a hammock gently sways
under cover of huge twin maples
on the edge of dreams
the trickle of the creek
the rustle of maple leaves
a passing wind
birds singing an ongoing melody
these sounds of nature and
dappled sunlight
sprinkle daydreams
on long summer days
Pat R
4/09/16
For NaPoWriMo here’s participants site
&
A to Z Challenge here’s participants list
crickets raise ruckus
cloud of fireflies play tag
humid summer night
Pat R
4/04/16
Day 3 of A to Z Challenge
Day 4 of NaPoWriMo
Over at the A to Z Challenge where poets post an original poem, today the letter in focus are words starting with the letter C
http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2016/04/can-i-do-it-atozchallenge.html?m=1
For the amazing list of well over 1000 poets participating in A to Z go here:
http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html?m=1
For participants list in NoPoWriMo go here:
http://www.napowrimo.net/participants-sites/
Photo: Taken at the Atlantic Antic Street fair, don’t know if they know each other but they do look good together 🙂
On his own / At thirteen a runaway
After passing of his mom / One true love gone
Childhood ceased / No longer belonging
There was no love in their eyes / He was fit only for labor
He made his way to town / Because no one cared
He surprised an older cousin/ This cousin looked out for him
He lived hand to mouth / Till he was seventeen
Then he met my mom / he met a girl of similar fate
She had just come to town / She too was fleeing hardship
These two wanderers made a life together / She had found her anchor
Pat R
4/03/16
Today is make up day and also a three for one day, also twist and turn day (prompt transfer day..Family Portrait was the prompt for Day 2 at NoPoWriMo).
This is for NaPoWriMo, A to Z Challenge ..I missed the letter …A, and Cleave Poem over at JaneDoughertyWrites.com. This is one of the coolest form of poetry I’ve come across. Thanks Jane:) for the introduction.
“A cleave poem is in two halves, two separate poems, one on the left, one on the right, but that make a single poem when you read them together. It sounds tricky…and it is. BUT there are no rhymes, no rhythms and no set length..”
For the amazing list of well over 1000 poets go here:
A to Z Challenge participants list
Today is day nine of the A to Z Challenge the letter is I
In this challenge I am taking the opportunity to learn more about art and the painters. I am learning a lot!
Sunset at Etretat by George Inness, 1875
GEORGE INNESS, American ( 1825 – 1894)
CANVAS
perched on a hill
enjoying nature’s canvas
the heavens come to earth
PR
4/10/15
George Inness was born May 1st, 1825 in Newburgh, a town upstate New York. He was one of thirteen children. In 1839 he studied for several months with painter, John Jesse Barker. In his teens, Inness worked as a map engraver in New York City. He studied with Régis François Gignoux, a French painter. He attended classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied the work of Hudson River School artists Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. He lived and worked in Paris and Rome. The work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies. He was one of the most successful landscape painters in America.
Inness died while in Scotland on August 3, 1894. According to his son, he was viewing the sunset, when he threw up his hands into the air and exclaimed, “My God! oh, how beautiful!”, fell to the ground, and died minutes later. What a way to go!
For a fabulous website for all things art follow link below
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/George_Inness/Biography/
http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-to-z-challenge-sign-uplist-2015.html
thoughts and entanglements 
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