Standing sideways, like a cool drink of water with sandy hair, freckles, and blue-green eyes, you wink. Lissom oaks that taste one too many tempests tire and lean upon false walls of hope. Your welcoming harbors were the key that unlatched my heart. Like the Crepe Myrtle, I shed my bark, to expose the pearly white of my spirit, which sails with God.
Now, you are the vaporous insides of pain herself, like a wave of wrathful anger. You observe your inflicted pain behind a mirror image of yourself, in narcissistic armor.
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Excellent. Congratulations, Joni.
Hi Tim I am so very appreciative of your support. I am also grateful that you enjoyed the piece. Sending my love and hugs to your honey, all the creatures, especially the owls and for sharing your magnificent trees and nature which surrounds your beautiful land out by the Rio Grande. Lots of love Tim ❤️✨❤️🌹
Beautiful!!!!
Oh thank you so much. I am delighted you enjoyed it and thank you so much for reading me here it means a lot. ❤️✨❤️
Hello, Joni! It’s my pleasure to be here and my apologies for not being here more often!! Many blessings and hugs! 💕🥰
Please don’t apologize to me. In the last seven months my husband and I got our home ready to sale in NC than took a weekend to look at several homes in VA. We ended up closing on both houses the same day. Then I got a publisher, Prolific Pulse Press, for my book and have been working on that too. Trying to find doctors in a rural area is wild these days so if anyone should be apologizing to anyone on WordPress it would be me. I have a lot of people I really care for and many I love and yet I have barely been on WordPress. I pray for my friends and all the writing community because I do care about them all. Sending you enormous hugs and sending some fairies 🧚🏻 to drop off some fresh baked croissants tonight. Watch for the fireflies and they will be wearing their coats because it is a bit cold. They will light up your outside and you will know the goodies have arrived. 🧚🏻🥐🥐
Oh, I’m giddy with your response!! Such big life changes! I understand well, my friend. I sold my little home over a year ago to move to a bigger “city” (Springfield, MO) to be near health care. Thank you for the prayers and I will remember you in them as you are WRITING your book! I’m beginning one! I’ll gladly feast on croissants and I’ll watch the little fireflies in their little coats (AWWW). This made my day!! Hugs!!💛 🧚♀️ 🥐 (kinda looks like a shrimp from my angle—but I taste it as yummy goodness!). Thank you sweet friend. I’m proud of you!
I am glad you enjoyed your little treats and the fairies. They are a lively bunch. I have a girlfriend that they visit with in the summertime and she lets them sit on her hoop earrings and swing back and forth while she reads. She always feeds them well and she is a wonderful cook. I am delighted you are also writing a book. That is so wonderful. Good for you. Mine comes out in April. Prolific Pulse Press LLC is my publisher. She is wonderful to work with, Lisa Tomey – if you are in the market. Anyway I understand the thing about healthcare. It has been a nightmare in a small town. So I understand. Blessings to you my friend. Be sure to let me know when your book comes out. Sending you lots of love and hugs, Joni
Joni, this is so precious. I’ve been gone for several days and “behind” in reading AND writing, lol. Thinking of the fairies swinging on the hoop earring made my heart leap! Thank you for sharing about the publisher, too. Please let me know when your book comes out, too! I’m trying to decide next steps…it will be a while! Sending lots of love and hugs!! Also, I have 3 scans, a follow up at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland and lots of appts, so I’m “hit and miss” here. My apologies!!! Karla
Can you let me know how your doing. You can always send me an email at Joni.Karen.Caggiano@gmail.com. I would love to hear how your health is my friend. I will be praying for good news. May God place his healing hands on you and your sweet heart. Love you
I love you, Joni! Yes, I sure will today!
I had treatments yesterday and am happy to share.
That’s so precious to me.
I look forward to reaching out and hearing how you are doing too!
I appreciate you!💛❤️💕🦋🤗
I pray it was to bad, although I can’t imagine it being a pleasant experience. I appreciate you reaching out and it is very nice to talk with you my friend. Hugs and love, Joni
💛🙏 you too, sweet friend! I’m making it!! Much love! I appreciate you!
Sending big hugs, love and prayers for miracles. 🦋❤️🙏🙏
Thank you, Joni! He’s worked miraculously! 🫶🏻🙏🏻💕💛 much love sweet friend!
