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Blessings and Limericks

Blessings and Limericks

Poetry Friday : March 17, 2017. Slice of Life March Challenge. No.17. A slice– Today I’m wearing green. A blessing– Today, in the tradition of the Irish, I share two blessings, from me to you. The first one I adapted from Psalms 84:11-12. The second...
Question Poems

Question Poems

Poetry Friday : December 8, 2016. A couple weeks ago, Kiesha Shepard on Whispers from the Ridge shared “Leaf Dance” followed by an Invitation to Write: “Have you ever wondered what objects would say if they could speak? I wonder about this all the...
Listen for Me

Listen for Me

Poetry Friday : November 5, 2016. I have fallen in love with Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems, written by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Beckie Prange. If you know me, you will know why when you read the description from the...
Sea Joy

Sea Joy

Poetry Friday : July 1, 2016. Sea Joy Jacqueline Bouvier When I go down by the sandy shore I can think of nothing I want more Than to live by the booming blue sea As the seagulls flutter round about me I can run about–when the tide is out With the wind and the...
Vintage

Vintage

Paint to me is part of story telling, whether brush strokes on canvas, transforming walls or giving a new lease on life to a vintage beauty. Rachel Ashwell My granddaughter, a high school senior, motioned me over beside her on Sunday and complimented my outfit (made...