What they wore Magnolia's wedding gown was French satin with a veil of lacy water parsnip. The Rose sisters classic suits were tailored pink jersey. Aliums chose ruffled sundresses of yellow lawn. Love-in-a-mist was crisp and cool in blue seersucker. But the Pansies in their elegant but flirty little black satins stole the show. By… Continue reading What They Wore
Seasonal Junction The shouts of the kids from the pool and the smell of chlorine alternate with the smack of a kicked soccer ball and the prairie-wheat fragrance of grass on a breeze that blows summer-to-fall like the warm-to-cool currents that pass over swimmers in blue summer lakes. © 2004 by Violet Nesdoly (all rights… Continue reading Seasonal Junction
Corporate Cuts Five years ago the cut was surgical. Just minutes with the boss and it was done a severance of sinew, muscle, bone shock was the anesthetic, then slow heal. This time they used an endless tourniquet new paradigms, objectives, letters, dates twisting his job description with new weights revealing their design by slow… Continue reading Corporate Cuts
Where I'm From I am from chickens and Massey tractors from Sugar Pops, Velveeta cheese and Welch’s grape juice with pop. I am from an oasis – a cream house, red barn, silver quonset surrounded by caragana hedges and two pines – on the Saskatchewan prairie. I’m from the sandbox-and-slide the railway track the… Continue reading Where I’m From
in tutus pink, rose fuchsia ballerinas slim stamens en pointe pirouette as we applaud lovely summer’s brief plié © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly ******************* The July prompt at Poets Online was to write a summer tanka. The collection is up. Summer has a lot of angles; take a look. My contribution, the poem above, is… Continue reading summer tanka
Family Reunion And he turned himself away from them and wept. - Genesis 42:24 Those rugged Semite robes, that tangled hair, how this one walks, another’s face, those eyes... They near, the smell of Canaan fills the air. Ten sheaves bow down – a wondrous, cruel surprise. “Your servants, twelve, are brothers, sons of one,… Continue reading Family Reunion
Light All galaxies and planets roaming free In chaos through an undivided night No creatures formed to know that they are blind Only Creator knows what He will find When blazing forth He parts the land from sea Illuminates it with, “Let there be light” The elements obey and there is light Planets and… Continue reading Light
Seasonal Sestina The calendar announces it is spring Our skies have lost their pallid arctic blue Though wind still scatters puffs of icy flour My garden boasts the spear-point of a plant Can’t come too soon – this kinder, gentler reign When all the world’s a’grin, even the ground It’s lost its look of… Continue reading Seasonal Sestina
To my comment box (and the people who use it) Your presence rains on my isolation. Your encouragement stimulates growth. Your dissent rakes through hard-baked thinking. Your creativity fertilizes understanding. Your logic stakes rambling intuition. Your new paradigm hybrids my viewpoint. Though I must fence you against the weeds of spam and prune vulgarity, meanness… Continue reading To my comment box (and the people who use it)
She took me away with her After Norah Jones’ 2002 album “Come Away With Me” Norah Jones sultry on the boombox of my daughter’s Kamloops apartment that hot weekend in 2003 says “Come away with me…” takes me back to a 70s Vancouver basement suite Lazy, laid back, take-a-break-from-life music sweet as first dates “you’ll… Continue reading She took me away with her
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