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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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"Good Morning"
Weak sunlight filters through the tree tops Across the leaves blending colors lime to emerald dappling the ground in spots of amber Clouds roll in...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 13
Perfidia looked at the large tome on Martha’s bookshelf. “This thing is going to follow me around? For how long?” “Until it decides you’re a capable...
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"The Coffee House Spy" 15
Thies and Brent shared a look that telegraphed they were at an impasse with the non-agent, fake, fat guy. Thies narrowed his eyes on the smug captive...
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"Life is but a Dream"
"It spins the imagination round, your poppycock logic of hologram life…We are solid sir not see thru projections…You jackanapes of oddities have put...
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"Oneiroi" (Greek myth - gods of dream)
Pasty faces and foggy lands In dreams that shake the soul Phobetor weaves a tapestry Of dank and dripping shrouds To chill the blood and tremble lips...
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Her story is sad indeed. A
Posted on Sat, 09 Mar 2024
Her story is sad indeed. A woman of remarkable courage and vision led an army into battle and won but had to hide her gender and don men's clothes - and because she was a woman, her victory awarded her, not a medal but a martyr's death. Even...
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"peeping Squirus Vulgaris..."
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2024
"peeping Squirus Vulgaris..." --- I think his cousins live here in Florida; I've seen a few peeping squirrels looking into my windows.
I love your journal entries they are witty and enjoyable. You've brought to life a town of...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Spring awakens in your lovey
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2024
Spring awakens in your lovey words Jenny. Beautiful poetry:
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Read full commentPosted in Rousing Spring
I love the idea of a 100
Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2024
I love the idea of a 100 words a day journal; wish I had the time to start one myself. Maybe when I retire? But that date keeps moving into infinity, so not sure when my leisure begins. But I enjoyed reading your February entries very much and...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Early Doors
Wow...wow...This is so
Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2024
Wow...wow...This is so interpretive, surreal, filled with twisting images - I loved it! The first verse took me to the white album and of course I love the Beatles (Favorite: John Lennon) so Happiness is a Warm Gun conjured his voice for me but...
Read full commentPosted in Catch-me-if-you-can
I loved this and I think we
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
I loved this and I think we all can sympathize with that stench of industry seasoning the air with unpalatable odors. Where I grew up there was a paper factory...enough said... and I loved your rhyming of each day’s pungent aroma and the shrewdly...
Read full commentPosted in Cheese and Onion Tuesday
Clever Ewan, very clever- and
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
Clever Ewan, very clever- and I fear it too- can't be sure what is real these days. AI confusion abounds, fake images on social platforms, faked voices on robocalls, dead artists singing songs and acting in films- where does it stop--where do we...
Read full commentPosted in I'm Afraid of AI
A warm and welcoming story
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
A warm and welcoming story you fall into like a hug. Their ages didn’t come through until the end, very clever how this took you through the camping expedition that seemed to be in the wild and yet was actually set in the backyard of their...
Read full commentPosted in The Call of the Wild
Off the grid in the bath--
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Off the grid in the bath-- what a lovely idea---I envy you having a bath - I too have gone the way of the shower but I can remember the oveflowing bubble baths of my youth and off the grid! Soaking in a warm bath is a great place to imagine...
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Warm touches in this wedding
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Warm touches in this wedding poem; love is the guest of honor here and it is well seated in your words.
Read full commentPosted in Joyful, frugal celebration!
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