I'm joining up with a writing group over at Lisa- Jo Baker's called Five-Minute Friday where the idea is to write for five minutes flat on a prompt posted on her blog.
It’s time to silence the inner critic.It’s time to hush the voice that whines on and on about how you’re no good.It’s time to cram out the distractions and excuses and take pen to paper, keyboard to screen and write.This week’s prompt is “Fly”
Start
The butterfly finally emerged from the cocoon after her long
struggle, and gazed about in quiet wonder.
What had changed?
The world was the
same, yet fundamentally different, now capable of inspiring a strange sense of
awe from deep within her. The leaves of her simple bush were still the smooth
green tasty treat of days past but she had lost her overriding desire to
consume them. As insatiable as before, her appetite was now for different
things.
But what?
For the first time she looked upwards and truly saw. The
blue sky and all it promised pairing with a golden sun, beckoning warmth and
enlightenment. A life beyond the next contented mouthful. The whispering wind put
a delicate hand upon her shoulder and lent its voice to her ear, chanting over and over “something
different, something better.”
A dream that never had been before, suddenly was. She felt
the longing in her gut, in her cells, in her mind and believed, believed with
all her heart. The delicate morning light of a freshly born spring day was her last
and her first.
In one fluid movement, she unfurled wings born of faith and
flew.
Stop