Family Table A handsome board in 1944 in clan of furniture they called a suite our walnut table opened up to more than eight, the matching chairs had padded seats. In youthful days it served mountains of food chicken, potatoes, bread, puddings with cream then listened to us add and sound out words cut crafts,… Continue reading Family table
A Winter Wish Soft air is gentle, warm and kind my limbs are tanned and free the doves coo tender, flowers sway with butterfly and bee The roads unfold to waterfall rock beach and pounding spray the sweet days slip like pearls unstrung this winter holiday If only I could have a wish I’d order… Continue reading A Winter Wish
Wild ride Crouch, stand tall mount the curling foam up and down in and out for the wild ride back to shore any wave will do © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Stalk Surfboards poised eyes scan restless sea calculate curl and height Maui surfers float and drift stalking the big one © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Voyeurs Snorkelers watch another world lazy drift gill, fin, tail turquoise Honolua Bay maritime voyeurs © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Boulder Sea turtle tossing in the waves surf and rocks play for hours lift head high to catch a breath boulder on the beach © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Winter flora Orchid leis Birds of Paradise Hibiscus Butterfly Plumeria—Maui’s blooms make us long for spring © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Neighbours Cardinals cattle Egrets graze Sandpipers Myna birds Neck-spotted and Zebra doves cooing night and day. © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Newbies Friday night newcomers, pale-skinned crowd store aisles shopping for week ahead in Maui sun Monday they’ll be tanned **************** We recently returned from a two-week holiday on Maui. What a treat! I had never been to any of the Hawaiian islands before, so everything was novel and new. I took lots of photos and… Continue reading Maui Scrapbook – Newbies
Adolescence Five tomatoes ripening on my window ledge four are green and hard and small the fifth is on the edge of young tomato adulthood large, red-green and blushing cast out from every unripe vine of gossiping–and wishing. © 2007 by Violet Nesdoly (First published in Family Reunion) *********** "Adolescence" is my contribution to the… Continue reading Adolescence
