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‘Cyber’ me this

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Many moons ago, I started this blog… began organizing and publishing my writing, and working on setting down observations and feelings, this life, so generously, offers up.

Although I waffle between red and white now, the title still reminds me, of the warmth and brevity I felt, when I copied my first poem from paper to post. 

In this cyberspace world, we have learned we are only limited by the depth and width of our thinking, and our lack of knowledge. We can virtually, be anywhere, just by closing our eyes.

Funny, it’s always been like that. It’s just so vast now…

We attempt to cram so much information into our minds in a day,
perhaps we have lost trust in our own vision, forgotten how to give surprise and wonder a place in our reality…

*Pretty – Doxy

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Pretty – Dictionary definition: Pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing

 

Can’t we simply be … pretty?

Quiet worries.
Keep meandering tragic influences
at bay,
by behaving … pretty
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*Poetic Earth Month, (& exciting new form) Challenge – Distances & Magnitude

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 New Form Challenge     villanelle

*Write a poem about an experience that is very close or small, the way the ferry, the pocket, and the orange are to the ferry rider in the poem.  North on the Illahee Ferry Every few lines, pull back and consider the far distance or vastness that supports the possibility of this close or small experience.

*Poetic Earth Month’ Challenge Lost Love

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*Write a love or friendship poem that captures a sense of loss.
Include both:
• some kind of natural element
• some kind of human-made element

she lost her love.
daring down roads
once travelled,
she inhales the dust
with sweet remembrance,
squeezing the life out of life.

*Tweetspeak Community ‘Poetic Earth Month’ Challenge