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335 of my 1,420 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 352 votes
JoAnne Stefanizzi
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Aphrodite's Slipper
She followed the red bird into the forest; it flew high up into the dappled sunlight coming through the canopy of thick branches and well shaped...
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Awaken the Muse
Imagination sparks Tinder ignites Liquefied sunshine Runs through my veins I am free Free to fly Unseen wings Carry me Past yesterday Through dreams...
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How the view has changed...
Staying home is spinning my head in many directions – I am worried for the state of the world’s health – I am worried for the continuing health of my...
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Looking Out My Back Window
Buttercup yellow the kitchen curtains fluttered with the breeze coming in from the open window A woodpecker with fiery red topping perched upon the...
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This Fine Spring Day
Strains of John Mayer's Gravity Fills the air Wafting from the portable speaker By my beach chair I'm parked on my lawn Catching rays of Vitamin D On...
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Your story and words felt so
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
Your story and words felt so real. The acceptance of the spirit of the lost child, still ephemerally in their lives, was touching and heartfelt. The notion that The Mother and Child connection is never severed came through beautifully. Katy is ...
Read full commentPosted in Katy, A Ghost Story (IP)
I love the flavor of
Posted on Mon, 20 May 2019
I love the flavor of friendship in this – you’re letting us in on your thoughts as this day unfolds, like we’re best friends and I laughed, commiserated and cheered and it was so much fun spending the day there – I truly enjoyed your wit and...
Read full commentPosted in Pad Life 3: Tunnelling Through
I could not stop reading,
Posted on Mon, 13 May 2019
I could not stop reading, each morsel of this story was more tender than the last. The way you wrote of the beauty of her poetry conjured images both amazing and provoking, winter can be warmly cold and artistically beautiful. This was a great...
Read full commentPosted in The Norwegian Poetess
Thank you airyfairy, it has
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
Thank you airyfairy, it has always stayed with me even though I'd never meet this relative, the ending of his life seemed so harsh for one so young (he'd turned 29 the September before that Christmas Eve) and the year 1944 just evoked so many...
Read full commentPosted in 1944 (12miles south of Spa Belgium)
I love what you surmise in
Posted on Sun, 05 May 2019
I love what you surmise in this thought provoking theory. I would book first passage to this Planet 9 free from all the animosity, hatred, wanton pollution etc... It would be a utopia for sure. Perhaps Heaven is out there among the uncharted...
Read full commentPosted in The Ninth Planet
I liked the structure, the
Posted on Sun, 05 May 2019
I liked the structure, the way the words flowed to take you through the moment when everything changed form lovely to painful, like anytime in life when we are hit with something fearful we pray. In this poem, your prayer was answered.
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Read full commentPosted in There's Something
I found so many ways to
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
I found so many ways to interpret this, one, it sounds like a marvelous garden planted and protected, but two, I feel it is a soul that is planted and defended in that garden and will not venture beyond the wall to where it is not protected. I...
Read full commentPosted in I won't leave my Walled Garden
I love that you respect all
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
I love that you respect all these animals as do I, and I know my dog is smarter than me because he tells me exactly what he wants( food, water, walk) and I listen every time.
Great rhyme and flow of this poem, I loved it and the cherries...
Read full commentPosted in I Talk To the Animals
Hi Jenny,
Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019
Hi Jenny,
Yes, I know we both wish they had written down those well loved recipes. I have ingredients but nothing of the measurements so her special touch, her loving touch, to all she did is lost to me.
Just as you'd said, the...
Read full commentPosted in Toss in a pinch of love
I often wonder about the
Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2019
I often wonder about the house I grew up in, now someone else's home...did we forget a picture? Leave behind a treasured trinket that fell into a floor board? Maybe a well loved house does capture some of our beloingings just to hold on to us as...
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