Stalk Surfboards poised eyes scan restless sea calculate curl and height Maui surfers float and drift stalking the big one © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Category: People
Maui Scrapbook – Voyeurs
Voyeurs Snorkelers watch another world lazy drift gill, fin, tail turquoise Honolua Bay maritime voyeurs © 2012 by Violet Nesdoly
Maui Scrapbook – Newbies
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
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
Siren Mall
Siren Mall Come on down have a good time here come, love the store Shop with confidence buy more, save more Buy two or more save the tax Get exactly what they need (first 5000 get a free poster) Visit Listen online Phone Leave us a message be smart with it bring it on call… Continue reading Siren Mall
B.C. Children’s Hospital
B.C. Children’s Hospital i Patio plants pale as the kids in blue gowns I.V. poles too empathetic or sad to bloom loud and bright. ii Cut-out words on the dividers trellis-hung pastel hopes: DREAM, FAMILY, FRIENDS, HOME, SMILE but most of all LIVE. © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly (all rights reserved)
To my comment box (and the people who use it)
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)
Permission
Permission When Mom was in the middle of planning her next cross-stitch crafting table centers for the Christmas banquet or piecing a quilt her workspace was chaos but her excitement, the sparkle in her told me dreaming, planning, designing, creating energizes. Maybe she is why I don’t feel guilty sitting here right now at my… Continue reading Permission
Curling
Curling In the hack and grip your rock crouch and graceful glide precise eyes on broom across the sheet send the stone along the ice. Skip is yelling from the house to the sweepers, “Hurry hard!” Rock is light and slowing fast comes to rest, a perfect guard. Rival stone sits in the rings they… Continue reading Curling
To Pastor Anne – Mentor
Kite of Spirit-wind the mention of Zambia lifts you into currents of memory – dancing, singing, preaching – class ascends with you the kite’s tail. Breeze swoops you in a prophetic direction: “You have dreams, abandon cynicism let God have His way.” We trail behind not sure where this is going. You reassure us, laughing:… Continue reading To Pastor Anne – Mentor
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