owlsight

owlsight, 12 hours ago to books

I’ve been reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or I should say re-reading it this weekend. Enjoying it!

If you have a love for reading, don’t ever let life take that away.

When a lifelong reader stops because life gets in the way, a part of how you relate to the world leaves you.

Change what you must, but this sacred time for you has to stay in your life.

#reading #books #lifelongreaders #balance

owlsight, 13 hours ago to random

Screech above my head
Squirrel sitting on a bough
Birds ate all the seeds

#MastoPrompt

Prompt - Bough

owlsight, 13 hours ago to Haiku

Sitting on the porch
Warm night fireflies and crickets
Lost art of being

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #smallpoem #writing

Prompt - Porch

owlsight, 19 hours ago to random

#SilentSunday

owlsight, 1 day ago to random

From 2015, a poem entitled
“Sometimes.”

http://ethelbythebay.blogspot.com/2015/12/sometimes.html

owlsight, 1 day ago to Haiku

Carefully worded
Chosen to create movement
Linguistic lever

#MastoPrompt #poem #haiku #smallpoem #writing

Prompt - Lever

@stevencudahy

owlsight, 1 day ago to Haiku

We all have those times
Peace found in staying the course
No easy choices

#thedailyhaiku #haiku #poem #shortpoem #writing

Prompt - Found

owlsight, 1 day ago to Haiku

Just by the front door
Beautiful peachy pink friend
So fresh and fragrant

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #shortpoem #writing
#bloomscrolling #roses

Prompt - Fragrant

Archive shot, August 2021 of my favorite rose bush out front.

owlsight, 1 day ago to random

Closing out #caturday, my wide eyed Jack.

owlsight, 2 days ago to random

Having eggs with some zucchini for breakfast.

The only drawback is the cat is on my lap between me and my food, and it’s really hard not to drop zucchini on his head 😸.

#lifewithcats

owlsight, 2 days ago to writing

Shoulder shoulder
Can’t you see
I need you to move
You’re wrecking me

Not today my shoulder said
I’m not playing
So get it through your head

That’s what you think
Whiny one
Have some prednisone
Let’s get stuff done

Ok fine my shoulder said
But just for today
And then I need bed

A truce is made and balance found
I’ll do some things
Then I’ll sit back down

#arthritispoem #writing #poetry #senseofhumor

owlsight, 2 days ago to poetry

Baby mouse
By my car

Holding still
Frozen in fear

Keep going tiny one
Tis neither your day to die
Nor mine

#Poetry #poem #writing

owlsight, 2 days ago to poetry

Once you know
You can’t actually make it right
You sit in that
At first you think
Yep
This’ll kill me
But
It doesn’t
How bizarre
Wholly unexpected
Stewing in it
This ridiculous wrongness
Waiting
Then
Suddenly you’re watching yourself
From outside
And….wow
You’re ok
Clearheaded
You can see
Really see
This action I choose
It’s the best available
I can’t make it right
Not this time
And
That’s alright
I don’t hate me for that
This is a taste of freedom

#poetry #poems #prose

owlsight, 2 days ago to Haiku

Night of crystal stars
Summer moon above the tree
Magic in the air

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #shortpoem #writing

Prompt - Summer Moon

owlsight, 2 days ago to random

My weekend reading in between all the getting stuff done will be a lovely re-read of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Heaven knows I’ve seen every possible movie adaptation of this, since I’m a huge classic horror fan .

But it’s been decades since I’ve read the book!

I recently got a Barnes & Noble gift certificate for Mother’s Day from my son, so I bought myself some classics that I had wanted to have in my collection 📚🤎.
#reading #bookstodon

owlsight, 3 days ago to genealogy

Writing. Genealogy. It’s time I combine these two loves of mine.

I almost did this many years ago.

I think it’s time I get this idea off the ground! So, here is the original piece I wrote to start things off.

It’s about Ellen Hughes Bartholomew, my great grandmother. #genealogy

http://ethelbythebay.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-womans-choices-originally-published.html

owlsight, 5 days ago to Haiku

Once bare and dry brown
Now wearing new clothes of green
The trees showing off

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #shortpoem #writing

Prompt - New Clothes

owlsight, 5 days ago to poetry

I think
You ought to be
Perfectly imprecise
And terribly unordered
According to the world’s standards
For when you do
Then
You shall find
The order of YOU
And this is as it should be

#poem #poetry #writing

owlsight, 6 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#morningwalk #bloomscrolling #wishes

owlsight, 6 days ago to Massachusetts

#morningwalk #naturephotography #massachusetts

owlsight, 6 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#morningwalk #bloomscrolling

owlsight, 6 days ago to Massachusetts

#morningwalk #naturephotography #massachusetts