Birthdays
Today's my birthday
so I took a long look in the mirror
to see if I looked any different.
I think I see some wrinkles
that weren't there before.
Uh oh.
Time for that expensive cream.
Haiku My Heart: Crema
fragrant with crema a perfect heart swirled on top delight grandé size Haiku My Heart
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PS - some of those "expensive" creams are only that - expensive and do nothing for your skin! xoxo
Love the photo of the elephant.
Thanks for stopping by my page - I often visit yours but apologize for not always, unfortunately, having time to leave a comment.
Have a good week,
Nora & Lola:)
PS So sorry to read about your bereavement.
THE PONDS
Every year
the lilies
are so perfect
I can hardly believe
their lapped light crowding
the black,
mid-summer ponds.
Nobody could count all of them -
the muskrats swimming
among the pads and the grasses
can reach out
their muscular arms and touch
only so many, they are that
rife and wild.
But what in this world
is perfect?
I bend closer and see
how this one is clearly lopsided -
and that one wears an orange blight -
and this one is a glossy cheek
half nibbled away -
and that one is a slumped purse
full of its own
unstoppable decay.
Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled -
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing -
that the light is everything - that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.
from House of Light, Beacon Press, 1990
hope this year (and all the years to come)overflow with adventures and joy!!
been away from the bloggyhood for a while, and missed out on what has been happening.... off to try and catch up.
xoxo Kim
xxx.
may all your days be sweet and joyfilled...
Happy days
Happy B-day, today is the first day I can more or less type with my left hand. I am thinking of you and hoping you day was wonderful and filled with laughter and promises for a wonderful, fulfilling and healthy year. Much love and many happy returns of the day.
Belated Birthday wishes for the very richest and most rewarding of years to come! xx
see what happens when life takes us away from our blogging family?? one week in the throws of an unexpected visit from a dear friend and you have celebrated a birthday!!!!
wishing you an abundance of pure happiness, radiant JoY! love.love and more love.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo,
rebecca