Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
One Woman's Quest II 
Captures so many childhood moments!
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The Little Sparrows Melody – https://awisewomansjourney.wordpress.com/2019/09/07/the-little-sparrows-melody/
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So beautiful!
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The world remains both miracle and tragedy.
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Not sure if I forgot to link up over here… and by the way, I LOVE that poem you included at the top. Wish that could have been my relationship.
https://sealingwaxnotes.home.blog/2019/09/05/black-and-white-childhood/
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I got you! Isn’t that a good poem. My girls said it reminded them of me with my granddaughters.
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That’s the sweetest part, that your girls would read it and think of you–what a HUGE Blessing!!
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Yes! Thanks.
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Most welcome 🙂
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Here’s mine: https://sealingwaxnotes.home.blog/2019/09/05/black-and-white-childhood/
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So well written!
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Thank you.
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Welcome!
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🙂 ❤
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Sometimes childhood hurts.
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I feel as if I’m revisiting that love as I age – not so active, of course.
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Wow! My brief journey into childhood was eye-opening. odaciuk.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/and-so-it-was-and-more/
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It is interesting to do this – a timeline of the developing self. Love it.
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Thank-you, V.J. The timeline allowed a better perspective. 🙂
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You’re so welcome.
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Hi V.J,
Hope you are doing fine now.
My entry for this week’s prompt:
https://radhikasreflection.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/where-did-we-lose-it/
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Thanks for joining in!
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Eternal question…and how do we get it back?
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So cute!
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I love this poem! Thanks for sharing this V.J.! I look for to this challenge! 😀 ❤
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Yeah!
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