Monthly Archives: December 2011
Displays – This Week’s Picture it & Write
My mother jumped up on the table and started wiggling her hips. The crowd was throwing their arms up in the air, cheering her on. I couldn’t watch. I hid behind my fingers but I could hear my name. She was shouting for me to join her. This was the most embarrassing New Years party I had ever attended. I moved towards my mother and tried to coax her to come down. She didn’t. She stayed up there, she shook her skirt and called out to the crowd. I could see my mother’s body jiggling like jelly. Skin folded and rippled. I cringed. A couple of others joined her on the table with drinks in their hands. I left with my cheeks feathered rouge from the heat of embarrassment.
- Ermisenda Alvarez
How many of
these outrageous displays
Will mother in
her alcoholic malaise
Lead me down
paths of disgrace
With her “celebrations”
of New Year days?
How much longer
can I go
Through all this
I don’t know
Why must her
insecurity always show
When it only
seems to grow?
It fills me
with such rage
When she does
these acts stage
Why can’t she
act her age?
She never will
is what I wage
Long as my
memories have begun
This is what
she has done
And my disrespect
is all she’s won
The mother’s sins
upon her son!
Teresa Marie 12/31/11 ©
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Family – Saturday’s Hay(na)ku
Love
of family
makes life worthwhile
Giving 
strength for
the extra mile
Without
them I’d
have no smile!
Stay
with me
for a while!
Teresa Marie 12/31/11 ©
Thursday Poets Rally:
http://promisingpoetsparkinglot.blogspot.com/2012/01/agreement-for-poets-rally-week-60.html
Questions – Saturday’s Haiku
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The questions we ask
of our Father up above
He accepts with love!
Teresa Marie 12/31/11 ©
For Your New Year
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This is my prayer
for your new year
May all of you
live with no fear
When the angels are
ever to you near
As a child of God
to them so dear
May the Good Lord
make your path clear
That you will know
He’s with you here
For to Him are
you more than mere
And he does see
each and every tear
Know when you pray
that He does hear
Go live your life
as one without fear!
Teresa Marie 12/31/11 ©
Have a happy, blessed and safe New Year everybody,
with love, Terri
Plz – Saturday’s Other Limerick
At the word bitch I don’t sneeze
but I hope that everyone agrees
when you see the kitten’s backup
it really does crack you up
’cause I dropped to my knees!!
Teresa Marie 12/31/11 ©
Swing – Saturday’s Limerick
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Just a little mouse, as I swing
I’m thinking of not a thing
while back and forth I do sway
no words of wisdom I can say
what more were you expecting?
Teresa Marie 12/31/11 ©
Where Do We Go?
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Where do we go
when our illusions die?
Who wipes the tears
away that we cry?
Who will hold us
when we sigh?
Where do we go
when escape we try?
How do we grow
the wings to fly?
Who will keep us
all safe and dry?
Will they know
when we lie?
Who will the truth
then from us pry?
How do we know
on whom to rely?
What do we know
of angels on high?
How can we tell
that they draw nigh?
If there are times
from God we do shy
Do you ever suppose
it makes them cry?
What does life mean
can you tell me why
We live for a moment
and then we die?
Teresa Marie 12/30/11 ©
For my anonymous friend,
the questions have answers
I promise you!
Some Friday Night Laughs Via My Tumblr Friends
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Chicken Dinner
In view of the economy
it is so refreshing to me
Just at some point to see
the things in this world for free
A sense of humor seems to be
alive and well in this country
And we can laugh ’cause it’s funny
even though it has to do with money
When in the land of milk and honey
things have not been alway sunny
So allow me now to say
that somewhere down along the way
I hope that you find here one day
something to laugh your stress away
For outside the door it just may
be a world in shades of gray
Inside my home does always stay
a rainbow of colors to brighten the day!!
Teresa Marie 12/30/11 ©
