a way with words*
*a collaboration with Annie from What the Woman Wrote
stop by Annie’s blog to read grateful notes, poetic gems whose facets sparkle with truth and inspiring posts that will motivate you to chase your dreams.
a way with words
cursor flashes words appear like magic
distance shortens, longing for each letter
spaces ‘tween words where meaning’s lost–tragic
this void, nothingness, heart starts to falter
stutters to a stop until words appear
they wake the soul, begin to show the way
back to where love’s words once did appear.
hope returns, prepared for a brand new day
blank pages lie in wait to accept words
telling tales of dreams that are meant to be
no to do lists here committed to words
let spirit soar, as far as eyes can see
fly free of earthbound words that seek to hold
and offers peace on gorgeous plates of gold
I agree — what a fantastic couple of powerful women writers 🙂 Loving the collaboration 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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You are very welcome!
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Thank you Bikurgurl 😉
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You are most welcome 🙂
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Oh wowza–I love the blank pages lying in wait…and then the final line totally wow’d me!
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Thank you! We had fun writing this 🙂 Maybe too much fun
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Good for you 🙂
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Mel, in all my collaborative experience, if there is one thing i havd come to realize, it’s this….with some people you just click and your poetry flows effortlessly. And that’s the reason I work with Thomas so often. You can’t make out of its written by more thAn one person. Thaaaat seamless a good collab looks and feels like. This was your that. Just beautiful, you two!
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Blushing. Thanks again 🙂
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Aww Thank you!
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You are welcome, my lovely lovely friend
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🙂
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Your finest collab perhaps!
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Thank you for your kind words! 🙂
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gorgeous writing
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Thank you! She brings out the best of my Sonnet 🙂
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Yay I am happy to read that too 😀
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It was awesome
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It was! 😀
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😀 and it will be again! We shall collab again asap! (Please?)
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😀 I would LOVE to! 🙂
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When? I have no meetings tomorrow morning or this afternoon. I just have to periodically go over to the devs and remind them to work on the latest issue.
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You’re at work tomorrow morning? I can do tomorrow morning – around 9 PM my time again? Like today?
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Sure! no meetings and so far no early dismissal for Good Friday either. really hoping for that early dismissal…last year they let us go at 2:30 pm.
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See, I’m all discombobulated again. I thought your tomorrow was Friday. Duh. Well I hope you can get off work early for Good Friday!
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My tomorrow is Friday. It’s thursday night for me (I checked and Google verified this 🙂
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I should’ve done the same! I keep thinking today is Saturday because I am off work, so yesterday was Friday and your yesterday was Thursday because you’re a day behind… Oh now I am confused again.
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It’s still Thursday night here. I wish it was Friday night.
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It’ll come soon enough. What are your plans for the rest of the evening?
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answer comments, write, sleep…sleep sounds good
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They’re all good. Sleep is ALWAYS good.
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yes it is. We should get more of that!
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Sometimes I fight the urge to sleep. One more post, one more document, one more program, one more chapter. It’s self-inflicted, no?
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me too! I share your pain! That blogger is at it again but thanks to our quick thinking, when he copied the email and pasted it, he got only the summary sent out 🙂 I am not upset about that.It’s all jumbled up, no formatting and quite brief. anyone who wants to read it will have to click to read it on my website
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Darn!! Do you think it’s a bot??
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could be ifg Blogger has a post by email feature. Hopefully when Google investigates, they’ll see this as a spam site and take it down. I don’t think a real person is doing this. It was posted seconds after my post. Too quick for a human.
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That’s what I thought. And yesterday when I checked it out it looked to me like it pulled data from some random different sites. Do you think you need a screen grab of the site just in case?
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I don’t think so because there are individual urls for all the posts. I wonder how long it will take Google to act on this and how many other sites are engaged in this? I managed to convert a blogger who was doing this kind of thing over to the proper way of doing things–ie, putting a short summary and a link back. But this blogger site isn’t a real person. I just don’t understand what the blogger hopes to gain by this
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nah it’s still thursday night for another 2 hours 🙂
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I hope you are relaxing 🙂
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I hope your day is wonderful!
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It’s started out really great, thank you! Slow and lazy 🙂 I might even have a second cup of coffee pretty soon 🙂
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go for it! It’s your day off! I wish I had the day off. we get so few holidays. I am feeling cheated.
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🙂 Our holidays here are fewer compared to those in other S-E Asia countries. Comparing with yours reminds me to count my blessings 🙂
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I feel another gratitude note coming on… 🙂
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I’m collecting the little wonderful things and putting them in my virtual gratitude jar… this one might make it in the next edition of gratitude note 🙂
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ooo I love the idea of a gratitude jar! That is so awesome!
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😀 right now it’s virtual. I jot it down on my Evernote app 🙂 but yes it’s my gratitude jar 😀
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I have that app too! I should make it my gratitude jar,. I usually take notes in google docs. I love that app!
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It’s an amazing app! That’s where I draft my posts before I transfer them to WP or even Twitter. I have a gratitude tag and a thought just crossed my mind that I should have a gratitude notebook in that app 🙂
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ooo gratitude notebook! Omg that is what I need! Though google docs is my first love. All my posts start there. 🙂
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If you write longer pieces like you are now I suppose Docs suits you best. My notes are shorter 🙂
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Thank you! Writing with Annie was so much fun 🙂
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Such an awesome feeling. A time ago I had a hard time collaborating. It was scary. Love your writing btw, I lean more towards poetry and you have a very cool style in a classical way. I enjoy reading you. Thank you, it’s awesome connecting. 🙏❤️
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Thank you 🙂 I love reading your poems too. Yours have such a fascinating edge to them. Yes it is awesome connecting!
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I am deeply touched! This is what writing gives to the writer and in a way, the reader!
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Thank you! I loved writing with Melinda 🙂
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I can see and you’re welcome!
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😀 I am happy to hear that!
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aww thank you! We tried to capture that and it sounds like we succeeded!
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My pleasure!
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