By Charles Robert Lindholm
The Paint Has Peeled
On Weathered Walls
Baked By The Midday Sun
Aged By Nature’s Elements
It’s Usefulness Is Done Continue reading
By Charles Robert Lindholm
The Paint Has Peeled
On Weathered Walls
Baked By The Midday Sun
Aged By Nature’s Elements
It’s Usefulness Is Done Continue reading
By Charles Robert Lindholm
If you get left in the woods
don’t worry, be calm
someone else will come along
don’t chase after
the one who left you
First Responders say, “Stay Put”
and they are the experts
when it comes to
the left and abandoned Continue reading
By Charles Robert Lindholm
‘tis sad that minds are closed so tight
like iron gates in prison walls
locked within their inner cell
with covered ears
and hidden fears Continue reading
Please come and enjoy – ONE AT A TIME
Amidst peals of laughter
Our layers fell off
One smile at a time
Amidst love typos unintended
Our butterflies fluttered
One wing at a time
Amidst hurried I love yous
Our story ended
One goodbye at a time
©Nandita Manan Yata.
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Wallflowers blossom Continue reading
Please Come and enjoy the heartfelt piece – FINDING MY WAY
“We were perfect.
Because we were together.”
I think I’m lost without you. The way you used to guide us, like you knew exactly where we needed to be and where we were going. It was perfect. We were perfect. Never a wrong turn, never a place I didn’t want to be. Because we were together. And without you, everything is dark, the roads are twisting and turning, and hope is running out the more life knocks me down.
Yes, I miss you. But I can find my way on my own.
We all experience pain. Heartbreak. Loss. It hurts. And sometimes that pain is unbearable. Just because you can handle your pain better than someone else, it doesn’t mean that person is weak or less of a person. It doesn’t mean the way they feel their pain is any less valid. Accept that people feel and sometimes they can…
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That means you should be doing 1 of 5 things: brainstorming a new story, writing/drafting, editing, researching publishing houses (or self-publishing methods), sending our query letters or submissions.
One of my favorite creative writers, Derek Updegraff once said:
Keep writing. You are a writer, not a submitter. Once you’ve written pieces and submitted them for publication, forget about them and start writing something new. You haven’t produced your best work yet. When you finish a new piece of writing, admire it, take joy in it, and then submit it and move on and write something better.
Being an author does not mean being famous or going to book signings every other week (although that could be super fun). Being an author means never giving up and never stopping.
In my own experience…
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By Charles Robert Lindholm
I Never Knew
That I Was
Tickling The Wire
But It Seems I Did Continue reading