MediocreMan

Your Face in a Cloud · 18 October 2025

I saw your face in the clouds today
Your beautiful smile was as plain as day.
Then again I see you everywhere
Not just in the clouds hanging in the air.

A face in the crowd walking down the street
A stranger sitting down on a metro seat.
In the sea foam when I’m out on the beach
And in my dreams you’re always just out of reach.

But where I see you oh so clearly
Is in our children that I love so dearly.
I even hear your voice when they all speak
I have to laugh when their voices squeak.

Then they ask me, “Why are you crying Dad?”
“Did Mommy leaving make your heart so sad?”
“Just remember what she said to us,
‘When it is time we’ll all be with Jesus.’”

So I smile when I see their faces each day
Especially when I watch them hard at play.
I watch and know that you’d be proud
And I often cry when I see your face in a cloud.

[Create a poem about a shape you see in the clouds.
DailyPrompt prompt submitted by Hailey]

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Another Featured Writing · 18 October 2025

Photo courtesy of Ryan Lindsey

I got a second piece of writing featured on DailyPrompt.com! Woo hoo!

It is nice when you get a piece of prose or poetry featured on any site let alone a site for writers. So I was excited when I had a my second piece featured on DailyPrompt.com. The biggest reason I am excited is because getting featured means that a fair amount of people have read the piece. In this case, I have had around thirty people read it and liked it so far. Which is pretty cool. (I am not sure that 30 people have read very many of my writings, much less liked them.)

At any rate.

I guess I am just excited that people have liked my writing. So I decided that I would post it here on my blog next week. I was going to post it this week, but I decided that I needed to give a bit of explanation about the piece.

The piece that was featured (Did I mention that it is my second featured piece?) is a fictional poem. I repeat. It is a fictional poem. The reason that I must emphasize this is twofold. One, I have often written poems of grief as part of my grieving process, but this is not one of them. And two, I am not grieving anybody right now.

Well, if that is not enough to entice you to read it, I am not sure that anything would. But now that I have prefaced the poem, I suppose that I ought to let you read it. So I guess I am changing my mind. This week, I will release two blog posts. This one and my poem. (Did I mention that it was featured on DailyPrompt.com?)

Well, that is about all I needed to say to preface the poem. I guess when it comes right down to it, I did not want to get condolences about something that has not happened to me. Which is why I had to explain my poem, Your Face in a Cloud. I hope you enjoy it.

(Did I mention that my poem was featured on DailyPrompt.com? Or that it is my second piece featured there?)

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Inktober 2025 Is Here! · 11 October 2025

Inktober2025 Mustache

Inktober is here! Which means thirty-one days of drawing.

Okay. Full confession here. I started Inktober2025 about a week early. I mean c’mon. If they give the prompts early, I am going to start early. It is just human nature, right? Okay. Maybe not. Many people, including myself, like to procrastinate. Wait until the last possible moment to get things done. That is probably more human nature. But there are some things that I just need to start early. And Inktober is one of them.

If you do not know what Inktober is but you like to draw, you should check it out. It is just a website that has 31 prompts for drawing. And if you are like me, you like drawing prompts (and writing prompts too). There are so many things to draw, but when you get a prompt, you can focus on that one thing for a day. Or however long it takes. I am a simplistic artist. Which just means that I draw simple stuff. I am working to get more sophisticated, but I am still just working on drawing what I see.

Which is an interesting subject in and of itself. You see, apparently we do not always draw what we see. When we draw a person’s eyes, we do not see the shape of the eye or the shadows or the subtle tone changes. Instead, we draw what we think an eye is. We see somebody’s eyes and immediately draw two circles. Simple. Eyes are round, draw circles. But eyes are not circles from different perspectives. In fact, even though eyeballs are round, people do not have round eyes when you consider eyelids, eyelashes, and the surrounding bone structure. Yes, the pupil and iris of an eye are round, but we do not always see them completely. Which means that we ought not just draw two circles when we see eyes.

That single lesson is about all I know about drawing. And I have been working to draw what I see ever since I learned that lesson. I think I have been getting better, but the proof is in the pudding.

At any rate.

Inktober2025 Murky

One of the things that I have decided this Inktober is that I am not going to get rid of my pencil lines. I usually do some basic sketching with pencil before I ink my drawings. I have gotten rid of those pencil lines during past Inktobers, but this year, I am not going to spend my time erasing the pencil lines. Not because I am lazy. Even though I am. No. The reason that I am not going to erase my pencil lines is twofold. One, I want people to see my process. And two (probably the more important reason), I do not want the eraser smudges on my drawings. Oh sure, the pencil marks make the drawings look incomplete or unfinished or something, but that is okay. For like my drawings, I am unfinished. I am a work in progress.

Well, that is about it. If you are so inclined, you can check out my Instagram feed for my Inktober2025 drawings. And yes, I know that this blog post is nearly two weeks late to coincide with the start of Inktober. Ah well. I guess I can start my drawings early, but I cannot plan for my blog posts that much in advance. Still, Inktober2025 is here! Time to get drawing.

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