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Category: About the Book: Journey On: Beauty and Grit Along the WayTags: 2018, grandmother, inspiration, journey, Light, love, memories, new year, photography, winter, women, writing
Posted on December 28, 2017
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“There is more to life than increasing its speed” -Ghandi It has been a busy and exhausting couple of months. Losing a family member suddenly and without warning brings life to a sudden stop. Everyday tasks, schedules, work responsibilities and other commitments come…
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Category: creative writing, photography, poetryTags: books, Bright Star of Palmer Lake, Christmas, Colorado, family, home, inspiration, poetry, Quiet, Reflection. Memories, winter, writing
Posted on December 25, 2017
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This poem, written and published in my first poetry collection titled ‘Journey On: Beauty and Grit Along the Way, is accompanied by a translation into Latvian. Christmas Dawn I awake in the Christmas dawn light; a shimmering snowfall echoes upon the mountains. Through parted curtains, my curious eyes follow a shaking of snow from pine needled branches. An opera of sun slowly takes over; erasing long blue gray shadows. We lie under the soft warmth of the red plaid comforter, meeting the moment of a gentle and tender us. …
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Category: About the Book: Journey On: Beauty and Grit Along the WayTags: Christmas, creative writing, language, Latvia, Latvian, love, photography, poetry, Rocky Mountains, snow, winter
Posted on September 2, 2014
by annablakegodbout
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I am greeting September with a quiet poem for my readers. The bustle of summer is now past. Here in Colorado our mornings begin with chilled autumn like temperatures. Spots of orange are appearing on the scrub oak and the aspens are tinged with…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: autumn, evening, inspirational, journey, love, nature, poems, poetry, self publishing, winter, women, women writers, writing
Posted on February 21, 2014
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Before February gets by us, I want to share this poem about a moment in time filled with an enduring memory. As the snows falls and the wind blusters by, a woman with her warm comforts of tea and a charming music box from…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: February, flowers, Germany, inspirational, journey, love, music, poetry, spiritual, tea, winter, women, women poets, women writers, writing
Posted on December 2, 2013
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Late Afternoon in Early Winter The wood stove fire burns slowly, warmth seeps into ridges of a red fleece blanket that adorns my shivering shoulders. Outside the snow softly falls, swirls of silver and white cover autumn into bare branched silence. North winds howl,…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: Christmas, dance, December, inspiration, journey, love, morning, mountain, poems, poetry, silence, snow, winter, women poets, women writers, writers, writing
