Song of Songs
By Avallina Balestri (alias Rosaria Marie) Word Count: 371 Rating: G (suitable for audiences) Summary: A poet hopes to be a small voice for beauty and Truth. Let my life be spent out Like the…
Month: April 2018
Visions in the Streets: A Movie Review of “Don Bosco”
Year: 1988 Filming: Color Length: 108 minutes Genre: Biography/Drama/Inspirational/Religious Maturity: PG (for brief language and intense thematic elements) Main Cast: Ben Gazzara (Don Bosco), Patsy Kensit (Lina), Karl Zinny (Giuseppe), Laurent Terzieff (Monsignor Gastaldi), Raymond…
Blood and Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Serial – Epilogue: Shower of Petals
The candles flickered in the silence of the halls, yet their swirling smoke whispered to each other that death had fallen on this place, that it lay moldering on the edges of fallen…
Spring Thoughts
Springtime comes around, Finding us caught, helpless In the merciless clutches of cabin fever, And it releases us, sets us free To go outside again, and enjoy the weather But only for a little while.…
The Willows Are Calling
The willows are calling The ice-river mellows Sparrows let forth a cry Of triumph over Winter, of hope soon unfettered Captive Spring bursts forth from her chains The oak trees are hailing The light in…
Earth Mercy
Sing of Mother Earth Who we must tend As grateful sons and daughters Born to soil and water Flame’s fury and wind’s breath As our natural inheritance The landscape has a face The rivers run…
I Met a Wolf
By M.C. Pehrson Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Word Count: 67 Summary: The poet recounts her unexpected meeting with a wolf One day, outside, I turned and met a wolf. Proud amber eyes Gazed intently…
Christos Voskrese!
For Tod *** The world is unusually quiet this dawn With fading stars withdrawing in good grace And drowsy, dreaming sunflowers, dewy-drooped, Their golden crowns all motionless and still, Stand patiently in their ordered garden…
Gifts: A Star Trek Story
By M.C. Pehrson Word Count: 4288 Rating: PG for a small amount of thematic content. Summary: Spock and his daughter T'Beth have some healing to do over Christmas. Author’s Note: This story is one of…
The Pack Survives…Sort Of: A Game of Thrones Story
"'Tell them the North remembers. Tell them winter is here.’” Arya smirked. “You should have seen their dumb Frey faces,” she said as she propped her boots up on the table and gazed at her…