An Ode to the Road, by Grace Rossman
There will come a time when the road will beckon you
like the outstretched hand of a lover
leading you on a new adventure.
Posted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 26, 2017 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing
There will come a time when the road will beckon you
like the outstretched hand of a lover
leading you on a new adventure.
Posted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 22, 2017 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing
I want to be a Warrior for love.
And in the deepest part of my belly,
where my fire lies…
let me be a flame for transformation and change.
Read MorePosted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 22, 2017 | Fired Up! Art & Photography, Fired Up! Writing
Photographer Rodney Tate of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, is out almost every day capturing images of birds–especially the shore birds and eagles that stalk and soar around the beaches near his home.
Read MorePosted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 22, 2017 | Fired Up! Fiction
I often dream entire passages or lines for books I’m writing and one night, I woke with this line, “I remember the Winter long ago, the one that lingered like regret.” I had to rustle around in my bedside table to find paper and pen to write it down. When your dreams offer you lines like that, you don’t say no. Later that same day, my husband came into my office and said, “You should write a story about a lynching tree from the point of view of the tree.”
Read MorePosted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 20, 2017 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Writing
“I have sat with the doctor of spices, with his kohl-lined eyes and thick dark beard, as he poured tea into porcelain tea cups infused with saffron, cardamom and cinnamon – an elixir of magic….I have felt ecstasy as the full moon has lit up the sky over the Mughal parapets and the dancers have whirled and twirled around me to the sound of tinkling ankle bells.”
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