A clean page
A fresh start
That is the promise.
Did you decide it was time
to leave?
Or did you depend on your heart to make that choice?
Were you in over your head –
unable to see the silver lining?
Or was there nothing
but a black void ready to suck you into a chasm of hopelessness?
I like to think you Continue reading
Alice Wetherby-Pimms’ teas were famous for drawing an eclectic crowd. Every Wednesday at precisely 2:55 p.m. the area before her gate would be swamped by a mob of the most unlikely bedfellows – dashing princes and their chamber pot removers, knights and their nemeses, good-humored gnomes and curmudgeonly trolls, pirates and bankers’ sons, just to name a few.
At three o’clock sharp the five-year-old would sashay from her forest bound playhouse and flip the latch, a signal to the swarm that two gold rimmed bone china cups had been filled to the brim with the Darjeeling that had been created just for her in the year of her birth.
Dressed in a sky blue smock and cloud white apron tied in a tidy bow at the back of her water melon sized waist, the barefoot child would peruse the now orderly queue snaking along the trail. In choosing who would be blessed by her company, it was not uncommon for Alice to toy with the crowd, first pointing to one, shaking her head, then settling upon another.
In moments like this, Grandpapa Pimms, Continue reading
She weeps. She cries. She howls.
She sighs at man’s inability to use his knowledge wisely.
Sermerssuaq
The Big Ice
Greenland’s ice cap.
Tropical blue melt-water lakes
the size of small countries
rest upon Mother Earth’s head.
Creaking from their weight, Continue reading
No. The commas are in the right place. I’m here. Alone. Now. And this is a tense moment. While I’m staring down at the narrow, dirt trail and maneuvering a mine field of rocks, roots, stone outcroppings,
AND an occasional hilltop inhabitant catching a few rays
I’m thinking of Continue reading
It’s a black and white day – fitting for a journey to the past
where yesterday easily blurrs with today
where peering through dilapidated windows
throws a muddied light Continue reading
When this very second is no longer the future and becomes the past in less time than it takes to type this sentence, living in the moment almost seems easy, but is it? If I just plug along and operate on auto pilot, it is. When I stop, step back, and breathe I am able to appreciate and acknowledge the ephemeral beauty, as well as chaos, that I am an integral part of and might otherwise miss…
Mahalo Io,
for this magnificent morning
What do you think of when you see a wall of post office boxes?
I wonder about the recipients – who they are, what kind of mail they get besides bills, catalogs, and birthday cards…
Dear Ice Berg,
How many more times must the sun set before you fill a glass from my kitchen faucet? Continue reading
WHO’S THERE?
The folks at Daily Press – and man do they have a fun way of inspiring awareness with their weekly photo challenge.
When I set out this week with the intention of recognizing the color orange, the fog lifted and all sorts of things suddenly popped from the landscape.
Knock! Knock!
Who’s there?
ORANGE
When my writers’ group, which I still fondly refer to as Seven Chicks On A Sunday Afternoon, decided that we needed a name, the Write Now Salon was born. The WriNoS (wait till they hear that one) gather once a month and party free write to champagne prompts prepared by our group’s facilitator the beautiful and talented Laurie Lessen Reiche – painter, poet, photographer.
As anyone who has done a free write knows, some strange *$%&# gets put down on paper when you hand your muse a pen and set her loose for five minutes, especially when your favorite body part is the subject and the jump-off line is written in bold print:
In celebration of my bellybutton, I must tell you first about my toes. Continue reading
Raven clings to the towering worn-out
pine like a shining star still snagged
on last December's holiday tree.
But
does he truly cling?
Perhaps it's simpler -
more effortless.
Perhaps he's merely perched,
perusing his neighbors welcoming
their day.
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