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Wildflowers

No, just a grey morning in the Caribbean.

Good day.

Wildflowers

pale lilac bells
with purple throats
swing silent
in the wintery wind
that takes the air
to temperate from tropic;
morning is a smear
of sullen cloud
of muted colours
blended in a melting pot
of green, of grey,
a lone hibiscus
frail and red
just a bloodstain
in the halflight
pretending to be day.




Good morning from windy, stormy and cool Barbados.

RE: CS women and mindfful

And you are one of the ladies that keeps me coming back I value your friendship deeply and look forward to meeting you!

RE: God, fact or fiction -The Sequel.

My position is that there is no question. There is no rugby ball, no game no stadium for me.

Your position is different. Not wrong, not right, just different.

Tut-tut is condescending, not philosophical and is the reason I usually stay out of threads on religion, politics et al.

RE: God, fact or fiction -The Sequel.

God fact or fiction?


One of those unnecessary questions.

If fact, what I think or believe pro or contra will not change the reality.

If fiction, ditto.

If I believe, my faith would make the opinion of others irrelevant so there is no question to be asked.

If I do not believe, the question does not arise.

Morning snapshot

It is so sad! Anyway they are all (5 of them) on my back porch, dry and fed and curled up watching the rain turn the lawn into a lake.

Morning snapshot

Sky has become
a tear filled eye,
the rain a symphony
of hisses seething against leaves,
the roof, the edges of the world.
Clouds are delicate no longer
they flex their shoulders wide
horizon to horizon, all dark
with frowns and temper
waiting to let fly.
Earth sits sullen
under water filled with clutter
from its passage
through the trees
while the feral cats play
hopscotch as they walk
across the lawn
paws shaking in distaste,
tails fluffed, a fur umbrella
becoming sodden in the rain.


Nothing quite like a bunch of cats trying to get to breakfast under adverse weather conditions!

Undoing love

Hey there Trish, haven't been around at the right time to see you for a while.

Are you able to take a break from all your scholarly endeavours this month?

Undoing love

I love the falling,
the fill to overflow
then tumble into chaos
when I lose my heart.
I love the loving
the sudden loss of breath
the stuttered words,
missed heartbeats a flamenco
in my chest; I love the moment
eyes meeting, messages exchanged
and understood, unspoken for the ear
yet full of meaning
for the rest of me
a promise and a shadow,
passion and pain
each pulling out a paintbrush
and their colours to make
a work of art that looks like me
all filled with laughter,
joy and rage sharing the tears
when right or wrong
fills my perception
of what should be, must be
is the only way to be,
I do not love the moments
when I shatter
on the hardness
of my heart
imposing order on the chaos,
blind to the wonder
of the falling that I love.



Good morning.

I remember

When i was in NY I was fine in winter but I think the Caribbean does something to the blood that makes you more sensitive to temperature.

I was laughing this morning when I realised I felt cold!

I remember

Well, we are at 26.9 C with no breeze..so steamy!

I remember

Hi there! It is definitely warm here although this morning I was shivering...it got down to 60F

I remember

Glad you enjoyed it!

How's the weather? We give international temperatures in our weather forecast - as a tourist destination people like to know what they are going home to- and it seems pretty cold most place!

I remember

Grazie molto ( long time since I used any Italian so...)

I remember

Thank you for reading and commenting. Glad you liked it.

I remember

No, actually.

I remember

I remember loving you
the food I could not eat
breath trapped with words
inside my soul, my throat
all closed with waiting for
the wonder of your eyes
to see my timid smile.
I remember hating you
the tears that burned
like acid on my cheeks
each salty path a death blow
to forever in your arms
worse than the lies
that carved my heart.
I remember missing you
the parting incomplete
yet still so final in the
shadows that it cast
across the long days
of my future all alone
with you not there
I remember turning back
to look, then turning forward,
putting you and love inside
some secret chamber
in my heart all woven shut
with maybes in the pattern
as I remembered loving you.



Good evening.

Singing

And shall we weave our magic here?
Bespell with words all painting pictures,
carving gentle bas relief against the sky
with cloud trail telling secrets?
Our souls are full,
would speak to fill the world
with words uncluttered
by the hearts and flowers
stopping up our mouths
would sing the harmony of love
so pure, so stripped
down to the bone
it shines with eldritch fire,
could start a conflagration
right across the world,
touched to the fuse of hope
for peace if we could let our souls
sing for a minute...

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

This is going to be an epic.

I am so excited...can't even write a poem!

RE: patterns of harmony

Good one class. The light weaves through it beautifully.

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Actually I am off too...just realised I am working daytime tomorrow not midnight! Sleep now, not later.

Night Rick, night Robert. Be well

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Shining dreams to you Lady K.

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Sounds like a plan.

I will practice my single eyebrow Spock raise...

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Don't worry...I always have about 8 with me. Sketch pads, notepads, pencils...

I am getting quite excited about this.

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Are you kidding? We will talk all night about gardens and poetry and artists...

I don't talk much either...I write ....

I am so looking forward to meeting you guys!

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

All us shy ones can sit very quietly and not talk to each other.

pass notes maybe....

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Wow, do we have to book already? I am not used to planning this far in advance being very much a 'hmm why don't I do this today?' kind of woman.

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

I just have to get clear on where MO is...mapquest time!

RE: USA CS GET-TOGETHER, St Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2008

Hi Lady K, I am planning on being there... we could share.

RE: The soul is also

Thank you.