Showing posts with label internal struggles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internal struggles. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Alphabe-Thursday: Q is for Quarrel

Quarrel

quickly ignites

fueled by quarried mem’ries.

Queasy with fear, querulous, they

squirm with qualm beneath weight of status quo

finding themselves in quandary:

continue healing quest

or quell inner

quarrel?

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I am in the process of some very personal and difficult work encompassing the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of my life. As I am changing, relationship dynamics cannot help but change as well, be it with family or friends. Sometimes, when things appear particularly difficult, I think it would be so simple, so easy to just go back to "how I was" or "how it was". But I know I cannot. For I have had glimpses of the fruit of this labor. Even though this work is hard and fraught with fear, as long as I continue to grab the hand of God, allowing His will to be done, the healing will come. This poem is how doubt, ever cunning, can creep in stirring internal anxiety. 

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Jenny Matlock

Friday, August 20, 2010

Flash Friday 55: The Deluge

Gentle breezes become wild and untamed

Lightning flash dances, pirouetting, 

clogging across billowing, rain laden clouds

The rhythmatic, rolling thunder crescendos ever closer

A deluge approaches

The cadence of raindrops’ accelerating tempo

morphs into sharp, staccato beats upon her psyche

Fearing sleep...

fearing her dreams...

she remains on guard

As the internal storm rages on. 

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I am participating in Flash Friday 55. This weekly meme is brought to you by G-Man, over at Mr. Know it All. The object is to write a story or prose in exactly 55 words. Come join us and link your 55 in Mr. Know it All's comment section. See you there!

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