Oh beauty beauty is our cry,
Perfection abounds in this land.
Absolute ecstasy doth greet us,
At the beginning,
And when evening bends.
Suns set,
All red and aglow
Promising a sailor’s delight.
We’ll be up at the crack of dawn,
Sailing all day and all night.
And so blooms the stillness of the night
Engaging and inviting it is,
Providing moon, stars, and deep sleep,
As the day flies from beginning to end.
“Ring ring” crows the clock
Up, dressed and out the door,
Back to work
Back to reality,
Traffic, clients and more …
But in my dreams,
I’ll always be,
Far off in that wonderful land
With all that’s fine and wonderful and free,
With you my love, I’ll always be.
Paula Hines
This story and the one that follows resulted from a class exercise in character development. Each writer was given a set of characteristics around which to develop a character. It was then suggested a story be written involving everyone’s character.
It was an early spring morning - sunny enough to be hopeful, yet cold enough to be wary of winter’s lingering grip on anything optimistic.