POND LIFE

Gosh, Jenny...you've made me long for summer with your lovely poem. We have a small pond in our garden which is undergoing a major 'overhaul' as I speak. Just had tons of sand delivered this morning, and a new liner,and hopefully, this spring it will be full of 'pond life'once again...and not full of mud, as it is at present, and a rather disgruntled man in waders, not quite knowing where to start next!!

Tina

Wow! Tina,

thankyou so much for the comment, that is great
that you are having your pond overhauled, it's
lovely to have a pond, especially in the summer,
I could sit and watch the wildlife all day.

Thankyou again for reading and your comment.

Jenny.

This is lovely Jenny.

Hi seashore,

thankyou for your great comment and for reading.

Jenny.

I think it's lovely too, and like Tina, you carried me away to nicer weather for a minute - thank you!

ScoZen
Hello Skinny dipper.
I visit a secret pond nearby every so often.
Exactly as you portray it.
Must go, I've just been bitten by something...
Regards

Hi ScoZen,

well I hope you get to visit your secret pond,
hope you find some wild life.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

Jenny.

Hi insert,

thankyou for your comment, glad I could take you to
sunny days.

Jenny.

Very nice- I can see it all so vividly :)

Hello SundaysChild,

you are so kind, I'm so glad you can picture the
scene so vividly.

Your comments are very welcome. Thankyou.

Jenny.

Like all have said Jenny takes you right where most want to be right now. My poem late afternoon wass from a memory of being on a field trip aged eleven and writing down our findings of what we had found searching through a pond. Great minds... ATB FB

Hi FB,

thanks for the comment, as always great to hear
from you.

Thanks for reading.

Jenny.

This poem made me feel as though I was sitting there on the bank. So atmospheric !!
;)Pia

Thanks so much Pia,

ponds are wonderful places to sit and ponder, glad
you could feel the atmosphere.

Thankyou so much for reading, it's really appreciated.

Jenny.

I like the way you point the lens of your poetry at nature, like a camera; impartially; just showing things as they happen and, just like a nature documentary, your poem is inviting me into a wonderful miniature world full of drama and beauty.

You're poem also reminds me a bit of Zen buddhist poetry. Each verse has a haiku like quality; capturing the moment; showing rather than telling
but, at the same time, saying something profound about life and interdependency.

As a poetic nature photograph I think that this is very accomplished. I can see everything, the light and the color and the movement very vividly.

It is very visual, though; like a masterly painting of nature with every small visual detail faithfully represented but without any sounds or smells.

Mind you, the absence of sounds also gives me a sense of the quietness of the scene.

I also like the way you capture a feeling of real time passing in the poem through your descriptions of movement and stillness.

I think I also like how you give great importance to the smallest of things like the "flight of extremely small unknown winged insects" reminding us of how important even the smallest life forms are.

There are so many commendable things within this poem but one thing it shows is that you have a particular special talent for painting (in words) moving photo-realistic (and yet impressionistic also) portraits of nature.

Re-reading it. I also like the way stillness is broken but reforms like the water which is disturbed by the carp moving "snake like" and I like the subtle way that lighting (just as in the visual arts) is used to indicate mood. It reminds me somewhat of a Monet water-lily painting.

Dear well-wisher,

what can I say to your wonderful comment, I feel so
moved and humbled. You have made a lover of nature
very happy. I am only a beginner at writing, I think
there are so many good writers on this ABC Tales,
that I cannot even begin to compare myself to others,
who have much more talent than myself.

I have always enjoyed reading and writing, but only
in the past for my own private enjoyment, I am a
complete novice, when it comes to writing for others
to read. But when I get to read a comment, such as
yours it gives me hope that perhaps I am doing
something right.

Thankyou so much again, you will never no how much
your words mean to me.

Jenny.

new Skinner-Jennifer
Hi! just catching up
and reading this gorgeous
nature moving beauty poem
Of colour and images.Flows
just like well-wisher and other's
say the way you have brought in everything
and movements and stillness and calm of it.
Yes,definitely meditation which can be used
to soft music,amnd relax the person and imagine
all of these things and bring in fountains.Gently
massage the shoulders and feather tip the forehead,
relaxing the person of worries and anxieties calm music. Sit them in a chair gradually talk to them
to relax shoulders neck bottom legs massaging lightly. Of which I did one on here called I think relaxation.They may nod off. It works. Thanks.And we have pond in the park fish nearly gone Carp lot's of flotsam or moss on water running water spring.
julie xx

Hello julie,

you have certainly got the right image here, that is
exactly how I see sitting by a pond, somewhere to
meditate and forget all about the worries of the
day, all problems seem to drift away.
I too love the thought of a massage, gently taking
away all those aches and pains, with the calm music
playing.

Thankyou so much for the great compliment julie,
you are very kind. You take care and enjoy the rest
of your weekend.

Jenny. xx

new Skinner_Jennifer
Thanks lovely reply, course
I am talking from being able to
do this after having so much done.
But anyone can do this but must be
gentle touch and of course one goes
behind the back of the chair the person
is sitting in and starts etc. I once had
cramp in my toes way back,daughter young then
massage bit rough it went and locked them again.
Shoulders are the salt cellars, place hands and finger tipp gently out bringing in all roses butterflies fountains anything. Some used to stand up in a line at music group and do shoulders and also
children now relaxing ways.Not to rock music!!Soft non speaking one. So just try it? I have tapes from past,apart from tripping up three steps bedroom arms full grazed knee and big toe shaken, he just gone out. Better now. How's you you could put this on a tape of soft music and talk all the lovely things in it, there? you'd be made top of the hits.
Have a good week-end. Daughters taking me weds; kindly to see "The Black Swan" Ballerina nice never get pictures or flicks used to say. Last week "The Kings Speech" brilliant but adds: bit long before film.
Have a good week-end.
Neighbour's cat been in "Green Eyes" he is little love cries looks around talk him yes,been on two laps
likes to jump up stop the computer going? Take a quite a few photos, and loves look out window.Bit of
Siamese in him. Makes me laugh so much,mine never have a cat in. Poem "Green Eyes" done magic cat even
if not been too good comes sits on wall, now proved
different cries like a baby mean things true!
julie hope your ok.

:D ah so this is my pond one? thankyou Jenny it s lovely I fed some huge fish in a rainforest greenhouse place
the other day, it was so tranquil in there too :) x K

Hi Kahdai,

that sounds absolutely wonderful, they are
spectacular those rainforest greenhouses, I
bet you had a great time, I bet it was very
tranquil, sounds like you had a good time.

Thankyou for reading and commenting, it's
always nice to hear from you.

Jenny.

hope can catch up with more of your writing soon Jenny x

I know it's so difficult there is so much on here,
but thanks for coming back to me.

Jenny.

ofcourse you are one of my favourite writers you know :)

Hi Kahdai,

I don't know what to say, except that is a wonderful
compliment. You have really made my day.
Thankyou so much Kahdai.

Jenny.

:D good x