Black Ink and Parchment

Anything can feel like poetry if you let it. Take it all in and see the beauty in the simplest moments of your life. Let it wash over you and inspire you to appreciate everything in what seems to be nothing.

1. A lit candle’s smoke swirling in the moonlight
2. Fog pouring off the tops of sugarcane in September
3. My grandmother’s faded rocking chair swaying in the wind
4. Forgotten, dried-out roses in a crystal vase
5. Handwritten letters sealed with wax sitting in a wooden box
6. The rumble of distant thunder at sunset
7. Spanish moss swaying
8. Ink-stained paper full of secrets and forgotten promises
9. Initials found carved into an old wooden desk
10. A shadow’s disappearance at noon
11. The first whiff of magnolias blooming in May
12. Church bells ringing
13. A torn photograph
14. The silence after a door slams
15. Curtains letting in a sliver of light in a dark room
16. A bookmark in a thick book
17. Hot bread and melting butter
18. A rusted over Locket
19. An old grandfather clock ticking
20. A hot slide reflecting the sun
21. Being wrapped up in old quilts
22. Tripping over a crawfish house on the way home
23. Watching the streetlights appear one by one
24. An old ring sliding onto a new finger
25. A tear splashing onto parchment

What does your life’s poetry look and sound like?