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 […]
Beautifully written and I so love that lone plane against the blue sky – No, it isn’t easy.
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Beautifully written, V.J.
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Thank you, Ma’am!
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Most welcome!
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Beautiful post.
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Thank you!
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Welcome, dear.
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How I long for that simplicity! I love the picture of the white plane against the blue sky.
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So hopeful, isn’t it! Thanks Liz.
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Yes, hope in its purest form.
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Beautiful. ‘This, too, shall pass.’ Doesn’t everything?
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That’s the hope. Thanks John.
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Well said V.J. Not so simple
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Thanks Tina.
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I like the juxtaposition of the notion that the simplicity of staying put can become complicated. We humans have a lot to learn.
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Gives us lot to write about, lol. Thanks Heather!
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Welcome!
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Very nicely done! ❤
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Thanks Deborah!
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❤ !
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