Gabriel Huizenga

Joined November 2022

127 stories

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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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Against A Navy Sky. Honorable Mention in Lantern Light Challenge.
Place me again in the backseat, which lilted like a song; Through squinted lashes, nothing, those nights, was wrong. Face me, nine or ten, towards a blinking stoplight, near,
By Gabriel Huizenga6 months ago in Poets
Such are the Blue Climes. Winner in The Sonnet of Shadows Challenge.
Poetry speak of the wind in the trees And sings on of earth's sublime, steady breath, And bells in the soul a-tolled by that breeze -
By Gabriel Huizenga6 months ago in Poets
a kind of sowing time
all life's an autumn seeds and seconds fall, dying for hope of harvest
By Gabriel Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
Farther Along
as the last red leaves, these evil days shall away, a weak'ning shadow
By Gabriel Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
October Again
Chill air and woodsmoke Drift o'er deepening brown earth: Breathe October in.
By Gabriel Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
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 Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
Where Drops the Road
No doubt they shall say, each one had their reasons; A gamble shall determine who is placed in high regard. History, self-satisfied, will determine cause and error,
By Gabriel Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
Beyond the Lines. Top Story - September 2025.
There is this line I trace to work each morn, tire-and-tear-streaked, by rubber souls, well-worn - This dotted line of trafficked cars and minds.
By Gabriel Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
An Unlikely Herald
Caught at the crossroads of one thousand anxious thought streams - a silent fly alighting on a stack of crayon boxes set aglow by tired, shadow-streaked bands
By Gabriel Huizenga7 months ago in Poets
This Particular Forever. Top Story - June 2025.
Perhaps the moments and years in which you never feel fully present Are in fact the moments and years which you never fully leave -
By Gabriel Huizenga10 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 Huizenga10 months ago in Fiction
Countless Brilliances
Voice, in this library, is given to oft-hushed corners of the wandering mind; Orchestral, in bright day and silent dark, is the swell of wit and profundity;
By Gabriel Huizenga11 months ago in Poets