OctPoWriMo – Day 1 (What Was I Thinking???)

October 1, 2015 Off By Lisa

Well, here it is…October first.

When did that happen?

At some point during the last few weeks, I think I decided to give the OctPoWriMo challenge a try. But seriously…thirty-one poems in thirty-one days? I don’t know… But I do know that it’s been far too long since I flexed my poetry muscles, so now is as good a time as any to jump in.

20131007_184539A Moment

A fleeting moment

of fiery pink

streaks through the aquamarine sky

and I…

I was lucky enough —

blessed, in fact–

to have looked at exactly that moment.

For in the next minute,

as I watched,

it faded away and was gone…

changed

to turquoise lower

violet higher

evening sky.

© L.A.L. 2015

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Lisa A. Listwa is a self-employed writer with experience in education, publishing, and the martial arts. Believing there was more to life than punching someone else’s time clock and inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, she traded her life as a high school educator for a life as a writer and hasn’t looked back. She is mother to one glorious handful of a daughter, wife to the nicest guy on the planet, and reluctant but devoted owner of three Rotten Cats. You can find her adventures and thoughts on living life deliberately here on the blog.

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