Tag: southernstoryteller
member name: Rose (just an ole GA peach) Williams
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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… . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Raven Knows
Raven sings a song . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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, . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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
. . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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... . . .
more
|
|
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. . . .
more
|
|
January 19, 2009 12:00 AM EST --
A Change for the Better
The past several years have been difficult for many of us in this country. It’s been difficult to watch our nation failing to live up to its great promise, . . .
more
|
|
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 . . .
more
|
|
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
. . .
more
|
|
|
|
