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July 08, 2008 11:58 PM EDT --
A Woman Cathryn Momcat flowers Ritchie
I shine, I fall, I'm brilliant, I'm ashamed.
I blunder, I survive, I get confused, I say 'just the right thing'.
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July 06, 2008 02:35 AM EDT --
Golden Hayes*
Cathryn flowers Ritchie
Midafternoon rainstorm plopped onto our house
battering roof, pool, lake (laughing as it tossed it back).
Though expecting thunder . . .
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June 08, 2008 02:20 AM EDT --
Longing, pining "Will it ever be?"
Is life worth living when one is not giving
one's soul
one's love?
Questioning the One who is the Father,
who created . . .
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June 08, 2008 02:14 AM EDT --
When a Mother
My heart has come out of hiding.
forced out by giving love,
giving safety, receiving love.
Creeping and fearful at first
But out it came.
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June 08, 2008 02:08 AM EDT --
Afternoon jazz, sizzling Florida heat
composed sweet comfort.
Like sound itself, whispering
croaking whistle
entered my serenity with its sad tale
of empty rooms, broken swing . . .
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March 23, 2008 12:36 AM EDT --
Colorado comes to me
early evening breezes
refresh the air and the clouds frolic
in the crispy blue of the Columbine.
I remember the aspen leaves'
love of following
running with . . .
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March 22, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
I've become my own personal zoo!!
The skin on my thighs could be an elephant's leather wrinkled exterior,
my knees have turned nobbily like the bony knees of a crane.
There . . .
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March 22, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
Colorado Comes to Me
C athryn f lowers R itchie
Colorado comes to me
early evening breezes
refresh the air and the clouds frolic
in the crispy blue . . .
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February 19, 2008 08:08 AM EST --
I've been to Places
by Cathryn flowers Ritchie
Part I
I've been to places where I've known being known,
and (in spite of or because of)
loved. . . .
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February 19, 2008 07:59 AM EST --
Her Pain/ My Pain
The pain, the pain, the pain;
I can't get near it
I can't go there,
I can't be close to it or
I will be swallowed by it.
Her . . .
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February 19, 2008 07:55 AM EST --
I' m curious. What are you reading? Or, a little bit broader, what books have you started and have left laying around the house like wallflowers at the 9th grade social?
I have such a variant . . .
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February 19, 2008 07:47 AM EST --
I' m curious. What are you reading? Or, a little bit broader, what books have you started and have left laying around the house like wallflowers at the 9th grade social?
I have such a variant . . .
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February 17, 2008 09:54 PM EST --
This is a very long poem that I've written into a poetic essay. Hope it encourages.
Weeping Willows
A Crippled Couple. Beautiful, hair, black - Irish creamy skin; . . .
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February 17, 2008 09:46 PM EST --
I write for a renovation mag. This assignment had to do with renovating your mind...making your mind orderly. Thought you all might enjoy it.
An Orderly Mind
When my 10 . . .
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February 16, 2008 11:42 PM EST --
Tears falling
into pain
onto one too little,
too young to take my anger
falling, on her, onto me.
From the well of my existence;
sorrow so deep I can't find the bottom.
Ripped . . .
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February 16, 2008 02:39 PM EST --
Crumbs of Despair
Capturing you
into my darkness
making it yours; bedfellows in pain.
Relief is not an answer
for neither
distractions, actions
flight or entertainment . . .
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February 16, 2008 02:22 PM EST --
Snowy Cracking Sidewalks
Walking down
cold snowy cracking sidewalks
of my Colorado streets.
Glimpses into homes and souls
whole families, sitting together,
side by . . .
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February 15, 2008 03:15 AM EST --
Driving through my childhood
same houses, old trees
jarred by new bikes and even newer faces.
Pick and choosing the memories;
some too hard to take with me
some I forgot . . .
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January 19, 2008 02:26 PM EST --
Not only are these greeting cards personal, real and creative, each purchase (VERY reasonable price) will mail out a card and some cash for specific charities. Go to their website ( www.parkard.com ) and . . .
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January 16, 2008 10:46 PM EST --
Well, here is a new and interesting idea. PARKards stands for personal and real greeting cards. Please visit the site:: www.parkards.com Even though it says it is coming . . .
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