THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF MY YEAR ~2014

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 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 56,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 21 sold-out performances for that many…

IT’S IN THE PIECES

I wrote this when I first started blogging.  I guess relationships are something I have always over analyzed and today is no different.  Words4jp made me think of this poem I wrote so long ago. Our relationship wouldn’t last long It was nearly over before it even began I knew it even as I held…

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE COOL – TWINDADDY

He has a proper name but I will forever call him Twindaddy.  We wrote our first duet together in March of 2013 when he had the blog stuphblog. Since then we have written many more and have gotten to be good friends along the way. Twindaddy (Scott) knows, better than most of us, what it…

NO ENDINGS ALLOWED

It’s been a little over 25 years since my husband and I became a couple.  I wrote this a year ago and it still holds as true today as it did then. I am NOT an endings kind of girl. Chances are if I ever loved you in any way then I still do; I…

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE COOL – JOHNNY OJANPERA

      Yesterday I posted a list of books published by people I have the great honor to know.  Today I want to highlight one of those authors because he just released his latest novella Gringo Parade Johnny is the author of the blog Johnny Ojanpera- The words I didn’t forget.  Johnny is truly…

DADDY BLACKBIRD

It happens more than I would like to admit but some stories punch me right in the heart and it takes a bit of time to get it to beat again. By now everyone has seen the viral video of the dad singing Blackbird to his son (who died shortly after his mother did). I…

You SO are

Originally posted on The Well Tempered Bards:
? I will not have it. I’ll brook no argument. I’ll tackle all those demons With their malicious, hate intent Those ones who whisper in your ear Who play upon your every fear Who stalk your shadows and stick too near I’ll batter them. ? I’ll stand firm…

SLOW MOTION

SLOW MOTION by Hastywords Anxiety Infects her thoughts Holding her hostage Screening and erasing Her cries for help Fear Riddles her with angst Constantly chastising Rendering her helpless To its mindless chatter Irrationality Hijacks her emotions Running high speed Full throttled attack Beating her senseless Depression Sends in its battalion Of whispering ants Surrender this…

PECULIAR

Written by JStewart413 and HastyWords   At times I can’t tell If I’m walking Upside down As I drown In seas Of evergreens My hair Rooted to the ground And my feet Lost in the clouds It’s all so Very mixed up Confusing As I watch The stars Sparkle To the beating Of my heart…