Writing Prompt #6 Describe the perfect home. Make that home come alive; put yourself in your mind in that place. How large or small is it? Where is it located? I’ve often thought about this very thing, as I believe we all have. I remember playing MASH in grade school with the notebook paper folded to fit over our fingers. What was it called? Chinese something catcher. Anyway, mansion-apartment-shack-house. Of course mansion was the one to shoot for. Back in those days an apartment was out of the realm of our comprehension, and we didn’t know a mansion in Seymour until the Creutzinger monstrosity was built. I could see my dream house clearly, probably pulled straight from Gone With the Wind: a Greek Revival with the two story columns, dark red brick, circular driveway, a Juliette balcony off the master bedroom, swimming pool (mine would have to be indoor, or at least covered with tinted glass to keep me from frying like an egg), stables for my many breeds of horses (at least seven: one for each day of the week), a greenhouse, and the river out back. There would be magnolia trees lining the alleé, a black wrought iron gate with scrolls that would swing back from the monogrammed center to admit you after you cleared entrance via the intercom system. The fences would be curvy brick, except where they were black wood plank. Back then I admittedly never gave much thought to the…
“You are moonlight,” I told himPresent and dependableCalming above all elseThe peace it brings knowing it will be there tonightEven if nothing else willThe moon is not often showyIt is humble Orbiting EarthLetting her steal the showShining as a backlightBut with an irresistible pullWhole or partial Even when it cannot be seenIt is feltIt is powerfulIt is unstoppable There is no such thing as too much moonlight You cannot burn from itIt will not blind youIt just lights the wayIt guides baby turtles homeIt is in every bedtime storyIt is stalwart And steadyIt is not fickleOr vainMoonlight is romanticAnd I feel the pull nowTo just let itWhere would I goWhat would I doDrownIn the things I cannot sayIn the daylightWe must wait for the moonAnd the moon Will wait for us…