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On Being a Tree
That little bird is not a bird, but a fully grown woman, who often sat quietly dreaming of whatever she might become. Remembers a time in past when she called herself “a sister to trees, and a maker of stones.” … Continue reading
Posted in On Being a Tree
Tagged branches, different, firm, past, reflection, roots, stones, tree, Truth
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In Present Moments
For The Sunday Whirl – Whirl #323 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ and Poets United: Poetry Pantry #376 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ In Present Moments No longer limber enough to walk shoreline. Sigh at my inability to toss a pebble into cold morning mist, or hear the … Continue reading
Posted in In Present Moments
Tagged aging, no longer limber, past, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, present moments, sky as mirror, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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April PAD Challenge: Day 26
Choices There are those who, in a surreal sort of manner, would postulate that if one should ever come face to face with self, those two selves would instantly disappear, become forever non-existent, negating past, present, and all future possibilities. … Continue reading
Tremulous
For The Sunday Whirligig: Whirligig #212 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ tremulous, customs, wander, holds, separate, love, forgotten, traditional, architecture, woman, city, remember Tremulous Woman alone, standing between two separate architectures. Doric columns of past, remembered loves held in cardboard boxes stacked shoulder-high in … Continue reading
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Tagged black ink, definitions, doric columns, moving, past, present moments, sunlight and shadow, The Sunday Whirligig, tremulous, wordle
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Resistance
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #58 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Resistance Realized past might become burnished barnacles adhering to hull of existence, refusing to be scraped away. Constant burring blur of flinty tongue drenched in familiar vitriol, brittle squeal of thick stiff chalk … Continue reading
What Used To Be
For Sunday Whirl: Wordle #25 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ What Used To Be In bright morning sunlight, rambunctious swallows swoop, seemingly waltz above ballroom-sized pond. In distance, a bell tolls, rolling over fallow garden that now only grows obsolete tractor and automobile parts. Lone … Continue reading
Posted in What Used To Be
Tagged crow, doorway, foreclosure, past, pond, Sunday Whirl, swallows, word puzzle, wordle
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The String
The String You don’t remember and I can’t forget. First time we met invisible string unraveled between us tying us one to another. They came to tell me you were gone, disappeared leaving only hollow space, empty place where … Continue reading
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Tagged connections, future, grief, invisible string, memories, past, poem, Poetry
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Soul's Music 