Gabriel Huizenga
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Twas for love of words that I first joined this site:
Poetry, especially, and dear short stories too;
For to live one's best is to read, and to write!
So find me in words here, and I'll find you 💙
Thanks for stopping by! :)
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Only So An Hour
Frost's rule comes to pass: beauty, gold, drops by briefly; lives and leaves abide. * * * * * AUTHOR'S NOTE: Thank you so much for reading this haiku! It was written primarily as an homage to the great Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay," a lovely, melancholy, and seasonally reflective poem (which so happens the first poem I ever memorized!). I was so excited when I realized his own last name could function with double, seasonally appropriate meaning in this little piece. Anyhow, thanks again for stopping by - I hope the shifting seasons treat you well, friend!
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Poets
Beginning-Endings Unofficial Challenge WINNERS
Well, this is embarrassing. I promised to announce the winners for this unofficial challenge nearly two full weeks ago - and here we are, winners unnanounced, zero updates from me, and a near total absence from the writing, reading, challenge-submitting, and commenting scenes on Vocal. OUCH.
By Gabriel Huizenga9 months ago in Fiction
Broken Bastions. Runner-Up in Tomorrow’s Utopia Challenge.
A shimmering tongue of green light danced atop the wood grain, refracting off of Emma Brewster's emerald ring. With a dextrous thumb, she twisted the piece of jewelry around the middle finger on which it always resided. A tiny, glowing monitor on the underside of the ring read "42% BTRY." Enough to last out the week. Good.
By Gabriel Huizenga10 months ago in Futurism
"Beginning-Endings" Unofficial Writing Challenge. Top Story - April 2025.
Welp, it's all in title: I am very excited to announce the kicking off of another unofficial challenge! I will be blathering on about the inspiration for this and such for a few paragraphs- so if you just want to get straight to the details of the challenge itself, feel free to skip down to the section in bold. No hard feelings, life can get busy. :)
By Gabriel Huizenga10 months ago in Fiction
An Improvised Instrumental Moment
Once again, I've allowed it to get down to the wire before sharing a musical endeavor for my New Year's resolution on Vocal (which was to create and share one song per month for the duration of 2025; I'm including the link to the original piece which describes this resolution below).
By Gabriel Huizenga11 months ago in Beat
