The Indie Exchange #FlashFiveFriday: Woods

It's Friday Flash time again...

#FlashFiveFriday is a weekly flash fiction/flash blogging prompt run by The Indie Exchange.

The rules are very simple if you’d like to take part:

1) Write for no longer than five minutes;
2) No upper or lower word limits;
3) You must write something new;
4) You can prepare your post ahead of time but the 5 minute limit still applies; and
5) If you add your blog post to the weekly linky you must visit five other blogs that week too to show your support.

http://theindieexchange.com/flashfivefriday/

Why not give it a go?

I had three goes, allocating the five minutes to each one.

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Flying through the woods

Robin tweets, searching for food;

Hopes between branches

Into the woods

Under the branches they walk

Arms entwined through autumn leaves

They make a new path, running

In between trees laden down

With promises and a night escape,

Dancing in between glances

A cool breeze pulls them sideways

As if the wind is keen to part them

The lake sparkles as they greet it

Halfway round the endless woods

Offering a silent sanctuary, away

From the bustle of yesterday

Elfin green

Elfin eyes stare in forest glades
Where the green days run deep
Linger long in the summer sun
Warm rays twinkle upon leaves
A rush of cool air soon ruffles 
The rough fingers of twigs

Smell the glistening rain
As it pelts its way through
Trickling into earthy puddles
It twirls and glitters merrily
Birds sing as they ponder
The elfin eyes that stare

#FlashFiveFriday: #2 – Graveyard

#FlashFiveFriday is a weekly flash fiction/flash blogging prompt run by The Indie Exchange.

The rules are very simple if you’d like to take part:

1) Write for no longer than five minutes;
2) No upper or lower word limits;
3) You must write something new;
4) You can prepare your post ahead of time but the 5 minute limit still applies; and
5) If you add your blog post to the weekly linky you must visit five other blogs that week too to show your support.

http://theindieexchange.com/flashfivefriday/

Here's mine...

Graveyard

Between the fields where no one goes

Sits a graveyard, dank and grim

All alone the blades of grass blow

Back and forth in the chilled breeze

Nothing speaks in the distancing

In between the jagged thin stones

Memories lie undisturbed here

At peace, longing no more to breathe

I step a while through these places

Tracing a path that never was

I can feel the echo of my yesterdays

Now I wonder if they feel me too

Does my warm breath tease them?

Can they hear my every step above?

The hour ticks forth into a new day

Past the witching time to my dismay

My hands are cold, my fingers stiff

Worn, my feet are tired of treading

But here I go, round and round

Tracing this never ending circle

This dance of mine will never end

This life of mine I cannot spend

For it is gone, vanished a while

In the distant past it fled 

I cannot find my shadow here

Bereft I no longer have my voice

Between the grave stones I dance

Alone on this empty uneven path.