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Spring sky weeps into overwhelmed puddles Hooded jonquils huddle like drunks at a bar _______Colleen Redman / Poets United
Spring sky weeps into overwhelmed puddles Hooded jonquils huddle like drunks at a bar _______Colleen Redman / Poets United
1. “To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.”- Emily Dickinson. 2. The above is the Victorian way to say what Irish pool player Danny McGoorty said this way: “I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.” 3. Joe recently said ‘Hasta la vista’ […]
– Emily’s tulips / Visit her on Facebook at Carolina Flowers / Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
I asked her if I had to wear cowboy boots when I heard it was a barn wedding. She said I could if I wanted to but I might be the only one. I think we clean up pretty good. There were hugs all around. And a few happy tears. The official grand entrance was […]
Climate changed blooms come a month too soon forsythia flowers died the year Trump won election tampered in his favor by Russians and traitors refugees had no place to go Their numbers grew as glaciers diminished in a tsunami of sorrow while people like me wrote poems while driving in carbon spewing cars We rode […]
1. “He introduced a few new songs. Before playing “My Baby Loves Me,” telling us how the muse had woke him too early, and he didn’t want to get up. “If you don’t take it, I’ll give it to Arlo,” the muse said, and so he got up and wrote a new song. – More from […]
Candles were lit, and sage smoke wafted through the spacious spread of rooms. The altars were decked with ceremonial objects. Drum beats rolled and voices rose in song. A black shawl draped. A gold fabric flowed. Earth, water fire and air, east, south, west and north were called in. A priestess declared, “It has all […]
Had Enough A Brave Heart A Tender Trap A Rough Start Weather Dilemma in March _______These were taken a week ago. It was no bluff. We lost our forsythia and daffodil blooms from the frigid temperatures that followed the light snow. / Our World Tuesday
It was our first time at The Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, and we went for good reason, to see the iconic singer songwriter whose 1970 album that bore his name played regularly on my turntable throughout the ‘70s: Tom Rush. While settling into our seats, we ran into friends from Floyd who also […]
______Shadow Shot Sunday
1. I once had a bumper sticker that said ‘Why be normal?’ and I hung it on my car upside down. 2. Does “The Luck of the Irish” cancel out “Murphy’s Law” (if something can go wrong it will), or is it the other way around? 3. “Do you ever think how the grass feels […]
_____ Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday /Wordless Wednesday