Ancient river curls
like a snake unfurling
in the morning sun.
The fallen angel
kneels in silt and strokes
quilted reflections,
lamenting these
are the only clouds she
will ever touch again
fallacy
illusions she can smear
with ripples to remind herself
it’s just a mirror.
The sky is untouchable now.
She mourns her mortality,
her innocence
in a sense.
She, who used to compose
stories in the stars
with an unwritten alphabet,
letters neither you nor I
have read
like ashes in the bending wind
scattering seeds across
the prairie’s bed.
Weary head bowed,
she folds her bloody
wings like a wilted
autumn leaf.
Her tapestry shall remain
an unfinished piece
of art admired by many
while the artist looks on
with glassy eyes,
the only one
who sees the faults in her
masterpiece.
I'm an award-winning fantasy author, artist, and photographer from La Porte, Indiana. My poetry, short fiction, and memoir works have been featured in various anthologies and journals since 2005, and several of my poems are available in the Indiana Poetry Archives. The first three novels in my Chronicles of Avilésor: War of the Realms series have received awards from Literary Titan.
After some time working as a freelance writer, I was shocked by how many website articles are actually written by paid "ghost writers" but published under the byline of a different author. It was a jolt seeing my articles presented as if they were written by a high-profile CEO or an industry expert with decades of experience. I'll be honest; it felt slimy and dishonest. I had none of the credentials readers assumed the author of the article actually had. Ghost writing is a perfectly legal, astonishingly common practice, and now, AI has entered the playing field to further muddy the waters. It's hard to trust who (or what) actually wrote the content you'll read online these days.
That's not the case here at On The Cobblestone Road. I do not and never will pay a ghost writer, then slap my name on their work as if I'd written it. This website is 100% authentic. No outsourcing. No ghost writing. No AI-generated content. It's just me... as it should be.
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