Defensive

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Welcome

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Forward and backward

It’s time to review a decade. All that is valued is packed away in boxes. Whatever is discarded speaks volumes about wrong decisions, wasteful expenditure, whims and fancies and phases of life relegated bins. I think about memories I’d like to take, and numbers I will delete. My relationships stare back at me, demanding answers … Continue reading Forward and backward

Bereft

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Home Decor

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In Communion with Nature

holding warm sunraysby their long, slender fingerswe spend wistful dayspining for Moon together-luxury of idleness we try to catch cloudsby their speeding, woolly tailseach of us possessunique strengths; we co-existon land, water - long for sky Tanka Tuesday - Ekphrastic Quadrille at dVerse

Change

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Crime

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Expectations

moments before I take flight; I pause to assessmy rated capacity, versus the realwill expectations improve, or downgrade the flightexpectations look so small, against the blue sky Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt