Thanks Chris! I love to celebrate life, and truly learned how to do that when I made my home in Chiang Mai. If you clicked on the picture and read the description you know how crazy and joyful the Thais are when they celebrate. Your words are very encouraging and special for me after all the fun we have had in reading the same stories and commenting. Thanks so much!
Thanks Paul! I will continue to post pictures and poems with encouragement like this. I find I am having fun writing a subject I hated is school. Crazy twist of fate. 😜
Thanks Paul! I'm pleased that you liked this. I love both cakes, but Black Forest cake provided more opportunity to have some fun. I'm looking for both ideas like the prompt that inspired this poem, and will also be trying new forms. Tanka poems will probably follow the next chapter. I appreciate your encouragement and support!
Terry
An interesting tale this, told two words at a time. The words in a matrix as I thought about how each word related to the next, and each pair related to the previous pair. It was a very inventive way to express ideas and thoughts. I hope I can be just as inventive someday!
This is an elegant exposé of choices we make or are made for us. The following couplets were powerful and personal for me.
Your insights and words are so exact and lovely.
I loved the whole poem. I've left the cold walks through the forest behind me, but got to relive brief moments in remembering them again. The first stanza described exactly how I felt as I began to walk. Glad to see that years later you are much the same person as you were then. Still facing the future defiantly with grace.
Cool crispy green bites
sweet Tyrian purple orbs
Mother of great wines.
Sil’vry wet bullets
plunge down from heights above,
wind-driven monsoon.
A rising shrill call
awakens every sunrise,
pleading I live here.
Gold eyed saurian
blends with an earthen clay pot,
waiting for his food
The bright torrent roars,
framed in lush green or white snow,
bring peace to the soul.
That would be awesome if you do that. The picture challenges were some of the first stories I read by you. As you know, I have followed you ever since those stories.
G'day Bucket! Hope things are going well for you now the weather is a bit cooler. I had to wince when you told us about hitting your toe. It's a thing I seem to do a lot! Glad it is better now.
Sorry to keep you waiting Albert. Songkran is like 5 days of the craziest New Years in a row. The Thais are very social, so that meant all day and night partying. I also worked to make sure I would be able to post my new chapter as I had promised. Then there were the books and poetry in process I am trying to keep up with. I will be able to start catching up to you now that I have more time to read. 😄
Considering where you live and your lifestyle, I'm sure you will love a trip there. The really difficult part is deciding what you want to do and see. There is so much to pick from depending on what you like to do! ❤️
Hi Gary! Hope your day went well. I am very happy the mare is doing better. I'm starting your Reflections now and looking forward to more tales of your woodland walks. ❤️
Hey Everyone! I just published chapter 2 in Blackbirds Singing it will be online in about 4 hours. It's my attempt at Haiku with poems based on living in the mountains of Oregon, and some about Songkran. 😄
Hi Clo! Hope you are good today.
Two year olds argue more than anyone else other than other two year olds. That would be a tall order for any of us. It's definite a very high reach for Drew.
Hi Page! Glad to see you know how to raise Max well. That subject even is disturbing at my age.
OMG Drew's been rubbing off on you! Now you are emulating Drew's destructive habit of using hobbit nukes. With all the snowpack, the destruction will even worse!