Grandma’s Tears

Chel Owens

The sun-warmed beach felt wet and warm
To tiny feet through after-storm;
A woven bowl within her hands,
A flutt’ring hope within the sands.
Searching, searching patiently;
Seeking out a memory.
A glint! A glare! She shouted, skipped!
She danced in young explorer bliss.
For, bit by shining bit, she found
Crystal shards strewn over ground.
And, ducking leaping dancing low
They came to fill her basket-bowl.
Look, Gram, she told the sunshaft sky;
Laughing, she lofted basket high,
I fin’lly found your present, here;
I fin’lly found your star-shed tears.
Clouding sunset smiles played:
Snug’ling, warming, happy rays.

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Beach-combed for Carrot Ranch‘s writing prompt.

January 24, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about shards. You can write about the pieces, the item they once were, or who picks them up and why. Go where the prompt leads.

Respond by January 29, 2019. Use the comment section below to share, read and be social. You may leave a link, pingback or story in the comments. If you want to be published in the weekly collection, please use the form.  Rules & Guidelines.

31 thoughts on “Grandma’s Tears”

  4. I read this delightful verse first thing this morning and couldn’t resist the prompt word shards.. It was only after I wrote and was preparing to post my response that I saw that the call was for flash fiction.. oh well.. Never having been one to follow rules implicitly, I posted it anyways.. Thanks for the hook up on yet another prompt site…

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      1. Oh, it’s just a few hundred, lol! Seriously, this is my joy — finding willing writers to explore literary art every week 99 words at a time. I find the energy vibrant and insightful and inspiring. *glowing*

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