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grace notes grace notes monday august 20 2012 oscar a poem for one of the best dogs ever and an important part of my family that we lost a few months ago oscar black as midnight brown as caramel sweet like it too he ran into our lives out of a leafy bush at the bottom of the driveway humility playfulness with a deep bark he protected our family black as midnight brown as caramel sweet like it too always cheerful to greet his excitement showed that you were home the softest floppy ears full short legs loved to run up hills and together black as midnight brown as caramel sweet like it too he was a part of us carrying comfort and peace we ll always remember black as midnight brown as caramel sweet like it too posted by grace at 12 08 pm no comments wednesday may 9 2012 as weightless as water as a child i feared its depths wondering what creature might seep in through the tiny cracks of filters and then with inflatable help my daddy taught me to swim and float on the cooling surface i learned to live in the bubbles surprise splashes and explore corners where bright pink goggles took me the unnatural blue felt like freedom like i was a bouncing astronaut and the water my untouched moon and i matured in an over sized rectangle with every handstand and each dive i learned to trust weightlessness posted by grace at 9 57 am no comments thursday march 15 2012 the porch view craving the trees and the crest of leaves and the alarms of birds songs like the bread and butter i need to sustain daily life is it in a southerner s blood to feel alive rocking on an open porch or is it that when the open air is gone for a long time you suffocate without breathing it in suns set pines fall and the sky is a daily masterpiece no artist can recreate and we find these things set before us every minute but smog covers our view and says it is like any other day you have more important things to do while the heart the artist s soul says oh no i painted these hues just for you so you would sit and find nothing but breathing to do posted by grace at 8 53 am 1 comment wednesday january 25 2012 monsters the monsters in my closet at eight years old surely have followed me into my twenties bringing with them scarier costumes and graver consequences for believing their power my fears have followed me but so has my spirit posted by grace at 10 49 pm no comments thursday january 5 2012 strength strength should not be measured by weight or appearance nor by how much we withstand strength is more knowing full well what lies ahead experiencing the disasters of the world listening to the words spoken against you and standing in the midst feet planted into the concrete raising your gaze from the ground to see what is ahead to see what is good that takes strength posted by grace at 10 54 am 1 comment wednesday october 26 2011 death of moammar gadhafi i was so struck and intrigued by the images i saw of people lining up to see moammar gadhafi s body in libya so i decided to put myself in the line and try to feel what these people might have been feeling death of moammar gadhafi standing body to body in a line of hundreds maybe thousands curved and legged like a caterpillar slowly stepping one limb at a time toward a victory a reward to prey upon we are victims and now we victimize him to take our place to take our scars if only we could see his lifeless bruised body then we could feel free in line we wait anxiously for death to turn into life posted by grace at 12 30 pm no comments wednesday october 5 2011 words here are two poems about the lovely topic of words enjoy 1 words i love and hate for they hold power over me to encourage and to destroy to bring greatest joy and to give greatest hate tugging me onto either podium happiness or hatred i have given words this value by putting them on such a level that they define and evaluate too much of what is my value 2 words so many days are too much on our tongue clinging to minds that won t let them free is it just me or do some words lodge into our being while others float by uninvited and unnoticed who determines what we will remember what stabs our ignorance and what we say that s never heard maybe it s clearer when we turn off our mouths and find the words that fell away posted by grace at 10 33 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers about me grace loving words and using them to write things view my complete profile blog archive 2012 5 august 1 oscar may 1 march 1 january 2 2011 17 october 2 september 1 august 2 july 1 june 2 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 3 january 2 2010 6 december 1 september 1 august 1 june 1 april 2 2009 8 june 1 march 1 february 2 january 4 2008 2 december 2 simple theme theme images by luoman powered by blogger