What a wonderful photo to go along with that poem! For sure, a camo failure. And a good lesson for middle school: there's beauty in just letting yourself be who you are! Embrace the camouflage failures!
Yes, Mary Lee, like water. Dogs have taught me a lot about contentment; how it arrives like an exhaled breath at the moment I let go, not so much when I hold on.
Mary Lee, my humble offering today that took me many scratched pads to come up with something that made expressed what I felt about a nature walk. White Space Moments at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2015/12/white-space-moments.html.
Blue striped whirlybird circles, swoops, circles again adolescents kick run shout surreptitiously embrace Am I the only one who wonders what prey this giant bird is seeking?
What wonderful images, Carol. And the verbs! Hoping today was better. As much as I love it, this teaching gig is hard on the soul sometimes. Not always flowers and full bellies; sometimes it's dry bones and thin soup.
What a wonderful photo to go along with that poem! For sure, a camo failure. And a good lesson for middle school: there's beauty in just letting yourself be who you are! Embrace the camouflage failures!
ReplyDeleteAnother tanka today. They seem to keep the doctor away.
ReplyDeletethe dog
sighs in his sleep --
our contentment
cannot
be gathered and held
Even here, where we try so hard to gather and hold, the words slip through our fingers like water...
DeleteYes, Mary Lee, like water. Dogs have taught me a lot about contentment; how it arrives like an exhaled breath at the moment I let go, not so much when I hold on.
ReplyDeleteThis comment feels like it could be a poem in and of itself. My dogs have taught me much, too.
DeleteMary Lee, my humble offering today that took me many scratched pads to come up with something that made expressed what I felt about a nature walk. White Space Moments at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2015/12/white-space-moments.html.
ReplyDeleteOn your poem-I love the bit of ironic humor that you always seem to bring to situations-Great expressive idea that sprung from a digital image.
ReplyDeleteA hard, hard day in my urban school.
ReplyDelete"Prey"
Blue striped whirlybird
circles, swoops, circles again
adolescents kick run shout
surreptitiously embrace
Am I the only one
who wonders what prey
this giant bird
is seeking?
(C) Carol Wilcox, 2015
Can only imagine!
DeleteWhat wonderful images, Carol. And the verbs! Hoping today was better. As much as I love it, this teaching gig is hard on the soul sometimes. Not always flowers and full bellies; sometimes it's dry bones and thin soup.
DeleteMary Lee- That red. Glorious. Even if it is a camouflage failure.!
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