personal poetry thursday...

no explanation.

and there she is
sitting across from me
feeling sexy, certain, silent
burgandy and bronze
wanting to be noticed
without wanting to be seen.

her skirt is full
and shadows are light
she listens to what you are saying
but doesn't hear,
not quite.

smiles are cordial
and vaguely polite.

answers are given
more ambiguous
than right.

and in her head
she is comparing herself
to songs.

summer reading update...

i finished this book last week
and i loved it.

i read her other book years ago
and i remember that i liked it
and that others that read it
at the time also liked it.

i was caught up in this one...
sophie felt like someone i knew...
like i had seen a friend each day...
perhaps i recognized some of myself
in her...

next on the list-
100 years of solitude.

WIP friday...

i have never participated in WIP friday before
but thought i might today
and it actually surprised me
how many things i have on the go right now...
heh.

this is kind of embarrassing...
i keep all of my knitting right here
cluttered on the shelf next to the couch.
heh.

there are four WIP's in the above picture.
one is a buggy-baby-blanket,
one is a pair of ten's jeans in the process of becoming
a skirt,
one is a bookmark for my bestest friend
and two envelopes
waiting to be filled to go to some special blog-like people

above is the start of picture
to be sent to someone else in blogland

the beginning of a baby blanket
in green and yellow
for another best friend
who's having her baby TODAY.
heh.
better put that at the top
of the list.

strawberries and cream blanket
and i think that is the end of my list...
i hope anyway...
a little overwhelming
when i think of all the other things
i still want to do...
heh.
other WIP's found here

*as always, my apologies for the dark pictures...
its thundering and lightning here.

poetry thursday....

He says, She says.

Coming and going
to-ing and fro-ing
off we set
off we jet
off like a herd of turtles

(and as i speak
my father's oddity
comes forth
and i welcome it
with a grin)


the prompt was to use a phrase
that you hear alot or use alot.
this is one that i use at least once a day,
off like a herd of turtles....

the rest of my day is peppered
with "done like dinner" s
"pitterpatter lets get at 'er"s
"hit the road jack"
"ready, freddie?'
and "ready to go, joe?" s

i say its because i work with kids
that i talk like that
but my dad talks like that
so maybe
its hereditary...
heh.

mary mary quite contrary.

how does your garden grow?
tomato plants starting to blossom...
tomato plants...

string beans finally, after having been replanted at least 3 times
the garden from afar.

and so i think my neighbors
may think i am obsessive compulsive over protective
about the garden.

i check on it first thing in the morning,
i keep all the little plants covered so the birds don't pull them out,
so i go out in the afternoon and uncover them
and SIT IN THE LAWNCHAIR TO BABYSIT THEM
while they get some sun
then i cover them back up when i go in the house.
i water the garden every night and tuck back in any that
i have left uncovered...
i'm a sick woman.
sick.