Christina Anne Hawthorne
Personal Links
Monthly Archives: July 2021
The Answers
Time, when it stood still, went nowhere, grew no possibilities. Salvation, it wasn’t to be found in the avoidance she’d crafted with care. Life, it didn’t happen in a vacuum’s darkness while she waited. Answers, they weren’t to be found, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #WritingCommunity, Christina Anne Hawthorne, life, Ontyre Passages, poem, poetry, self-confidence, self-growth, self-help
Leave a comment
The Mirror of Her Fears
The childhood she’d fled wasn’t quite abandoned. In adulthood, it was reflected in dreams, the safety she crafted each day ripped away when she closed her eyes. The peace she cherished was seemingly lost, but upon opening her eyes it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #poetrycommunity, #WritingCommunity, Christina Anne Hawthorne, Ontyre Passages, poem, poetry, self-care, self-help, self-love
Leave a comment
Patience
Her pesky brain, it was playing its tricks, cluttering her mind with thoughts. An inner breeze swept them away, but as was the way, more came. She’d not cling, not shove aside, but instead let them fade… In the stillness … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #WritingCommunity, Christina Anne Hawthorne, inner peace, Meditation, Ontyre Passages, patience, peace, poem, poetry, yoga
Leave a comment
Recognition
On her knees, she found her voice in her fists. “No, no, no, no, no!” She’d not surrender, become a prisoner to the inadequacies they told her she had. Listening no more, she shed they’re invisible prison. It couldn’t hold … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #WritingCommunity, Christina Anne Hawthorne, free will, manipulation, Ontyre Passages, poem, poetry, self-worth
Leave a comment
River of Truth, Bridge of Lies
She closed her eyes, closed her senses. It was too late, too late to un-hear the tension where tension oughtn’t have been. His rigid smile strained to build a bridge, to span the truth with fabrication, her heart wanting to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #WritingCommunity, Christina Anne Hawthorne, Ontyre Passages, poem, poetry, relationships, self-esteem, self-respect, trust
Leave a comment
A Return to Orangey Sky – Life to Setting to Character
Were I to go through my drafted novels and list all the influences it’d require a lifetime. Quite often, I pull from multiple influences in the same paragraph. Just as my characters are composites, so too are my locations. This … Continue reading
Drawn Straight from Her Soul
The plummet, she decided, was a matter of inevitability. The truth of it, personal, and not for the reasons they claimed were true. Her fall was purposeful, having had enough of the material things they demanded she chase, the cost … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #WritingCommunity, awakening, Christina Anne Hawthorne, freedom, Ontyre Passages, poem, poetry, self-esteem, self-truth
1 Comment
When the Night was Still
Ticking clock counting shadows, counting thoughts, counting inspiration. Her mind engaged, traveling beyond elsewhere. Tea steaming in dreamless night, in whispering silence, in thriving solitude. She listened, voices speaking from imagination. Stilled night, crafting reality, crafting lives, crafting a world. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #amwriting, #amwritingfantasy, #writerlife, #WritingCommunity, Christina Anne Hawthorne, Ontyre Passages, poem, poetry, writers, writing
Leave a comment
Christina Anne Hawthorne 