When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. I made a deliberate reference to "Leaves of Grass."
Knowing I could never achieve a blade of grass as brilliant as he but wanting to feel kinship, I used moss, rather than grass, as my flora.
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. I made a deliberate reference to "Leaves of Grass."
Knowing I could never achieve a blade of grass as brilliant as he but wanting to feel kinship, I used moss, rather than grass, as my flora.
A writer I am by temperament and by trade.
I choose it and it chooses me.
It is painful to pull out the grime from my soul.
It hurts.
Sometimes a lot, sometimes in little winces.
But there is hope.
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However, I do love the forest moss that grows on the north sides of the trees
and on the forest floor where the shade is deep.
And Walt Whitman
Whose poetry blows like a wind
Across vast prairie grasses
As he takes us along on his
Journey
KEO is revealing to us the secret language of her journey
Guess I love to draw them both, too--always have, and of course, green is the color of growth and new beginnnings...appropriate for beginning a new creative project.
Thanks for sharing a new use for the word!
HL
Now, enough commenting. Back to the grinding stone.