Monday, September 30, 2013

Call For Submissions: Turkeys and More

It's Autumn. The leaves are falling, the air is crisp, the pumpkins are getting ready to take Cinderella to the ball, and many of us are looking forward to that Thanksgiving gutsplosion known as the turkey dinner.

Send us your turkey stories, or Thanksgiving stories, or any kind of writing that can be loosely attenuated to the turkey/Thanksgiving theme.

Email your submission to awcswriterscorner@gmail.com and the AWCS blog turkey will happily share it with our readers.




Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Retreat, by Jamal Ali




This wilderness of tranquility
at Goldeye Lake,
is so soothing,
my mind is at ease.

Evergreens tickle the sky.
The placid lake reflects my mood of complete calm.
Life takes a slow pace here.
This aura of prevailing silence,
is so scintillating
that it revels my psyche.

Healing surroundings,
the fresh air rejuvenates.
I rejoice in the freedom of space and nature.
The innocent chatter of the squirrels,
so full of life,
scampers from place to place
in my midst.

In the early dawn,
an owl summons its mate,
a cry of longing echoing against the foothills.
The log cabins,
are full of splendid coziness
in the dark nights.