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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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"A Stormy Day and a Cup of Tea"
I love a cloudy, sun blocked, dark clouds rolling in, grey day. I am lazy personified on a typical sun drenched day with the heat melting my rubber...
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"Once Upon a Place to Read"
There was a place I loved to go as a child; it held a myriad of stories in worn pages, bound in leather and cloth covers. It beckoned me to come and...
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Under the Redwoods...
My hand upon it; I feel its warmth; its rough bark is pliant under my hand. I feel the breeze as the branches above move with the wind. I look up and...
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Random thoughts...
Random thoughts in the evening… Dusk is setting in and the low light of sunset is blanketing the grass with shadows and patches of last light. Day is...
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"Past or Present" Chapter 3
Stephanie sat on the bed in Victoria’s room and wondered what would happen if she fell asleep? Would she wake up back in her own life time? She hoped...
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I will follow my hope-for
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
I will follow my hope-for that is all it is, no proof- that where ever we came from - be it stardust or god's breath- that we return to that consciousness when we leave this three dimensional door.
This is a very well developed and...
Read full commentPosted in Death
Simply beautiful in its
Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020
Simply beautiful in its tender longing.....as far away as the stars.
Read full commentPosted in No Returns
I also see this as a toddler
Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020
I also see this as a toddler's first counting book with lovley pictures in it. Very well written poem Rhiannon. I loved the flow and content.
Read full commentPosted in Learning Counting 3, 4, 5 …
Insperational words for a
Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2020
Inspirational words for a quiet, sunny Sunday morning- Thank you Rhiannon for sharing your faith so beautifully. here- I will admit to you, when I was young my faith was stronger than it is these days - I guess my path is a little rocky and I'm...
Read full commentPosted in 'Yearning' is a sign of life
Great read, honest and funny-
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020
Great read, honest and funny- sunshine with my coffee for sure. I too loved to play llibrary as a child, I'm not sure why, but I used a lamp that I switched on and off to pretend checking out the books. Guess we didn't have a stamp pad, but...
Read full commentPosted in Pad Life 12: Summer's Here!
Oh those washing machine sock
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020
Oh those washing machine sock monsters, I know them well, I have a hope drawer filled with the other half of lost socks and I know I should toss them but I cannot give up hope that that mmonster will burp and throw them back one day!
Loved...
Read full commentPosted in The Case Of The Disappearing Sock
Cute poem, very Funny image-
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020
Cute poem, very Funny image- I think many can relate to that too far away 'Throne' and possible charlie chaplin walk trying to get there- nice touch to have the kiddies lauging from a window perch at the elders running by...made me laugh.
Read full commentPosted in Mayhem
Great piece of childhood
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2020
Great piece of childhood reminiscence- The stories read by lamplight or candle in the impressionable years were absolutely the best. I myself fell in love with anything magical. I loved that you described the village and the mobile library and...
Read full commentPosted in The Corner Library
Sacred geometry-phi- fractals
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2020
Sacred geometry-phi- fractals- the beauty of design and connectivity in nature...the fragility of life...the curiosity of death? I felt all of this flowing outward from your eloquently written poem.
Especially loved:{ If we are made of...
Read full commentPosted in Golden Ratio
The movement of the river,
Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2020
The movement of the river, swift and forward like time it does not change its course. No, sadly, we can never go back to what was- but we can hold the memory forever in our hearts of those who have taken the rivers ride away from us. I loved this...
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