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The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.
This weeks words are:
habit, flash, dreams, twist, shakes, rain, scars, knitted, glass, secret, pages, huddle
The Library of Forgotten Dreams.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
-- Langston Hughes
The binding is hardened, the pages dusty.
Brown, brittle, they smell old.
The writing is ornate, with curlicue flourishes.
The pages hold stories from long ago,
Dreams, as old and as dusty as the book,
Fill the pages, secrets held by the past.
Scars too, and habits begun and dropped;
Twists of life from long ago.
Sometimes a smell or a particular tune
Will trigger a flash of recollection.
The author, not a particularly apt term
For an unaware contributor to this volume,
Will huddle over the pages. Searching.
Searching with a concerned look
And knitted brow, they shake their head:
Did this really happen? Did I do this?
Like rain on a glass pane,
The past is mottled and blurred
And just a little bit unbelievable.
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