(inspired by a night in the Sahara desert- May 2017) Stories Tonight, the universe plays like television in the middle of nowhere now here, centered on the stars. It rewinds to sunset, presses pause on pastel cliff ridges painted in tangerine across green-mahogany irises. Silhouettes of four-legged beauties carry souk spells over humps of sand … Continue reading Stories (poem)
Tag: creative writing
Wanderlust A garden grows inside of the chest blooms wildflower with each beat to the wild heart watching eyes like Sunday take part in the mind taking it slow by the hour cerebral fantasies breathing in hotel linen recycled from yesterday and the day before, too busy discovering to clean up dreaming toes curled for … Continue reading Wanderlust (poem)
(inspired by my trip to Florida and the Caribbean- Sept 2014) new world heat sun light floods our eyes, hitting the bronze sand and brimming infinite crystals stretching miles down the shoreline. water the emerald tides lap our golden toes, eager for a taste of warm cooled skin shipwrecked on a no-escape island. sky a … Continue reading new world (poem)
(inspired by my travels to Lisbon, Portugal- Feb 2016) From the Santa Luzia Viewpoint Like colorful poppies, the rooftops look to the sapphire sky as the horizon flees from the windy shoreline— An escape to the next somewhere in this Iberian dream, away from the unforgiving winter. How it feels! To have warm sun against … Continue reading From the Santa Luzia Viewpoint (poem)
Postcards When all is done, and postcards are from far away, I’ll remember each step of cobblestone walks at night, gaps between pebbles rain-filled from the afternoon shower while I, lost in orientation, wandered as the buildings appeared to cave in. Their shadows reflected each detail of a lion, an angel, a bishop, carved from century’s hands: … Continue reading Postcards (poem)
Rebecca Goes Rendezvous 
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