Faces, Forms, and Things 62: Lunis

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Faces, Forms, and Things 62: Lunis

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An Old Tale from the Early Days

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An Old Tale from the Early Days

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Skyway 19: Dreamland

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Skyway 19: Dreamland

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Bump in the Night

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Bump in the Night

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Today's Tendril...

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Today's Tendril... "Three Things"

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Alive, Awake, Aware 8: The Selves in Context

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Reflections by Moonlight - Three Tendrils for Today

Never underestimate the power of a cool, crisp, and breezy autumn day... to calm, naturally, evenly (and to slow the world down, just a little bit); to revitalize the heart, mind, and soul (together as one); to become a character in a story of your own design (and smiling as it unfolds).

 

A ball and a dog's tail wagging a hundred miles an hour can alter (your) time and space...for the better.

 

All of the "in-between" moments, and all of the "prosaic" moments, are no less valuable, and no less precious, than the epiphanies, the shockers, and the brainstorms.

"Reflections by Moonlight - Three Tendrils for Today"

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Harvest Moon

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Salve 1

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Recounted and Replayed

Autumn grey.
   Winter blue.
Spring ahead.
   Summer stew.

Thunder rumbles.
   Daylight dies.
Lunar madness.
   Midnight cries.

Echo canyon.
   Raven’s way.
Circled crops.
   A prayer to say.

Oh to recall,
   Mental bricks,
   In life's wall.

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Longing and Vows

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Real for a Moment 3: Lampposts and Moon-clouds

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Original photograph by M. DeRobertis (Used with kind permission)
Artwork & unreality by C. DeRobertis
Dedicated to D, with deepest thanks

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Boundaries

I rise when the sun yawns," said the vampire.

"I prowl when the moon is a white hole in the night," said the werewolf.

"I haunt the living when the clock strikes midnight," said the ghost.

"I come ashore when the tide is high," said the sea monster.

"I appear on the left shoulder whenever the opportunity presents itself — which is often," said the Devil. And the Devil smiled.

The others felt a chill go up their spines.

The End

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Flexible Reality

The truck was red.
     The moon was green.
The door was black.
     The field, serene.

The pickle burped.
     The shoe, it sneezed.
The frog did croak.
     The tension?
          Eased.

 

About

The flexible reality — only available in the minds of artists, dreamers, and children.

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Alive, Awake, Aware II

Alive, awake, and aware,
      With a crescent moon for a lounge chair.

Tranquility and sentience are sublime,
      When turning chaos to order,
            One tendril at a time.

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Through the Dark

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Good Morning

     "Time to wake up the birds," said the Moon to the Sun. "I like to listen to them as I drift off to sleep."

     "Certainly," said the Sun. "Anything else?"

     "Yes. Would you let the dew last a little longer today? The glistening dew drops are my fireflies," said the Moon.

     "Consider it done," said the Sun. "Anything else?"

     "No, I'm all set," said the Moon. "Thank you."

     "You're welcome," said the Sun. "Have a good day's sleep, my friend. Dream of rivers and waterfalls; clouds and trees, and snow-capped mountains."

     "Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day," said the sleepy Moon.

     "It will be," said the smiling Sun. "It most certainly will be."

     The End

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One Christmas Eve

One Christmas Eve,
When I was a young boy,
I tried to stay awake
To catch a glimpse of Santa Claus
     Sail across a starry sky.

But the Sandman was stronger than my will,
And I fell asleep,
     Santa cap and all,
On folded arms,
     On the cool window sill
          Of my cozy little bedroom.

I didn't see Santa that night,
But I dreamt of a majestic reindeer,
With antlers of silver and gold,
Walking proudly through powdered snow,
     Towards a blue-white light
          That twinkled just above the horizon,
While the Moon's midnight rays softly rang,
     Like bells and chimes
          Being played,
          By the wind,
          Using only
             The feathers of angels.

 

 

About

An unused tendril to the vignette: At one point the reindeer stopped, turned his head, and gently nodded.

The accompanying image is based on a photograph of a shadow of a Christmas decoration.

One morning the sunlight hit the decoration just right and the shadow on the wall became the shadow of a story.

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A Daydreamer's Bucket List

1. Create tornadoes the size of spinning tops and hold them in the palms of my hands
2. Fly — under my own power
3. At will, turn my eyes entirely white, then make them glow
4. Take a nap — on the Moon
5. Pluck clouds from the sky and eat them
6. Step into a mirror and explore the other side
7. Make an origami dragon come to life and then go on adventures with it
8. Discover lost verses to the Book of Revelations
9. Spend a few nights in a little cottage on the Island of Misfit Toys
10. Finally catch a rainbow

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Tipping Point

     While waiting at the end of a long, long line at a popular coffee shop during lunch hour, a masked and costumed avenger grew ever more disgusted with the whiny, self-important patrons complaining that the "service here is horrible," that they have "more important things to do than wait on a line," and that they "only get one lunch hour."

     The straw that broke the camel's back was a fat, designer-label flaunting, cell phone earpiece wearing "executive" who raised hell when his extra hot nonfat organic double whipped decaf macchiato with low calorie chocolate syrup drizzle and a light dusting of cinnamon was only moderately hot and heavily dusted (so claimed the snob).

     So, the avenger left the line and went to the restroom, where he used his super powers to make himself invisible and weightless, then transported himself to an area right above the baristas, and spent the remainder of the afternoon meting out justice on the insolent, the obnoxious, and the pretentious by changing their sugar to salt, milk to urine, decaf to caf, and whip cream to hemorrhoid cream.

     Later that night in the avenger's secret lair, the avenger stood beneath a skylight, gazed into the full Moon, replayed the events at the coffee shop, and concluded, "Sometimes justice leaves a bad taste in your mouth."

     The End

 

About

Don't we all long to be this costumed avenger? (At least once in our lives.)

This work is part of the Leftover Candy collection, which is a set of works inspired by the 2011 Halloween season.

© Copyright 2011 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

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