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New Year Haiku
It's time for the Watermark New Year Haiku Collaborative Poem Dance! You are invited to add your haiku in the comments, or you can email it to me at blogdiva AT sbpoet DOT com. Include a link to your site if you have one. Over the following few days,...
Almost time for the New Year Haiku
Three years ago, Andrew told me there is a tradition of writing a 'positive' haiku on the first day of the year. So I wrote one, and it became a collaborative poem dance. I forgot in 2006. We did one here at Watermark again last year, but I was late,...
A Year of Cats
Watermark's resident cats -- Spike & Boo -- have had several visitors this year. Here is a quick overview of 2007's kitties (click the image to see the large version - and originals -- at flickr): More 2007 cats: The Carnival of the Cats at Carnival ...
Winter River
Snapshot Poem| Moon Island
This week's prompt is Moon Island, which I used for another long-lines exercise. Again, I've done it as an image; click it to bring it up larger. Below the cut, the poem in text, with broken lines:...
Merry Christmas!
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Happy Holidays!
Winter Solstice It was dark and cold and Grandmother said let's make a picnic, we'll hang the beaded sun on the ceiling, have lunch from a willow basket. She laid out great-grandmother's quilt, orange and yellow and blue, a homespun lawn on the carpe...
My Lonely Christmas Tree
Look at that: no presents. I'm going to leave this at the top of Watermark for a few days, hoping for visits from virtual Santas. You can be my virtual Santa! [But you must have flash.]...
Blessed Solstice
This image is by catnapping, who gave me permission to post it. I hope she won't mind that I played with it a bit. Her work brings me pleasure all year long....
Letter to Santa, from Spike & Boo
Glow-in-the-dark cats Hypoallergenic cats Mice with no fear of cats More cats: The Carnival of the Cats at Carnival Of The Cats #195 On Sunday, the new carnival will be at: Missy, KC and Bear Weekend Cat Blogging last weekend was at Weekend Cat Blogg...
Gifts for Bloggers
Today's Holidailies post is at Blogging Blog: Gifts for Bloggers...
Frost
Where Are You Going?
Holidailies | Seasons' Greetings
Today's Holidailies post is at Abide: House-Bound Holidays | Gifts for Sick People...
Santa Cats
A little gift from Spike and Boo to you -- a collection of kitty oddities: The Presurfer: Kitty Wigs Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets : Ornaments With A Difference Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): MeowMeowMeow: What Are These Two Ca...
Santa Lucia Day
I meet this winter without celebration, as the man who was dying, but now lives, greets the ants that pass through his kitchen in narrow, undisturbed rows. When the child with her crown of candles comes to my door in her white dress, singing, I watch...
Raven
This week's prompt is Birds and Bonds, which I used for another long-lines exercise. Again, I've done it as an image; click it to bring it up larger. Below the cut, the poem in text, with broken lines. Oh, and -- forgot to mention -- I have another R...
Today's Gratitude
Today I am grateful to the anonymous neighbor who shoveled snow away from my garden gate. Whoever this was also (optimistically) shoveled a clear spot next to my car, and a path to the bird and squirrel feeders. The sparrows and squirrels thank you, ...
Reflections
There was a time when no one knew what they looked like. Unless they happened upon a well lit, quiet pond, they knew themselves only in the responses of others. What would that be like? To know, by sight, one's hands, one's feet -- but your own face ...
Changeling | a short short story
It began with a slight tension in her shoulders, a pulling. She was compelled to sit, and stand, straight. Just as her grandmother always had told her: stand up straight. There was some pain, but it eased as she learned to maintain this stance, this ...
This Is Not Paradise Junction
Here in the North we turn toward deeper darkness. Tonight's thin moon hides itself in clouds withholding snow. Our stars are curtained. No light falls on my skin. It does not touch me. I cannot feel it. I lie alone on this high, hard bed. Night follo...
Holidailies
Today's Holidailies post is at Abide: A Bad Spell...
Holidailies: I Introduce Myself
No, I'm not sticking my tongue out at you. Really. But I do love that Wild Thing. Yesterday was the first day of Holidailies, and we were invited to introduce ourselves. Those of you who have been reading Watermark for awhile know me, probably, bette...
NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo, & Holidailies
Woo Hoo! I actually managed to do this. And I can't possibly express how satisfied I feel. This was a totally different experience than last year. Last year, I actually attempted a novel; this time I began a memoir. And it is just a beginning. I know...
