WLC – Week 5 & Poetry Thursday Returns

Sooooo after 3 days of eating, eating, eating – when I wasn’t necessarily hungry but was in full blown snack mode – I lost .6 lbs   I will gladly take that! I was so sure that I was up like 5 lbs, I dreaded stepping on the scale last night. Phew. The ludicrous amount of [...]

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Lucky Me!

This arrived for me in the mail today!
I won a contest at Jessalu’s blog and this was the generous prize package I received. My very first skein of Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn in a fabulous purple, blue and red colourway – hmmm all the colours of royalty… Some truly yummy treats and a great [...]

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Poetry Thursday

my spring is just this:a single bamboo shoota willow branchIssa

It may be hard to tell in this picture but it is raining.
It has been raining for 3 days and the ground is quite marshy.
Kira has a thing about sitting on the wet ground.
She won’t. She hovers – as you can see.
(I didn’t want you to [...]

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Poetry Thursday Etc.

Tension? What tension? We are the best of friends. We’re just waiting to eat.

Mmmmm. My soap arrived in the mail today. It smells so heavenly! It is the Earth Spirit soap from Good Soapworks of Athens. I cannot wait to open this tomorrow morning.

This is what I see while I am blogging. She is always [...]

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Speaking of Bono…

Step out of the driving rain, maybeRun from the darkness in the nightSweet the sinBitter taste in my mouthI see seven towersBut I only see one way out
You got to cry without weepingTalk without speakingScream without raising your voice
You know I took the poisonFrom the poison streamThen I floated out of here
She runs through the [...]

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Poetry Thursday

I am taking a risk here – part of the whole reason I blog, I guess, since I am a reticent person. This is a poem I wrote some years ago.

Averted

begging yesand breathing no
words filter backmisshapenshrinking spiraling dreadfluttering withina lightless webwave them awaybatting carelesslythey contract :.: flattenblink once and disappear

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The Signs are Everywhere

SPRING
Sound the flute!Now it’s mute!Birds delight,Day and night,Nightingale,In the dale,Lark in sky, -Merrily,Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year.
Little boy,Full of joy;Little girl,Sweet and small;Cock does crow,So do you;Merry voice,Infant noise;Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year.
Little lamb,Here I am;Come and lickMy white neck;Let me pullYour soft wool;Let me kissYour soft face;Merrily, merrily we welcome [...]

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Poetry Thursday

Jabberwocky‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!”He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought – So rested he by [...]

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Poetry Thursday

The Lady of Shalott

On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road run by
To many-tower’d Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of [...]

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Again? Poetry Friday

it is at moments after i have dreamed it is at moments after i have dreamedof the rare entertainment of your eyes,when (being fool to fancy) i have deemed
with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;at moments when the glassy darkness holds
the genuine apparition of your smile(it was through tears always)and silence mouldssuch strangeness as [...]

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