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Many summers ago, in Iowa’s July heat, we spent a day.

Sun baking my freckled skin, I knelt in the wild strawberry patch.

My friend nearby, reminding me when I wearied, of the promise.

As night came, and we were back to our Illinois homestead,

we set the table with whipped topping centermost.

With growl inducing scents of batter to steam

from the waffle iron, we started losing our cool.

Sitting at the table, holding holds for grace,

we were indeed grateful for our day,

Ending with strawberry waffles.

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Ten Things of Thankful – September 18 2020

September 18, 2020September 21, 2020 Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

Lose me now in the mists of the last rains of summer

kissing the edges of fall, warming my heart and soul

leaving behind the persevering dripples of sweat

opening the doors to the scents of mud sliming away

and earth once more recycles to a new season

oh fall, how you warm my soul and cool by brow

slink into my life, once more with hope

for yet another life of joy

and let the winter’s glow call me forth

but only after I gently pace the shadows of falling leaves.

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And there you have it! TTOT in a poem this week. 🙂

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Balance – It’s Life

September 11, 2020September 12, 2020 Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

Balance begins early.

Building blocks of wood.

Bombies blasted with taws.

Beams balancing in gym class.

Be it what it may, it all leads

to vocation.

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This is in response to the Living Poetry September Visual Poetry Prompt.

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Predator

September 11, 2020September 12, 2020 Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

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An aquarium displays a rainbow.

It is a gallery of sorts.

Every shade of color and transparency seems possible.

There is this one thing, though.

With all the different colors

the target is easier to see.

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This is my response to Six Sentence Story. Prompt word: Gallery JOIN US

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Ten Things of Thankful – September 4 2020

September 4, 2020 Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

Happy Friday and TTOT time!! Let’s do this!

Thankful for outings and still the ability to social distance. We went to Shangri-La Little Stone Village here in NC. I found out about it from this article by Joel Haas on Walter. Here are some pics from our day hop.

2. My God Children finalized the sale of their townhouse, moved to a temporary space – which is super nice – and will be moving into their fresh built house in 2021. Yay!

3. I wrote an article for Love of Food and it was published this week. Here is the link: Make Salad with International Challenges

4. Daughter bought her first new sewing machine today. She had a machine before, but this is her brand spanking new one and it was so cool to sit while she learned from Lynn at the sewing machine store. I am picky about sewing machines and asked pertinent questions, but mainly daughter asked questions. In fact, I got up and walked around so they could get their lesson underway. Next project is to sew the masks which are ready to sew.

5. As a now online editor for a publication, I had an online meeting this week and it was so stimulating. A lot of new ideas are formulating.

6. My poem, which I worked so hard on and received awesome critique from the Living Poetry critique group, was published in Fine Lines for their Autumn 2020 publication.

7. Poet’s Connection is having a poetry reading on September 26. I am happy to see this get off the ground. Here is the link if you want to attend or know more: Meetup Link

8. I signed up for a podcast with Anchor and will start doing poetry podcasts soon. I need to find my quiet space, so that’s a goal. At least the podcast is free. I listen to podcasts on Spotify at night, when I can’t sleep. Maybe my own will help others sleep to the sound of poetry.