Challenged in the Garden

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The Garden always inspires me.  I wanted to participate on several prompts. I am finding the challenge, to use other people's computers a creative, royal pain.  I am resorting to my old habits of writing in notebooks.  NO big deal, right?  Wrong, I can't read my words, I write fast and I type fast. My handwriting looks like a chicken tied a pen to his feet and did a dance. My son had a class cancelled, came home to work on computer. We keep bumping heads. I'm in his way; he is in mine. I finally resorted back to the bedroom, with my IPAD.  It is fun to trick my Muse into this new habits. She was fond of her routine, but when life throws you curve balls, you either get up to bat or sit on the bench. I refuse to be benched....  How do you deal with your creative curve balls? I'd love to hear your take, on working through your creative challenges. I am still working on Kenia's challenge.

Here is Mary's challenge.  She stated this works for her, when she has trouble writing.  Use the beginning of a poem or a couplet,  to write your own poem. If you use another poet's words, be sure to give credit.  I selected a poem by  Elizabeth Barrett Browning's , "The House of Clouds"~

I selected this couplet:

In the mutest of the house

I will have my chamber

Silence at the door shall use

Evening's light of amber,

Solemnizing every mood,

Softening in degree,--

Turning sadness into good,

As I turn the key

Here is my take on the poem:

Prayers unite time's dance

Evening's light of amber,

Illuminates

 the tidal flow

chambers of gray matter 

Vibrate

Holding heaven's gate

Soul's aperture 

Opens 

Limbs of light extend

Shadows magnify 

Reflections

walk through the valley

Mood

allows dark passages

to appear

Emotions

stretch reaching rays of light

Hereafter hears a voice

Touching

Heart's symphony

it sings 

Softening in degree,--

Turning sadness into good,

As I turn the key

 

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