Category Archives: Original Writing

From Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/intellichick/3704699148/

I hope love surrounds you like the sky – every day. -cct

Heart in the sky,
Skywritten as if to fall,
Never falls, but fades…
As smoke against the wind.

Is the human heart like this script -
Here and gone
But in a moment,
Like a heartbeat
Rise and fall?

Love a second,
Or forever,
Can it be box-limited
Into a day?
Captured,
Like a Valentine,
Wrapped and presented?

Perhaps hearts do not fade,
But instead
Break free into the air,
So that Love becomes the sky,
When even clear can emerge possibilities
Where even gray gives way to the sun.

To Bobby Who Lives On
By Charity C. Tran

I see you now in headlines
“L.A. School Official”
but when you shift from their
front page to archive
you’ll still be in our headlines
etched in the articles of our lives

you were writing
your dissertation
too many chapters left
of your own to write
of your life to compose

but before your pen
left your hand
its ink had left its mark
composing symphony
in the articles of our lives

you persevered the odds
determined
that others could do the same
you did so with laughter
achieving a quiet kind of fame

Mused - Winter 2009 Issue

Today I celebrate not only the Winter Solstice, but the first publication of my poetry.

In the Winter 2009 release of Mused (BellaOnline Literary Review), I have two poems that unintentionally have a focus on two different incidents of the holding of hands:

Hope & 7th:  A poem about helping a little boy climb up stairs at 7th/Metro Station in Los Angeles.

Close Proximity:  A poem about the moment when someone holds your hand unexpectedly.

Both are warm and fuzzy poems that hopefully are befitting of the holiday season even though they don’t directly speak to the holiday season.

I was an Honorable Mention in this contest!

Yesterday I got an email from Glimmer Train that I received an Honorable Mention designation in their Very Short Fiction Contest.  See my name in PDF!  While this isn’t as life changing as Michelle Woo’s recent news and it doesn’t mean I get published, it surely is bragging rights.  I am told that to get this designation, I had to be in the top 5% of over a thousand entries.

Today is the Autumnal Equinox which just so happens to be the day that Mused – BellaOnline’s Literary Review just released its newest issue…which includes a non-fiction story by me.

Link to Fall 2009 Issue

Direct Link to My Story

You might note that my story title has a “2″. While this story is a stand alone piece, it does follow the theme of finding the meaning of “independent” that began in my previous publication with Mused in Spring 2008 – the original Miss Independent.