Tag Archives: imagination

Baseball Distance

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

The stands have virtual sound, virtual hot-dogs, and the game goes on with runners at bat, everyone on the field … BASEBALL DISTANCE                                  the stands are full of ghosts the lingering smell of stale hot dogs and forgotten cheers the … Continue reading →

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Total Eclipse

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I’m an avid moon-watcher, love to see it through the trees round our home, its changing position and light as the night rolls round (I’m a poor sleeper!) … TOTAL ECLIPSE the moon followed me home one night slipped each … Continue reading →

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Tired Language

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

Platitudes, clichés, banalities … they show up newspapers, magazine articles, and on the daily news, until I turn my hearing down and reach for strong words. Or just turn off altogether … TIRED LANGUAGE I deep-fry the alphabet                                        in pure … Continue reading →

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Cloud-land

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I haven’t reach the point of dreaming about rain, but almost! We need it, the land needs it badly … CLOUD-LAND a length of cloud                              reaches down wraps a roof-line and takes it   up into a somewhere over South Africa … Continue reading →

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On a bad day

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

So, it’s April 1st in a world that is very strange for all of us right now. I’m not that fond of practical jokes, too often someone’s feelings get hurt, and right now no one needs to be hurt beyond … Continue reading →

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Distant songs

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I was watching kids on a playground the other day, remembering games I played in the long ago, such fun it was, even the remembering. I don’t think the games or pranks have changed much … DISTANT SONGS the game … Continue reading →

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Mushroom haiku

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

Mushrooms come large, small, thin, and fat, good for you, or poison. They don’t harm a lawn, they just pop up after rain and look weird, but they break down organic material into stuff that feeds the lawn; just be … Continue reading →

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A Gathering

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

Crowds can be interesting, bewildering, scary, and, in small gatherings great fun, especially writers’ groups … A GATHERING they’re holding a writers’ festival                          on the far side of the sky up where sci-fi western      horror tales hang out … Continue reading →

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Stirring the Planets

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

September’s birthstone is the sapphire and birth flowers are the forget-me-not, morning glory and aster. Sept.1 is Father’s Day in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea; today, Sept.4, is Administrative Professionals’ Day in South Africa (check these out … Continue reading →

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Questions

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

There are some days when I wonder what’s going on. It may be the heat or the orneryness of life, things go missing (my garden trowel), things get found in odd places (a ring on the driveway) … QUESTIONS this … Continue reading →

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