I should be sad, but I am not. I have slowly gotten news from all my stops along the way to Texas, they have had to cancel for personal reasons, and from being unsure it would work out if I was in the area. It will be fun when we all can get together, but I am okay. My trip is postponed for now. I need to be seriously working on my newest book. I already began the second book, but I am not even finished with the first one. A trilogy it will be...yes, liken to Twilight and others.
While coming up with an idea for a book for my family once the genealogy was finished, and after watching Clash of the Titans, something came to me...sadly at 2 AM in the freaking morning. My sleep is off again. Stomach issues and napping do not work well together. ARGH!!! But hey, I get some writing done.
Yep, when I think of how different I was than my siblings growing up, and how my brother (don't all brothers say this to you!) would tell me I was adopted. Making me cry, and scaring the crap out of me was his pleasure.
I know it still needs work...but is going to be part of 'My Valley of Kings' Mini-chapbook collection.
Hades On A Good Day
Growing up felt like hell,
because,
I really thought my parents
had adopted me...
------------- (middle section poem taken down for submission purposes)
a grandmother mirrored in me
a son’s face straight from Scotland
I am a fair princess, hidden
amongst peasants.
After reading this aloud to hubby; it really cracked me up! Oh well, if I cannot laugh at myself, then who...Let the summer games begin...I am turning 50 in less than two weeks...so much fun ahead!
4 comments:
This is great! We all have to laugh at our childhoods. If we don't they start to rule us as adults.
I love your last two lines...
"I was a fair princess, hidden
amongst pheasants."
We should all feel so right about being "different".
You go girl....
Ms. C., that is exactly where I crack up as I read it over and over...I even see my own brilliant writing here :)
Thanks, and much love...
Nice. I remember at some point in my teens actually being happy and certain that I WAS adopted. I wasn't.
pheasants? why not peacocks or any other kind of bird - is pheasants the word you intended or were you thinking "peasants"
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Mark Twain
now the question is will you post my comment or will you change it and never post my comment??
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