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 […]
Amazing colors indeed, especially of the bicycle 🙂
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Very precise, but pictures say all the words really.
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They do! Thanks.
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Love the header image!
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wow lovely rich vibrant colours, thanks heaps VJ … brightened up my day 🙂
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Good challenge.
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thanks VJ, well worth reading Astrids link for this one!
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I could go for a nice canoe ride (now that it’s stopped snowing).
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Little chilly yet, here. These are diehards I’d say.
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Right now, I’m more for the fantasy of a canoe ride than an actual canoe ride. It’s chilly here, too.
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Lol.
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VJ, I love the blend of blues, greens and yellows. Keith
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Looks like summer, doesn’t it!
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Truly.
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I love all the colors so pretty! 🙂 ❤
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