Dream Lover as if in a dream sliding off a silver moonbeam you come and lay down by my side – you touch my bare shoulder, wash my back with…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Drama
Drama In our small world we create drama to others – curiosity to the world – unnoticed.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
NIghtmare
Moonlight trembles in silvered pools on the grass, and we are dancing. I didn’t know you could waltz, you murmur; I didn’t know either. It is a slow melody, and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Memories of Home
My memory of home sweeps like the trade winds past clothes lines –billowing frayed bedsheets, jiggling pinned cotton underwear, knee-high socks and plastic zip lock bags turned inside out– flowing…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Madison Sleepwalk
I’m holding a candle. When I open the door, although there’s no breeze, it begins to flutter, casting odd shadows on the wall as I descend the stairs to the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
She Spoke First
She spoke first. Actually, he was relieved. The silence between them had been long and awkward. He noted the soft murmuring of voices from neighboring tables, the occasional clink of…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Wanda Hu
So what you going get for your girlfriend? Valentine Day l’dat? –I no mo girlfriend, Uncle. No mo? Bettah get one before you get too old like me. –You had…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Host with a G
My ironwood tree is a ghost. My habit of calling it MY tree has made it the ghost of an idea I had nearly twenty years ago when I planted…
Bamboo Shoots offshoot
Rules for the September Year of the Pig writing contest : )
Rules? There are no stinking rules. Oh, wait — Every Monday through Friday, a word of the day will appears under the BLOGS tab at the top of the page,…
Bamboo Shoots awards
August writing contest winners!
Congratulations to DoreenB, Darrell, and Jim Harstad. You’ve won the much coveted monthly prize of 10 Bamboo Bucks. You now what to do with them, right? Just let Joy know…