hi all
on Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:32:16 -0500 Barb Patterson wrote, in part;
... Welcome home, Janet ...
thank you barb
here's one of the first entries of my journal
a journey of over five years here
soon coming to a bookshelf
near you
janet
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1996/02/21
home
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impossible
three small floating pink clouds
almost
luminous here
hints of shadows
and thickening there
edges thinning whisping to nothing
before the icy blue transparence of the dusk sky
sweet perfumed air drifts up to me silently
brushes my cheek with a loved one's
tender caress and is
gone
wild sparrows chattering
in the shelter of the tree's growing shadows
excitedly comparing stories
at the end of their darting swooping day
tame
ducks
murmuring
croaking quietly
ever hopeful
vigilant at their station
awaiting the kindness of others
janet paterson
1996/02/21
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this was the result of another of my first
writing assignments at spectrum's online
creative writing class: "Paint a word picture
of a scene/situation, using all five senses
for the details." (or some such similar
instructions - my memory fails me) i didn't
go any farther than my 'bay villa cottage'
bedroom window, overlooking daniel's head
road in bermuda, opposite the donald duck
retirement home which posed as a nature
reserve. i stuck my head out the window for a
few minutes, absorbing that evening's
particulars, then sat down at the keyboard
and watched in shock as this popped out,
essentially whole and finished, in 20
minutes. (a small clarification - the pink
clouds had manifested a few days earlier in
some bnet correspondence. the same bnetter
later compared the finished piece to
something about violets by the poet "p.b.s.",
to my much greater, and lasting, shock.) i
didn't understand it then, and i still don't
understand it now, but it's what i do.
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