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Articles, Poetry, U-turns, Writing
Tag Archives: transformation
Bedtime on the Farm
two brothers- one with a normal reluctance for bedtime- one who drags feet slowly over the bare wooden floors after the usual bedtime flap of changing, washing, brushing beds wait both are cold with warm heavy covers the younger … Continue reading
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Tagged Imagination, Life Stages, Observation, photography, Poetry, transformation
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Stop Two-Growing
My husband announced he’s a peony. He no longer feels like himself as his petals open more and more. Ever more layers appear. Just about the time he thinks he’ll see the pattern of his center more petals appear. His … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Art, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged growth, Life Stages, photography, Poetry, romance, transformation
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Stop One – Belonging
Belonging While I get a massage he walks to Hana Bay. When I’m done, he leads me to a young plumeria tree. There is a table and two chaise lounges. He opens his beach bag. Out comes Thai tea … Continue reading
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Tagged growth, Life Stages, nature, Poetry, romance, transformation, Writing Poetry
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Explorers
Explorers We explore marriage. Trace the outline of couple. Can we map it? Define it’s parameters? List it’s concepts? As beginners, we had three rules, three necessities. Number one, breathing. Number two, comfort. Number three, we can’t remember. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Life Stages, marriage, Observation, Poetry, romance, transformation
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Exploring History
Fort Atkinson, Fort Calhoun, NE Prairie grass still thrives here. Mown, its rolls dot the long expanse of green that leads the visitor to the fort. Long plank walks and ax hewn walls travel away from the eye until … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged images, nature, Observation, photography, Poetry, transformation
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By Way of Explanation – CRAO*
moving in moving out moving in staying Noir moved in first. Never unpacked but liked the left front window and did hang his favorite drapery- black with ruffly edges. He didn’t like the view or the house. Left after just … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, U-Turns, Uncategorized
Tagged accidents, depth perception, eye sight, Imagination, Life Stages, photography, Poetry, stroke, transformation
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Complexity of Completeness
Strangeness emanates, wafts like the tropical breeze. It makes me wonder if being content and not endlessly seeking some wisp of a life caught on an unreachable cloud will make me bereft of the drive to create. Will I … Continue reading
U-Turns-A New Life
The shovar translucent in the setting sun calls us in celebration. The shovar blast forms into a living being that coils into the air. It finds the ocean and pounds in the waves. The trees whistle with the wind of … Continue reading
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Tagged growth, Life Stages, romance, transformation
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Pictures as Poem Part II- Two Combined into One
The Dark The Light Two Become One Botanical Space Spiral in to the center of a flower a universe of stamen carpel corolla orbits the stalk male seeks female the calyx cradles it all petals expand with … Continue reading
An Epiphany
It took me over 20 years to write about my two miscarriages. The poem is below. It is an example of how imagination can transform and reframe an experience. Recently, these moments in my life re-surfaced when a young woman … Continue reading
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Tagged growth, Imagination, Life Stages, miscarriage, Poetry, pregnancy, transformation
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