This post is my first attempt at Five-Minute Friday, hosted by Lisa Jo Baker. The rules: write for five minutes in response to the prompt (in today’s case, the word fall) without editing, rewriting, revising.
And, well, my first time out, I cheated: I did a tiny bit of rewriting, changing some pronouns and the order of a line. But I think that’s okay?
Special thanks to Kris Camealy who introduced me to this challenge. Here goes.
Fall
Fall in love.
Fall from grace.
Fall off a cliff.
Fall of the year when the leaves turn gold and scarlet and saffron.
Fall of rain in the forest.
Fall of life when your body weakens, ages, but you’re still vibrant and alive.
Fall of tears on your face.
Fall of leaves from the plum trees in your backyard.
Fall of plums, rotting in the grass.
Fall of your child running, tripping, skinning her knee on the sidewalk.
Fall of your baby’s feet as he toddles to the kitchen to hug his dad.
Fall of water in the shower, soaking, restoring, as you scrub face, body, hair.
Fall of faith when the voices of doubt scream and it’s hard hard hard to believe.
Fall on your knees in prayer, pain, praise, agony, joy.
Fall into grace.
Fall in love.
Hi Kimberlee~This is my first time posting at Five Minute Friday as well! And I did cheat a little, too, with some editing. I forgot to put an introduction on my post so I will be heading back to do that so people know what I am talking about.
I love how you used the word, “Fall.” It’s a word we use in simple conversation everyday and you captured that. But when you put each phrase on a line of its own, the words carried such meaning and emotion.
Loved it.
Blessings,
Janis
Janis, I’m so happy to have somebody to be a newbie with 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and for your kind words about my little piece here; it was fun to just.write. Except when I journal, I just don’t do that, and it was fun to see where stream-of-consciousness took me.
Love this, Kimberlee – I’ve got to get back into this meme. I did it every week for the first year I blogged after I retired and I just loved it. And I did a lot of list-making, too. It was fun. And this is terrific. Thanks.
Diana, how have I lived without you these past ten weeks? I don’t know! You have the gift of encouragement–or at least of encouraging me… though I’ve heard a little birdie or two whisper that you encourage their shrinking violet writer hearts as well. Thank you for faithfully reading my words and faithfully encouraging me to keep writing them.
This is so fun. I am thrilled that you joined us this week. I really love this writing meme, and look forward to it weekly. It’s really good exercise! 😉