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 […]
Gorgeous they are 🙂
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Yes, they are!
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Beautiful and cheerful!
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Thanks
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Welcome!
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love all the happy pink!
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Isn’t it marvellous. Thanks Wendi. Hope you are keeping well.
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yes, it is absolutely marvelous. 🙂
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Beautiful magnolias! I had the big white ones when I lived in Virginia.
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They are quite spectacular…and messy, lol.
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You’re right! My husband used to complain mightily about having to clean up after them.
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There is a native Magnolia in Massachusetts on Cape Ann, and the town of Magnolia is named that because the local species were found there. It’s on the small side compared to the large specimens we usually think of as being Magnolia.
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Must be beautiful – a part of the world I haven’t visited yet.
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Those are really pretty! Well done! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks. This was before the snow, lol.
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