Lukeman Exercise Part One | Kimberly Bennett

I thought that this exercise was surprisingly difficult. I chose the exercise where you try to have one big long sentence, or rather, no period for an entire page. I found I could only do this at first with a stream of thought. However, as I decided to invoke the power of semicolons, which I can only pray I used correctly, stream of thought wasn't quite enough. So, I came up with something a little bizarre which turned out to be a very lengthy inroduction for a personification of Hope. So, here it is!

Moving through the wind and trees like night on the tails of dusk, I shift into the shadows of your soul and wait for you to see; wait for you to see me standing there like the adventure of a life time, like the mystery that become the storm, like the ever present monumental calling of the wind to the sea; Then, I, moving like the race of days and nights that forgot the agony of tearstained eyes, and dried with those fingers of dawn the salted faces of the lost and friendless, I will take the lead, comforting those in my path as a queen; a silent queen that stalks the day and moves in silence, but causes all who see her to blush in the openness of their souls as, with the all the serenity of the calm before the storm, I make my way into your minds, unforgettable in the ease with which I pierce the masks of your eyes, because I see; I see right through you and the way in which you wish to manipulate your world, but I remain untouched and that is why you choose not to see me; that is also why some day you will have no choice but to open up and see yourself in my eyes, that is why I am unforgettable: I hide in the very nature you try to keep hidden, in your shadows, in your darkness; I am not darkness, but I know it well; I know yours because I am the bit of light that lives there, disguised in my refuse, and when you fall into that darkness and open up your eyes to see me standing there you are saved from it, you can break free, I will guide you to the light on your visionary journey; I am your adventure, I am Hope. Welcome to the other side.

I found this to be a very interesting experience. I think it's very useful for making sure that your sentences are appropriately connected. It was an adventure.