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Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

Tell a blue bird she is beautiful

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

Ken Pepiton

Tell a blue bird she is beautiful

Tell a blue bird she is beautiful,
she will say,
I know.

Sweet.

#janet #birthday

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

Liar

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

annh

Liar

I succumbed
To the habitual sound of obstructed truths;
Deceiving and deceived therein,
Abolished of conscience;
My penitence seeded with disavowal,
Your disbelief my credo.

'The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.'
- George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism

#credo #disavowal #disbelief #habitual #obstructed #penitence #sound #succumbed #truths

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

Flux and Fixity

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

annh

Flux and Fixity

the present
forever shifts

yet remains
constant

claiming and
re-claiming us

a sequence
of stillnesses

flux and
fixity

finite and
infinite

‘It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.’
- Henry Miller

#claiming #constant #fixity #flux #forever #present #remains #sequence #shifts #stillnesses

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

Susurrations

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

annh

Susurrations

Whispering
t r a i l s
of light-glazed ephemera
w a f t
from plain to hills;

*G i l d e d*
grams of silken
f+r+a+g+m+e+n+t+s
warm with pine
and noon.

Sunlight
p i t t e r - p a t t e r s ,
D a N c E S t E p P i N g
the length
of a polo field.

‘Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that
I love - that makes life and nature harmonise.’
- George Eliot

#ephemera #fragments #pine #polo #sunlight #susurrations #trails #waft #warm #whispering

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

Going Viral

Jun 2020 Amanda N Skaggs

annh

Going Viral

[Social
.
.
distancing]
.
.
makes
.
.
the
.
.
heart
.
.
grow
.
.
fonder.

In this brave new world of no handshakes and multiple rounds of hand sanitiser there exists a blessed irony: social distancing is bringing my neighbourhood closer together. The solidarity of a shared smile - albeit bestowed from an apologetic distance of two metres - lifts the spirits, straightens the shoulders, and tickles the heartstrings more than any viral meme (no pun intended) could ever do.
:§

#blessed #distancing #fonder #grow #heart #irony #makes #social #solidarity #viral