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Tag Archives: Flower

July 30, 2014

Lost

Beauty, Creativity, Flower, Gardening, Ideas, Imagination, Nature Beauty, circles, echinacea, Fantasy, Flower, Ideas, illusion, Imagination, Nature, pattern, star Leave a comment kjoimp

Red-tipped points collide with circles within an illusion of stars creating timeless patterns that collapse to a center just in time to make you forever lost.

July 7, 2014

Bee

Beauty, Gardening, Nature, Poem bee, daisy, Flower, Nature, sun Leave a comment kjoimp

Warming morning rays have not yet reached her tissue-paper-thin wings. She is caught, immobile.

March 25, 2014

Fallen Star (part 28)

Imagination, Nature, Short story, Story bike, Flower, metronome, Nature, Psychic, short story Leave a comment kjoimp

The star swung, like a metronome… back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, until Jodi felt something shift inside—like finely tuned tumblers clicking into place. It was as if she were watching herself from somewhere outside of herself. She watched herself dismount her bike and walk it up the walkway to the cottage.…

February 16, 2014

Orchid (part 13)

Death, Fantasy, Ideas, Imagination, Short story Fantasy, Flower, short story Leave a comment kjoimp

In a frenzy to reach the orchid first, my hand brushes her hand. I gasp as a cold I’ve never experienced penetrates the area she has touched. The chill is complete: it is like death. Now, all I can do is stand here holding my hand, watching as she leisurely picks up the flower. When…

February 4, 2014

Orchid (part 1)

Fantasy, Short story Dream, Fantasy, Flower, Orchid, short story Leave a comment kjoimp

I find myself standing in the middle of a square, holding a black orchid. I am reminded of a place I have visited in my dreams. Crumbling stone walls form a circle around me and two huge lion statues, cast from shiny black metal, stand guard beside the entrance. Colorful pennants hang regularly in stark…

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