Tag: rose
member name: Rose (just an ole GA peach) Williams
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January 13, 2009 04:52 PM EST --
Way Down Upon the Suwannee River
As many of my old Gather friends know, I'm originally from Georgia. My family and I have lived in north Florida for nearly 23 years, but for me, Georgia . . .
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January 29, 2009 11:13 PM EST --
Ask me if I love this water,
this Georgia clay stream
glistening so brightly,
sparkling with mica…
Ask me if it whispered
my name softly…
beckoning me closer
to enjoy its translucent beauty… . . .
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April 10, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
Creative Currents ~ 2
The Getaway Hike
Late afternoon sunlight
beckons me outdoors
Its warm rays massage
my work-weary brow.
Walking down the slope
to the . . .
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January 14, 2009 08:17 PM EST --
I was inspired to share this after reading Liz's (The Lady Raven Spirit) poem
Crows Fly By
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The Raven Knows
Raven sings a song . . .
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January 23, 2009 11:37 PM EST --
The Suwannee River Sill at the Okefenokee Swamp
Not too long ago, I did a photo essay called Way Down Upon the Suwannee River where I showed you all a little bit of the beauty of the River . . .
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February 05, 2009 10:34 PM EST --
Delicate ice crystals
too small to see from where I stand
sparkle under my camera's eye.
I kneel on a paper bag
shivering as I struggle to hold still
while capturing Nature's . . .
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February 10, 2009 11:58 AM EST --
This past Sunday I needed to get out of the house and go for a long walk. We had spent most of Saturday doing odd jobs around the house, cleaning up and laundry and the like.
So after CBS Sunday Morning . . .
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April 07, 2009 09:24 AM EDT --
Creative Current #1
A quick note to Mariana and my Shedding Light sistahs: I am very far behind, and hope to catch up soon. I have been jotting down my creative currents in my journal, but . . .
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January 16, 2009 10:45 PM EST --
While we were up home in GA over the holidays, we had a visitor in my parents' back yard three days in a row.
A red-shouldered hawk~
My daughter Sara saw him the first day and grabbed my camera . . .
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February 13, 2009 12:15 PM EST --
Dear Mother Earth ,
Thank you for the constant source of inspiration in your beauty that surrounds me. I could go on for pages about the soothing powers of your oceans,
the magnificence of . . .
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February 27, 2009 09:12 PM EST --
Posted for the Xpressions prompt of women~ a poem I wrote back in 1998 as I struggled to be what I thought was expected of me: as a wife and mother. Sometimes we set the bar so high for ourselves, . . .
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March 27, 2009 11:47 PM EDT --
It's funny how Mother Nature does her own thing and doesn't wait for us. She moves along at her own pace and if we want to capture a photograph of something spectacular, then we'd better be . . .
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March 19, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
A poem I wrote last year in honor of the first day of Spring.
THE BIRTH OF SPRING
Exquisite wildflowers-
Comely and delicate
with sun-splashed petals
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March 19, 2009 12:50 PM EDT --
Taking Time for Sabbath
Your Sabbath may be a holy day, an afternoon, an hour, a walk -- anything that preserves the experience of life -- giving repose and nourishment. During Sabbath, when . . .
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April 10, 2009 12:16 AM EDT --
Suwannee River Rising
The famous Suwannee River runs right through my little hometown of Fargo, Ga. Since I was up home this past weekend I decided to take a photo of the Suwannee . . .
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April 11, 2009 02:11 AM EDT --
NEON FLIES AT NIGHT
Encapsulated in discharge tubes
Neon glows, and it shows
its wares:
OPEN, HOT DONUTS, MAJESTIC, BUD LITE... . . .
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May 27, 2009 11:42 PM EDT --
All the rain we've been getting in FL the last week or so made me think of this poem I wrote several years ago after a long, wet drive my family and I made up Hwy 441 to my parents house. . . .
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February 12, 2009 11:45 AM EST --
In response to Kimberly Ripley's Gather Writing Essential prompt of writing about loss, I am reposting a poem I posted a year or so ago. I wrote it in 2002 as a way to deal with the long-term grief . . .
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February 26, 2009 12:23 AM EST --
Stolen Spring
The azaleas have been fooled again
by unseasonably warm weather.
They’ve recklessly thrown open their petals,
like young girls baring ample cleavage
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March 07, 2009 12:18 PM EST --
Food for the Soul
One Sunday, not too long ago, the arrival of a flock of small birds in my back yard was reason enough for me to stop my chores and take a break. A few years ago, I would have . . .
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