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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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Hot Times...Summer in the South
The relentless heat of the noon-day sun wilts the tomato and pepper plants, bending them downward in lethargic fashion. The automatic sprinkler...
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A Wizard's Magic" Chapter 3
Leila was furious and turned on Troy as soon as they were backstage. “What the hell was that Troy? You didn’t tell me anything about a new trick. I...
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"A Wizard's Magic" Chapter 2
Belinda Myers leaned closer to Serena, “I can’t believe that Ray asked me to marry him,” she wiggling the ring adorned finger on her hand, flashing...
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"A Wizard's Magic" Chapter 1
Troy Nichols checked the final preparations for the night’s performance, satisfied everything was in place he jumped down from the stage and walked...
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"Antediluvian Trouble" Chapter 2
Allyssa sat in the atrium of her home staring at the setting sun and trying to meditate away her fury at Olrick. She viewed her lands beyond her open...
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Great read, honest and funny-
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020
Great read, honest and funny- sunshine with my coffee for sure. I too loved to play llibrary as a child, I'm not sure why, but I used a lamp that I switched on and off to pretend checking out the books. Guess we didn't have a stamp pad, but...
Read full commentPosted in Pad Life 12: Summer's Here!
Oh those washing machine sock
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020
Oh those washing machine sock monsters, I know them well, I have a hope drawer filled with the other half of lost socks and I know I should toss them but I cannot give up hope that that mmonster will burp and throw them back one day!
Loved...
Read full commentPosted in The Case Of The Disappearing Sock
Cute poem, very Funny image-
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020
Cute poem, very Funny image- I think many can relate to that too far away 'Throne' and possible charlie chaplin walk trying to get there- nice touch to have the kiddies lauging from a window perch at the elders running by...made me laugh.
Read full commentPosted in Mayhem
Great piece of childhood
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2020
Great piece of childhood reminiscence- The stories read by lamplight or candle in the impressionable years were absolutely the best. I myself fell in love with anything magical. I loved that you described the village and the mobile library and...
Read full commentPosted in The Corner Library
Sacred geometry-phi- fractals
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2020
Sacred geometry-phi- fractals- the beauty of design and connectivity in nature...the fragility of life...the curiosity of death? I felt all of this flowing outward from your eloquently written poem.
Especially loved:{ If we are made of...
Read full commentPosted in Golden Ratio
The movement of the river,
Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2020
The movement of the river, swift and forward like time it does not change its course. No, sadly, we can never go back to what was- but we can hold the memory forever in our hearts of those who have taken the rivers ride away from us. I loved this...
Read full commentPosted in Sweet river
It reads like a symphony of
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2020
It reads like a symphony of nature, each playing their part in the garden's orchestra. I loved the grass audience and the cascades of pale gold candelabras - it all creates a picture of beauty and harmony and I could almost smell the honeysuckle'...
Read full commentPosted in june 25th, woods after a hot day
I love a good strong minded
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2020
I love a good strong minded girl story - I was a bit of a tomboy myself in my childhood days - climbing trees and such but I still dont think I would have attempted a cave and certainly never alone.
Bravo for Annie!
Read full commentPosted in A Wish and Other Night Things
Some weeds are very pretty -
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
Some weeds are very pretty - those cats ears can appear like dandelions and they are pretty - Your lawn sounds lovley and that one side nurtured and the other wilting sounds a lot like my lawn here in the heat of the Florida Summer, it is brutal...
Read full commentPosted in Unmown ‘lawns’ – plant conglomeration
The bureaucracy of our world
Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2020
The bureaucracy of our world is mind boggling. It should be simpler when the circumstances have been laid at once. A permanent solution that his mail be redirected should not require you to go to so many depts and talk to so many people - and...
Read full commentPosted in He Isn't Heavy, He's My Brother.
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