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 […]
Love those swans!
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I do too! Thanks.
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Today it warmed up enough to poke around outside, but most of the birds still seemed to be hiding. It seems that in my area January is a month for many to hole up. My cat sits at the door in front of the window and gets mad at me for not putting more feed out ( or so it seems to me).
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Lol. Hate it when our animals penetrate our minds.
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Wonderful bird photos 😀
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Thanks 😊
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Gorgeously beautiful! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks Deborah
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Wow! I love the photo of swans flying
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Thanks 😊
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I’ve never seen a swan fly, just float.
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Good point. I don’t ever remember seeing the local mute swans fly. These ones are migrating
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I didn’t know that swans migrate, either. (I guess I don’t know much about swans!)
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Lol.
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