Tag Archives: longing

Windows

Posted on November 22, 2019 by mitchteemley

Few objects are so suffused with meaning. They’re seldom “just windows.” They are symbols of the past or of the future. Of possibilities, or missed opportunities. They taunt us with freedom. Or separate the unruly world outside from the neat … Continue reading →

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How To Drive a Writer Crazy

Posted on November 13, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Ann Aschauer of Seeking Divine Perspective. With her writing, songwriting, and theatre background, I relate to Ann on many levels. But most of all I relate to her heart–one that can never get enough … Continue reading →

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The Ugly Time

Posted on December 11, 2018 by mitchteemley

I used to consider late autumn with its leafless trees and sullen skies the ugly time But then I grew up and came to understand its barren beauty how it saw the loss and longing in me and sent its moons … Continue reading →

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Displaced Poet

Posted on October 24, 2018 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is the wonderful Sarah M. Zang (a.k.a. S.M. Zang), who maintains multiple blog sites, one for her own poetry, and others for a broad community of modern writers. Sarah is an indomitable champion of other … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Falltumn!

Posted on September 22, 2017 by mitchteemley

The most conflicted season of the year, autumn, a.k.a. fall, begins today in my hemisphere. Although you wouldn’t know it since much of North America is currently experiencing record highs and record lows. But then, it’s the conflicted season. Eventually … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 35

Posted on October 19, 2016 by mitchteemley

Have you ever been to a place so enchanting that it caused you to fantasize about moving there and starting life over again?

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Happiness is Nowhere

Posted on October 15, 2016 by mitchteemley

Happiness is nowhere. Happiness is now           here. What’s the difference? Only air That sometimes fills the space for years   But know that it in time will come Although its presence may be fleeting They say it lingers long for some … Continue reading →

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Fallmost

Posted on September 17, 2016 by mitchteemley

We’re slipping into fallmost, almost fall, the not-quite season. Perhaps you think of it as notumn, not autumn. Whatever you call it… Fallmost has a certain wistfulness, a sweet, fleeting uncertainty. It’s warm rather than hot, soft rather than sultry. Early quitter leaves flutter to … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 11

Posted on May 4, 2016 by mitchteemley

Have you ever had a close call with death? What hopes or regrets consumed your thoughts?

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The Wishing Map 9

Posted on April 20, 2016 by mitchteemley

“’There’s magic in the world. And it’s waiting to be found!’ She’d said the words a million times before, but somehow this time was different. Urgent. As if it were no longer merely a motto, but a mission.”

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