Sun as though the moon

Lone sliver of light dances

A palette in greys. 

Jaya Avendel is a micro-poetess and word witch from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, passionate about life where it intersects with writing and the dreamscapes lost in between. With writing published widely online and in print anthologies detailing everything from women’s empowerment to climate change, she writes at www.ninchronicles.com.

Selected by the editor as a featured submission, November 2022

Stars tumble silver

Orchestrated music woos

My perfume silk heart.

Jaya Avendel is a micro-poetess and word witch from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, passionate about life where it intersects with writing and the dreamscapes lost in between. With writing published widely online and in print anthologies detailing everything from women’s empowerment to climate change, she writes at www.ninchronicles.com.

First day of flurries

Wood smoke and citrus make up

Bronze winter whiskey.

Jaya Avendel is a word witch from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, writing family into fantasy through poetry and prose. Her work has been published here at Whispers and Echoes, Visual Verse, and Spillwords Press, among others. She writes further at ninchronicles.com

Summer wine chilled in snow

Dried flowers and beeswax candles

Moonlight in your cups.

Jaya Avendel is a word witch from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, writing family into fantasy through poetry and prose. Her work has been published here at Whispers and Echoes, Visual Verse, and Spillwords Press, among others. She writes further at ninchronicles.com

December is made

Of sunshine and ice cream cones

Snowflakes you dream of.

Jaya Avendel is a word witch from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, writing family into fantasy through poetry and prose. Her work has been published here at Whispers and Echoes, Visual Verse, and Spillwords Press, among others. She writes further at ninchronicles.com