When Fiction Meets Life: A Love Story in Poetry and Short Fiction

 

When Fiction Meets Life

I like to believe that writers of Fiction write some of their stories by incorporating things they see, hear, read, or are told by others in their work. They also make up a vast amount of what ends up in the story. I am fascinated by how they blend together.

The following are all based on real events that happened this month. Some prior to the picture and others after the picture. Together this blending of fact and fiction paints a picture. 

Enjoy!

Life Will Be Just Fine

February 9, 2025

There are days when darkness comes

Idle moments lacking fun

Temporary thoughts crowd my mind

Covering my sight by design

There are times when I‘m afraid

Times when life isn’t what heaven made

Times when directions are so messed up

Up is down and down is just enough

There are days when you simply smile

There my heart goes

There my love grows

As you wait patiently for me

To be what I have to be

In the spring leaves begin to grow

Reaching for the sun just to show

Renewal happens just in time

Blowing the clouds from this bind

Knowledge being so refined

Life will be just fine

At last 

Life will be just fine

Two Hearts Move As One

I wrote a story

But it couldn’t compare to you

I wrote a poem

It didn’t capture all that you do

I wrote of life

But yours is bigger than my words

I wrote of love

Trying to capture all that is unheard

We’ve lived a life

Just for you and me

We’ve travelled far

Examined all that we could see

We’ve grown and changed

Had our lives rearranged

Entangled and exchanged

And now it’s time

To move on to the next stage

To live a life more engaged

Write a new page 

Enter a new age

Will you join me

As we strengthen our love?

Where two hearts move as one.

Your Love Is A Miracle

Your love is a miracle

Seeing 

What cannot be seen

Trusting 

What cannot be trusted

Giving 

When others do not receive

Believing 

When others do not believe

Quietly calm

It reflects 

Basic principles

Of life

Defining you

In terms of 

True humanity

While you employ

Your love

Steadily 

Gracefully

Graciously

Ever present

To those

Who enter 

Your world

Your love is miracle

Vows

February 11, 2025

Prompt by: THE FICTION DEALER: Microdosing Fiction - 100mg of VOWS

Photo by:Eduraw Pro

“I have to make new vows after 10 years of living together?”

“The general idea is when you get married you say vows.” she paused. “What vows did you make 10 years ago?”

He gave her a gigantic smile. “I vowed that I would treat you with respect. That I would give our relationship everything I had to give. That I would listen and consider your thoughts and feelings and not take you for granted. That I would encourage you and support you and do everything I could to make you happy.”

“I think you’ve got it covered,” she smiled.

That’s What Love Is

February 13, 2025

You’ve captured my life

You've captured my soul

You’ve given me love

You’ve shared what you know

I have given you everything

Because that’s what love is

We have shared our paths

We have walked all the way

We’ve talked of many things

We’ve share what we know

Love has been everything

Because that’s what love is

We have given our love

We shared as we’ve grown

We’ve built a good life

We’ve built a good home

We have made it everything

We ever would have wanted

She Said Yes

February 16, 2025

Prompt by: THE FICTION DEALER: The Batch of Micro-Fiction #39 : WAITING in 70 words!

Photo by: Elegant Images

She’d been waiting for 10 years with a resolve that poker players would envy. 

For better. For Worse. In sickness. And in health.

So much in life. Together they forged a life, a journey, based on mutual respect. A learning curve that moved mountains.

She felt an incredibly deep love. 

She secretly hoped his deep love would bend a knee.

Until one day he saw the light

She said YES.

With Some Excitement

February 15, 2025

“Yes!” she yelled at the top of her voice with her left hand rising again and again with each yes. She progressed to a quick dance around the room, smiling a beatific smile, all the while gazing at her left hand where the new diamond ring sat luminously. The tears of joy rolled down her cheeks in perfect unison before dropping away. Her gaze turned from the ring to another set of eyes.

“I gather you are happy about getting engaged,” asked a delighted voice.

“More than you will ever know,” she said as she folded herself into his arms.