Symbel-wynn Reflections

  • Just a Baby Gard’ner

    Just a Baby Gard’ner

    (Bandersnatcher Picture Prompt #3) (Picture Credits: Christi picking beetles, Lore Pemberton ‘s Garden Scene, National Geographic March 1976) I am a baby gard’nerand I do not know a thing.My mobile isn’t sugar plums,It’s green beans on a string. I’m just a baby gard’ner,but I’d like to learn to crawl.What I thought I knew from childhood, I…

  • “Not For Sale”

    “Not For Sale”

    (Bandersnatcher Picture Prompt #2)  I close the door on the outside world of dozens of hugs, shared memories, and funeral potatoes. I can feel mental exhaustion setting in, but my rest must wait as I turn to prepare the tiny world within these four walls. My task is clear. A date is set for the…

  • Looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Cottage

    Looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Cottage

    (Bandersnatcher Picture Prompt #1) Darkened, muted colors comfort the eye and offer a picture of somber loveliness. Beneath the swaying movement of trees in windy skies—skies which are dim with the suggestion of coming rain or twilight—a quiet cottage sits. We long to step inside, into the simplicity and quaintness of cottage life. We notice a single light in the window, perhaps a candle beside an elderly woman lying…