Cafe Writing

Option One: Timed Writing

When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

1. Love or Madness, by Melody
2. bodies lay still upon the bed, by Rose
3. Succumb, by Sara
4. Endless Possibilities, by Gautami
5. Special Kind of Love, by Steve
6. Lucidity in Love, by J.C.
7. Love And/Or Madness in Hamlet, by Catherine
8. Rare Phenomenon, by Anu

Option Two: Seven Things

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
~William Shakespeare

1. Seven Things, by Janet
2. Respiration Alterations, by SlyGly
3. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by Medhini
4. Sighing Times Seven, by Becca
5. Seven Things that Make Me Sigh, by Jane

Option Three: Pick Three

Dreaming time has reversed, I watch drowned snow
Appear to lift up from the lake;
Reshaping magnified, each risen flake
Looms in the air, deliberate and slow,
Allowing me to let your picture form and wake
Astonished that you have returned to go
To watch me watch drowned snow lift from the lake.
Dreaming time has reversed—and you,
Your red cheeks radiant against the wind,
Are gliding toward me on the ice into
A frame of glided twilight—I
Again awaken from your being gone to find
Your gloved hands covering your lips’ good-bye
So you can watch me watch uplifted snow
As if your absence now concluded long ago.
– Robert Pack, Snow Rise

1. Progression, by Becca
2. Gilded Conclusion, by Gemma
3. Fractal Arms, by Tiel
4. The Visitors, by Rebecca
5. Unlucky, by Lissa
6. 10 to 10, by Gautami
7. The Merger and Oh!, by sister AE
8. She Died in February, by Lilibeth
9. Astonished, by Carole
10. A Snowy Dream, by Anu
11. A Lesson in Vulnerability, by Sara
12. Caught in the Current, by J.C.
13. The Duke’s Wife, by Catherine
14. What It Is Or Isn’t, by Virginia

Option Four: Can You Picture That
Beverly Lussier – His Entire World

1. I Walk in Your Footprints, by Gemma
2. The Dog, by Greg
3. Achilles, by Rebecca
4. His Entire World, by Paisley
5. Puppy Love Stories, by A~lotus
6. Delilah’s Garden, by J.C.
7. Sliver, by Jimmy

Option Five: Poetry

From December to March, there are for many of
us three gardens:
the garden outdoors,
the garden of pots and bowls in the house,
and the garden of the mind’s eye.
– Katherine S. White

1. Already Beside Me, by Tiel
2. Beating Around the Bush by A~lotus
3. My Winter Gardens, by sister AE
4. God’s Beautiful Rain Body, by Richard
5. Dirty Hands, by Brian
6. Garden of Peace, by Anu

Option Six: Fiction

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
~Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

1. Launched Love, by Little Wing
2. Gourmet Love, by Brian
3. Submerge, by Gautami