Praise God!!!! 🙏🙏
I emailed you my friend! God bless you! Much love!❤️💕💛
My dear friend. I am glad I saw your email and that you reached out to me. This was in my spam, I just had a feeling I needed to go in there tonight and I am glad I did. Hope you are having a relatively pain free day. Sending up love, hugs and prayers for you sweetie. Love you, Joni
Good morning, sweet Joni 💕 I appreciate your prayers and love so much. God is so good! I love you too!💛 yay to a new day!
Amen, your amazingly brave and wondrously grateful attitude is catchy dear friend. Bless you and may your day be filled with gifts. ❤️
Aw, I give ALL glory to God!! Thank you! Bless you precious friend! Have an amazing day, too!🫶🏻❤️💕
So grateful your faith is so strong as we both know miracles happen every day. Prayers coming your way my dear friend. Big hugs, love and prayers, Joni🙏
Thank you, dear friend!! Big hugs and love! ❤️ 🙏🏻
I left a comment over at Hotel but wanted to say here that I love it when I see a notification in my inbox that another exquisite piece of art has been crafted by one of my favorite and most admired writers. Each one is a gift, and you’re so generous with your creations, Joni. You spoil us with your talent and kindness. Thanks for this, my wonderful friend! 😊
Dearest Mike you are so very gracious my dear friend. I am always so touched by your enormously kind comments. To be called “one of my favorite and most admired writers” sent me right over the moon. I love your work Mike and am always left wanting more and filled with such intense feelings. I am still thinking about the poem of you in the rain on the bench. The intense emotions that provoked in me were extraordinary. So thank you with my whole heart for each word my most talented and compassionate friend. ❤️ hugs and love, Joni
Wow Joni…I’m just admiring and loving the poet in you in all your manifestations. This is so beautifully thought out and written, and its power is in its choice description of pain and disillusionment, picked like the perfect bouquet by your pen. I felt a few ex’s who I believed in, walk by laughing with their new love on their arm…It’s a bee sting to the heart and you so beautifully capture that in your words. Bravo Joni and Congratulations for your publication at Hotel!!
Oh Karima what a kind thing to say. You are so incredibly perceptive. What a very gracious and thoughtful comment, my dear friend. I know what you mean when you say the bee sting to the heart. People don’t understand the effect, that the lack of compassion can do to an individual. As you know, my friend, we all are walking a path, with trials and tribulations, and our journey is different for everyone. No one goes unscathed in this world from pain, and in Love I wonder if there’s anyone who has lived to be 50 or older that hasn’t been truly devastated by a relationship or two. Thank you so much for your very thoughtful comments today it means a lot to me. You touch my heart. By the way, if you get a chance, check your email and just a little bit. Sending big hugs blessings and my love!!
Beautifully expressed, Joni! Congratulations!
Thank you so much dear Dawn. I appreciate the kind comment. Thanks for reading me here at Hotel. Hope you have an amazing weekend. ❤️🥰🌹
Beautifully, deep and yet also so descriptive, saying so much with these beautiful few lines of poetry, you are amazing dear Joni, I’m in awe of your work 🍃♥️
Thank you so very much dear Anonymous, I appreciate your very kind words and appreciate you very much. I have a book coming out in the beginning of April and it may be earlier, by Prolific Pulse Press. I am very excited to have my dream come true.
Joni, this is such a moving and beautiful piece. Thank you so much for sharing it. ♥️
Dear Holly thank you so much for your very kind words they mean a lot to me coming from you. Your beautiful poetry speaks for itself. Hope your week is truly blessed. Much love and hugs, Joni
Joni, you never stop amazing me with your words!! Congratulations! Just skimming through the comments, it sounds like you are doing well, love you dear! ♥☺
Hello Tiffany, it was so nice of you to read and to comment I really appreciate it Tiffany. I know you are so busy and I was behind looking at your work and just about caught up the other day. It is fun to see the different types of work you do and I always find something very interesting to study in your work. I am glad that you seem to have more time for your artwork. Thank you Tiffany, I love you too. We are well and I hope you are as well. Big hugs and lots of love and blessings coming your way.
So sad. <3
Life can be sad. I try to write happy poems but it has been harder since the move. I really look forward to Spring dearest Anna. I miss looking at all my animal friends. I hope you are doing ok Anna and the family. I think of you. I send my blessings and love to you. I hope your health is good too. I pray for all the people I know on line and those I don’t. There is a lot of sadness in our world. I wish we could hold hands and run through a field of wild flowers, and look up at the sky and tell each other about the shapes we see. I love you Anna. ❤️🙏❤️