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"Willow's Tail" 10
They returned to Martha’s house and Mr. Appleton, who should have been tired from his busy day and full French meal, seemed to have gotten a new...
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"Willow's Tail" 9
While Martha and Perfidia drew designs in the tea leaves at the bottom of their teacups with their slim spoons Willow jumped down from the stool and...
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"Willow's Tail" 8
Perfidia walked into the parlor after helping Mr. Appleton back to his room and gave a tired smile to Martha. Martha didn’t return it. “Cat step on...
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"Willow's Tail" 7
Martha stepped out into her herb garden and let the quiet of the day settle around her and since Perfidia had taken Mr. Appleton to his rehab this...
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"Willow's Tail" 6
The door bell rang as Perfidia was passing the front door, not seeing Martha nearby she shrugged and opened it, and promptly froze. “Mr. Appleton?”...
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The vaulted mind, locked, key
Posted on Sun, 30 May 2021
The vaulted mind, locked, key lost and unable to see another's view is a difficult thing to be confronted with and I am so sorry your aunt and you had to have that experieince, but it was a comfort and support for you to be with her. And maybe...
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When you bring these stories
Posted on Mon, 24 May 2021
When you bring these stories to paper they shimmer. There is a similarity in the decades for me, I too was young in the 60's so the games of marble, imagining of cowboy wagons, finger guns and pirate ships from crates, rings true to me. But I...
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Brilliant -I could see this
Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021
Brilliant -I could see this person so clearly and you captured a human moment of misunderstanding and embarrassed communication and captured it so humorously- I loved this one very much, well done!
Read full commentPosted in Don't judge a book by its cover!
Ah first love, the awakening
Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021
Ah first love, the awakening of emotions we never knew we could feel for another. It is heady and the world is vivid with color when we feel it but, as Jenny said, we do go through journeys good and bad to enlighten us, to bring us to discovery...
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A Powerful, chilling truth,
Posted on Wed, 12 May 2021
A Powerful, chilling truth, "Amazonian lungs reduced to ash'. You have hit on every cause and sorrow and any who read this should feel effected by these truths. Thinking beings supposedly of higher intelligence, should have an immediate empathy...
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Whispers of love do travel
Posted on Thu, 13 May 2021
Whispers of love do travel along sensory paths , a fragrance, a sound, the weather of the day can bring swift recall. Precious moments we've shared, recorded on our timeline, waiting for a replay. They are the whispered hello from the ones we...
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The poem is crafted in
Posted on Wed, 05 May 2021
The poem is crafted in perfect harmony from the first word and Where this poem takes you, is to that incredible, vulnerable moment you trust your love to someone. It is tender and heartbreaking and by your ending, it was the wrong person to...
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Never thought about how
Posted on Wed, 05 May 2021
Never thought about how difficult that migration would be for birds, now I think I'll never forget. Sharp writing, no superfluous words, every line flows into the next and the journey is with awareness. Thank you for posting this for I love when...
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Perfectly written, the muse
Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2021
Perfectly written, the muse of nature has stirred my words many a time so I am with you on that point and that sunrise must have been magnificent. Very well deserved Cherries Jenny- loved this poem
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If all could see as you do -
Posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2021
If all could see as you do - feel as you do- perhaps there would be change- but for those too wrapped in their ways -too blind to the pitfalls of their continued quick comforts -there is no hope for change soon. The plastic blight is everywhere...
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