January 28 2021 — Annette Rochelle Aben (Reblog)
Thank you, for your Attitude of Gratitude: Some people toss the phrase, I LOVE YOU around like they are flinging confetti at a party. So, you might be tempted to think them insincere, Bur anytime you are told I LOVE YOU, it is a direct comment from a higher source and the speaker, merely the […]
Attitude of Gratitude January 28 2021 — Annette Rochelle Aben
Understanding
I sat with him at the table. He offered me bread, a goblet of wine. After I partook he gave me a quill, some parchment, his smiling eyes encouraging me to write. Somehow the quill took over, gliding across the surface with ease. Before I knew it I was looking at a line of words I didn’t recognise. I looked up at him, his kind countenance pitying my ignorance.
“Try reading it again,” he said.
I looked down — suddenly the script made sense. “Reading what I have just written, I now believe.”
A gentle smile was pursing his lips.
Copyright Francis 2020
*dVerse Monday night Prosery
‘Private Disclosure’ — Flash fiction
With news of Babylon burning around the world, I ventured out with my dog onto the bleak winter marsh, Christmas hat on.
Unexpectedly, a wind arose; Carly went crazy, barking, leaping, whilst I cowered on the ground, unsure of what was happening. There was an eerie light around us, a spinning disc above, descending, flashing multi-coloured beams in all directions. I made out symbols of a man, a lion, an ox, an eagle, emblazoned in gold light on the side, fixed signs of creation; Carly went quiet, whimpering between my legs. Suddenly the most beautiful woman I had ever seen stood before us, dressed in flowing silver raiment, her eyes a penetrating cyan.
“Why me?” I asked in my mind.
“Why not you?” she replied, smiling faintly. “Simply understand — this Christmas is like no other. I have to show you, not tell. Now you know.”
With that she was gone; Carly began to bark and leap once more, feigning attack on the craft which rose silently, before zipping rapidly away towards the gelid north, higher and higher, until it became a tiny point of light among revealing stars.
An extra terrestrial, or some inter-dimensional being? An angel could take any form, I figured. So was I some latter day Ezekiel, primed for changes, a release from this lower dimensional captivity? Either way, in my heart all fear and doubt was gone; this one incident encapsulated the time: The new age of disclosure had begun.
Copyright Francis 2020
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