Loose Leaf Notes

1. I like that jingle rhymes with Kris Kringle

2. Cha-ching or jingle?

3. Dancing to live music is an essential activity for me.

4. Shall we be released? Any day now?

5. Star of Bethlehem– Later this month, you can witness a rare event in the night sky that has not been seen in almost eight centuries.  the two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will align on Dec. 21 to create what’s sometimes referred to as the “Christmas Star” or the “Star of Bethlehem.” When the planets line up on the day marking the start of the winter solstice, they will appear to form a double planet. It’s a rare event and one that hasn’t been seen since the Middle Ages, according to Forbes.com. But in reality, the planets won’t be close at all. It will just look like that to viewers on Earth.

6. “It doesn’t take that long for “every day felt like a year” to become “a year that felt like a day.” – Line from by an online poet friend, Thotpurge 2020: Outro

7. It was a single delicate bloom/ with pale open petals / like listening ears / or a hopeful heart / surprised / Not like the pink blow-up raft / that I wanted to carry me / gently down the stream / like a baby in a cradle / not left to sink or swim / But rosy like a girl’s cheek / playfully pinched / while writing in her diary / about a boy she wants to like her… Read my latest pome Pink in its entirety HERE.

8. THIS made me laugh.

9. THIS is my current favorite artist. Her Immersed in Wonderland show was supposed to open in NY in March but wasn’t because of Covid.

10. I read this line somewhere recently, “When I was 16, I stopped writing drafts of my suicide note and I started writing poems,” which reminded me that I’m always making playlists for my funeral service (anything by Mark Knoffler).

11. This is an updated bio for THIS poem that appeared in the latest Floyd Moonshine Magazine:  Colleen Redman likes gingerbread more than brownies and documentaries more than biographical movies. When she hits the computer for a second time after breakfast, she likes to shout out “Phase two in which Doris gets her oats!” Her photography, poetry and writings are featured regularly on her blog, looseleafnotes.com.  Her poetry collection Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She writes and photographs for The Floyd Press newspaper and is a regular featured reader at Floyd’s Little River Poetry Festival.

12. Time doesn’t argue / It doesn’t stand still / Slowly it rages / or politely appeases / It saves itself for a rainy day / It ticks and slips
and wakes lucid in dreams / It’s on our side, they say Read Tick Talk in its entirety HERE. 

13. I try to write what I want to read.

__________Thirteen Thursday