2013 SURPRISES

Some of these stats made me laugh and actually did surprise me.  These are always fun.  Enjoy!     The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2013.…

A BEAUTIFUL JOY

Weekly Photo Challenge: JOY When I think JOY I automatically think about my daughter. Look at these pictures and try to tell me you don’t see joy and then you don’t feel joy from seeing her.   Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy | Ese’ s Voice Weekly Photo Challenge – Joy | Chittle Chattle Weekly photo…

MY PLEASURE by Anonymous

She has her reasons for having me post this as anonymous but I think this is an amazing poem.  I am hoping she changes her mind and lets me sign her name eventually.  What do you think? I wear the bruises on my skin With a secret smile on my face I know how I…

DEPRESSION’S DANCE by HASTYWORDS

My latest book just went live on Amazon and it is slightly different from the last one.  In this book, besides the pictures and the poetry, I added voices.  It is hard to portray depression’s control over a person through mere poetry so I included conversations I had with depression.  Depression has a voice and…

MEMORIES

The most patient duet partner yet.  I am thankful they were so understanding about this one taking so long!  Check out ART GLUTTONY! WRITTEN BY ART GLUTTONY AND HASTYWORDS ♦ Holding on to your image The one inside my head Letting it paint pictures; Creative passions you fed ♦ Leaden heart, hollow soul The paint…

NO ENDINGS ALLOWED

In the very beginning you don’t care about the ending. Each smile cast your way is worth its weight in gold. The way they make you want to hold the phone to your ear longer than you ever thought you would, talk more than you ever thought you could; finding things to say when words…

HASTY WHORE AND CHIGGER

Today I would like to bring attention to one of my most avid and loyal followers.  He is amazing in that he has an opinion about everything and they are all interesting (if you would like to call it that).  I will call him Chigger.  Since I am such an attention whore I would like…

ANXIOUS ELECTRICITY

I quit you cold turkey I’ve done it before And each time I failed I’ve been told It is dangerous But this time I said  I feel strong, confident I can feel the strength Inside myself for once But now I feel it… The zaps forming The electrical pulse Of my body missing you For…

LIFE CHANGING GIFTS

Daily Prompt: By the Skin of Your Teeth “There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it’s heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The…