Visual Verse is a creative writing platform publishing the best writing submitted in response to its monthly photo prompt. Chapter Ten is packed and brimming with words that rupture and explode off the page. Penned by a plethora of talented poets and writers, I am proud to be part of this month’s ongoing collection of writing.
August’s prompt inspired me to delve into what it feels like to become lost and enraptured in a good story. When I read, I read slowly and savor each word except when I devour every letter and the ink becomes part of my bloodstream because good stories touch on the basic emotions, observations, and thought streams that most of us experience daily in our lives. Good stories are timeless because they take those elements and present them so clearly, so uniquely, and so beautifully that each of us takes away something personal, be it from one word or one image recalled in response by remembrance.
Seek out those stories. Learn to recognize the gem of personality among the masses. Tell those stories. Learn to unearth the plain soil of your life and discover a quartz crystal among the dirt.
I invite you to enjoy Enriched and perhaps momentarily lose yourself to memory.