I left a conversation today as if I had escaped a predator. Exposed and vulnerable, I walked away doing my very best to make clear what had just transpired. The words that I spoke were of my voice and mood, but seemed completely foreign to me in reflection. It was as if I had stepped […]
Read More Progression of a Writer; Day 16Along with the changes made to inkandsea.com, we are very excited to share with you all the opening of our sister site, poetryandpetals.wordpress.com! This site was created to better access the nature photography taken by author Hugo E.Werstler and the poems that are inspired by each image. Please share and enjoy.
Read More Introducing our sister website! “poetryandpetals.wordpress.com”It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald And so it begins again. While feelings of disappoint linger, I am fervent to try once more. I want to write as easily as I breath. To put my […]
Read More Progression of a Writer; THE RETURNPlease bear with me today reader for I am grasping at ideas like loose sand between my fingers. Currently in battle with one of the strangest problems I have faced as a writer, for the world around me seems incredibly plain. The sky is blue without a cloud in the sky. Without a single blemish […]
Read More Progression of a writer; Day 15I was home. The home that was brick, that was surrounded with green, that was safe. I was in my childhood. Of course he would come into that place. A place of such powerful memory. A place that is precious to me. A place that I dare not indulge in for fear that I may break […]
Read More A Dream, no. 1The rain fell during the night as I slept, yet I feel all of its consequences as I look out upon the world today. I am wearing a sweater, its collar pulled high up against the scruff of my neck, doing its very best to protect the lobes of my ears from the brisk chill. […]
Read More Progression of a Writer; Day 13Today I will talk about pain. Today I feel it in the small of my back. A result of swimming too far with a false belief that I could compete the invisible advisory always one length ahead of me. Two months ago, the pain was in my chest. Two months ago, the medicine I took […]
Read More Progression of a Writer; Day 12I am a bad writer. I ask you to not take sympathy or discredit this statement. Simply understand, that I am a bad writer. Now, take a moment and realize how incredible it is to write “badly”. To realize how unshackled I now feel. How free I now feel! To write to my hearts content […]
Read More Progression of a Writer: Day 11Imagine if you would, a woman walking the city streets in the middle of the night. She feels incredibly alone, shivering, for the light of distant windows is neither warm nor welcoming. So she decides to create ideas in her head, many silly and others profound. The best ones she tells to herself aloud, and […]
Read More Contemplation of the constellations; Earth
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