Day 7 | Saturday is....

Day 7 | Saturday is....

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today i am...
lonely as a robins egg is blue
and in a not feel mood to do much of anything
the heat on my skin is sticky and hangs on tight
as thick lined curtains hang in a window shutting out all  light
its pulling me under
as it leaves me gasping for breathe
the kind of breath that shocks your soul
when you hit cold ice
the tree limbs are swaying to a song
that belongs only to them...
how i would like to skirt up  inside
and hear their hushed lullaby
feel their limbs brush inside to the core of my soul
and take flight....
(c) Kelly J Petersen

rising earlier than normal this morning and greeted by the coolness of the air conditioner running all night long

i travel into the kitchen for my regular ice brewed hazelnut coffee and sashay out to the porch for my first cigarette of the day, journal and pen in hand.

Immediately Im assaulted once again by the horrendous heat and a wave of disappointment washes over me. i was suppose to go and shoot the Photo Fest today but because of the heat, i am once again bound to the house or anyplace that has air conditioning for that matter

the neighborhood cat just scooted pass me, perhaps she is looking for a place of shade and trying to escape this heat as well....i wait in eager anticipation for cooler days to arrive when i can fling open the windows and doors

im remaining in readiness for days at the lake

paddle boating and picnics

days squishing my toes in the sand

and light dinners on the porch

the sky is a blanche grey today and the promise of more rain lingers close by.

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its an alone day - leaving me with just my thoughts and a uneasy restlessness stirring in my soul to get outside

to have summer wrap me up in a pretty thin dress and leave me dancing

with giddiness under a pale pacific blue sky

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but instead im washing rugs and shower curtains, sipping ice tea and smelling bleach

and dreaming of being at the lake

sipping on cool white wine

and nibbling on cheese and fruit

kicking my shoes off and laying on

my favorite quilt

snapping polaroids and

a joy that washes thru to my soul.

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TODAY I KNOW....

that better days are ahead

this heat wave won't last forever

the cicadas are serenading me and i wait for them every summer to come

i love the sounds of summer

and the colors lure me in 

a wasp  buzzed by me that somehow managed to creep inside the house and i had to wake up hubby to kill it...

my thoughts are traveling to a friend  who buried his sister today and it brings

back sorrowful memories of when we buried my brother just a mere month ago

tonight for dinner will be carry out

and escaping into a novel while i wait for

cooler days to arrive...

maybe a movie on Netflix 

who knows.....what the day will bring...while i patiently

wait....

Whats inspiring me now:
currently reading : The Well and the Mine (Gin Phillips)
the colors of wildflowers blooming outside my front door
Inner Excavation magazine by Liz Lamoreux

Words of Now:
sultry. cigarette smoke. bare feet. cat howling. air conditioner humming. trees swaying. breezy. blue tinted skies. hard chair. dead flowers. green tall grass dancing. airplane overhead. skin clammy. hair sticking to the back of my neck. windchimes still. creativity blooming. deep breaths...poetry. reading. ice tea. lavender smells inside the house. a creeping by kinda of day with the west sun blaring in thru the west windows..unwanted...

and early this evening its chasing the light

XOXO

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