Simply beautiful

He was always telling her she is beautiful.

She sighs and wishes she can go out and feel the sun on her skin. 

She feels  like a cocooned ball, swallowed white in self pity and depression.   

One day, she takes out his unopened birthday gift:   a brush, oils of paint and canvas.  

She reads his note once more:   


You are beautiful.    

She looks at canvas with sadness and begins painting.  

First, with anger and sorrow, then with acceptance and hope.   

Her canvas bursts with tears and passion in all the colours of life.     

   

When the doctors came to take off the bandages, she didn't feel fear nor
apprehension.    She touches the scars from the car accident, her memories 
of that night stinging her eyes.      

Holding the mirror to see her face at last, she sees what he has been saying all the time.


After all, his heart beats in her core.    
    

                                                                                   image: Duane Michals 

Author's Note:   Posted for The Mag 110 - I am trying my hand in micro fiction writing and have altered the picture a bit.   Shared with Poets United.

Thanks for the visit.     

Wine tour

The white wine swirls

hula dancing in our glass.

Inhale the ripe grapes, musky

scents from French oak barrel.

Take a sip, roll it around your palate. 

Can you taste the rich, full flavor

harvest from the earth ?

We nod, murmuring with 

urbane appreciation. 

 

Until a voice squeaked,

“Can we roast our marshmallows again?”   

Posted for Flash Fiction Friday:   A fun post in exactly 55 words.   For the G-Man.  

And Poets United:   Thursday Think Tank:   YES - I want to say YES to new experiences.

   

We had a wine tour last weekend along Niagara on the Lake, Canada.  It was a cold windy day but we had fun tasting the wine and of course, roasting our mallows in the open pit fire.    Thanks for the visit ~

Strong

Kneeling to slip off
shoes  
massaging calf, he trails
warm hands on her smooth skin


he will show her
how strong he is,
warrior king,  
carrying her effortlessly

Kneeling to slip off
shoes,
massaging legs, she tugs
to unbuckle his pants


she will show him
how strong she is,
warrior heart,
helping him walk again  



Posted for Flash Fiction Friday - Tell a story in 55 words - For the G-man.
I just learned that an officemate, newly promoted and young at 34, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.      


picture source:  here