Ti Amo Loves Hurricane Heaven

POINT OF VIEW: A Dog Named Ti Amo My friends and I do not relish hurricane season. The truth is, we unequivocally ADORE it. Wah-hoo!!! We live in Florida in the United States. Our owner, Fawn Rising, keeps preparations set up for emergencies. She is always prepared with a plan. We try to help her […]

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A Shredded Heart Finds Joy

  Over the years, having lost two of my own three children, I filter  joy every possible moment… My very firstborn grandchild is Ian Gray Hazzard who is about to turn 22 years old. He has a grand spirit of communication, kindness, and is impeccably aware of circumstantial modifications taking place in the world. Away […]

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And They Called Her Suffering

And for that, she was grateful… you see, as winged nature sailed over God’s freshwater lakes, their wings glistening and soaring, they exposed to her pathways of hope. Just as we suffer muscles to make them stronger, so do we gain strength from the suffering of our core natures.    Suffering believed her name was […]

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The Gift I Have to Give

    Reeking of guttural sensitivity for the moment I am in many times has induced others to call me “overly sensitive”.   It used to cause a thrashing around within my heart.   Then, at other times it is a debilitating process memory.   Now, it seems to be my primary gift to the […]

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Isn’t It Always About Me?

There have been times in the past when I can honestly say my quivering heart felt abandoned empty unattached unheralded and lost without familial nurturing or bonding. Instead the caring touches and reminders of fleeting moments in time when amazing occurrences seeped into moments of being human did not exist to flourish. Instead I was […]

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An Absence of Threat

  An Absence of Threat   I am drawn, without being cognizant of it, to humans and places and animals who are non-threatening to themselves, and to others.   Photography by KatrineDunnPhotography©2020 Poetry by FawnRising©2021 February 19, 2020 Le Lac du mon Père Crystal Lake Florida USA Earth

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May I Have This Dance?

  We are Daughters of Life’s Dance Our mother at sixteen leaves high school at the end of the ninth grade She is pregnant.   A waltz of missteps a round of wooden stick horses   Requests for hugs and touches of the clear crystal lake that echo our grandfather’s national broken record in backstroke […]

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Upon Waking Fifty Years Ago

No breath cold white silence I try to breathe into him it is his first night in his own nursery with colorings of crayons by his sisters their names on the walls now a morgue.  Poetry & Illustration by FawnRising©2021 February 10, 2021  Le Lac du mon Père Crystal Lake Florida Earth

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Shredded

My heart Makes a divisive turn It morphs from the highest plane of a mother’s unfettered love To the lowest suicidal cause of ending life as known.    All for reasons unexplained Unknown Hidden Shredded.   Poetry & Illustration by FawnRising©2021 February 9, 2021 Le Lac du mon Père Crystal Lake Florida USA Earth

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My Time of Grace

This is the story of losing my marriage, teaching exceptionally talented youth, having a stroke, struggling to walk again, then finding new love with the arrival of love-seeking Rescue animals and a remarkable human in my life.  His name is Dave.   Would you not love for the world to listen to the song “Hallelujah” […]

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Miscarriages & Marriages of the Soul

Memoir/book/movies crash & burn ideas (about Nahnee’s life): Hijacked Marital Miscarriages The Miscarriage of Marriage Marital Abortions Nahnee’s Dream last evening (11.13.20) (12.5.2020): •In the next ten or twenty years, Di moves to what she calls Katrine’s Old Office (where she stayed a bit, pregnant with Ian & having left St. Louis) ~ made into […]

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Yet More God Diamonds

Overwhelmed by The intensity and length   Of the COVID-19 Virus she put her head down and took a very deep breath. Upon lifting her head the sky was filled with diamonds … God-diamonds ~ Clouds wishing her steady passage the healing of friends and family the awareness of our need ~ to listen really […]

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Papa Knows

The air is clear the waves simmer all souls begin to stir along with Papa’s watchful eye from the heavens and nature’s wild love affair with humans . . . We begin again with day two of hope, resilience, and mercy, November 8, 2020. Thy will be done. ~ With a grateful heart to Papa and […]

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