Some Descriptive Prose...

Can't remember when this was written...maybe in '01. I'm actually the 'she' in the prose, recording what I observed one evening in a third person narrative. I was feeling a little sad and detached that day.

Looking out of her window into the evening sky, a cool breeze greeted her and she saw that the huge, voluminous, puffy clouds in the sky were lined around the bottom edge with reddish pink. She wondered why, and remembered the time she saw a red moon. She thought that if her arm was long enough she could reach out and touch those clouds, they looked so near. She watched as the wind, like a loving mother, gently led the pink-red clouds away.

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Written on the same day?

She heard the sound of happy children from her window, even though she was eight floors above the ground. She looked down, saw laughing, clapping children. How carefree they are, she thought. Then she looked up at the night sky and was pleasantly surprised. The black night sky was dotted here and there with stars, like diamonds on velvet. She didn't think she hazd ever seen so many stars in the Singapore night sky before. It prompted her to sing, "I can feel the magic in the air......" and hum the rest of the line which she had forgotten the words for. It was incredible that this starlight was coming to her from thousands, millions, maybe even billions and more, of light years away.

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I never had a dark red carpet...so I guess this was partly imagination. Did I really cry? I can't remember. But I like the comparison of teardrops to stars. =)

She stared out through the window into the velvety black sky. It was a starless night, but a meager sliver of pale moon hung high in the sky. She did not bother to wipe away her tears as they fell; lit by moonlight, twinkling and sparkling like stars, onto the dark red carpet, ghostly black in the dark. It was as if the stars had slipped from the frictionless velvet of the night and had fallen through her window. Stars that made damp dark patches like miniature black holes on the carpet as the fibers absorbed the moisture.