http://rosedeshaw.com Slices of Now Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Patience Wheatley (From: A Hinge Of Spring) A Hinge Of Spring A blazing bird melted a twig's white cover-then there's another what can a cardinal want with winter warming the snow and rock-grey grass? cold binoculars fog over I rub and the birds jump huge in the centre of the round theatre below my birdfeeder the red male observes ... http://rosedeshaw.com/poems-of-the-laureate-candidates-patience-wheatley-more-to-come/ Bright cool morning with flowers their true colours after a storm night of wind & rain. Paradise in early autumn. Here's hoping my son's house in Halifax, right across from the Atlantic Ocean, didn't get blown off its hill. No word yet so I can sit and enjoy a ... http://rosedeshaw.com/hurricane-earl-scrubbed-the-sky/ CAROLYN SMART - (From, 'The Way To Come Home.') November: Frontenac County Trees are dark fountains of grief moaning, summer, summer in damp and breathless voices at the place where they pull free from soil, piles of leaves weep in their repetitious way, a haven for nothing Even the porcupine swings its quills away in scorn and continues its solitary parade towards ... http://rosedeshaw.com/poems-of-the-laureate-candidates-carolyn-smart-more-to-come/ (Gradually listing 1 poem per poet on the candidate lists) Helen Humphreys (From 'The Perils of Geography') Landscape on a Birthday All day the ground is restless with mud, glitching up into hunchback bubbles plotting the ruin of rocks birds are sprinkled against grey sky, speciks of black pepper flung up to find the sun All day the ... http://rosedeshaw.com/poems-of-the-laureate-candidates-frequently-updated-helen-humphreys-michael-hurley-eric-folsom/ Those of you who follow this blog recognize my house in this picture on the vine side, the end of a Victorian row of 4 houses. For the second night in a row, the noise next door grew louder until they added one of those South Africian horns ... http://rosedeshaw.com/loud-parties-by-queen-students-yesterday/ UPDATE - Today Thursday, Facebook sent me this message: 'on Sunday, there was a spamming incident on Facebook. During this time, photos (mostly of supposedly “free” iPhones) were posted to some people’s Walls, including yours. We’ve removed the photo from your Wall and fixed the issue that allowed spammers ... http://rosedeshaw.com/i-was-phised-on-facebook/ PAUL WEBSTER LYRICS LINKED TO MAYAN CALENDAR – DID HE KNOW? Fifties hitster, lyricist Paul Webster, agonized over whether to panic the known world with his sudden but brilliant insight into our future. What to do? With his covert but phenomenal psychic powers, way back in 1957, Webster was writing lyrics ... http://rosedeshaw.com/johnny-mathis-predicted-armageddon-breaking-news/ I need more sleep than most. 8 hours doesn't cut it. 10 hrs is more likely. BUT with my deviated septum, I need a mask, called CPAP, so I can keep breathing while I sleep. (That's the little demonically-possessed item in the picture. It fits around your nose). This ... http://rosedeshaw.com/demonic-sleep-apnea-mask-cpap-can-be-ccrap/ Disclaimer: This is an attempt at an objective overview of whom to choose for Kingston Poet Laureate. Though a sometime poet, I am not a candidate, being primarily a writer of Creative Non-fiction. NOTE- EXPECTING CORRECTIONS/UPDATES This site will be CONSTANTLY UPDATED as information ... http://rosedeshaw.com/so-many-great-area-poets/ Probably my favorite childhood picture of my husband. He is having a bath in what they called 'the washshed.' Stubborn as always. But here is this little square image, taken some seventy years ago - and what to do with it now? Here he is again, usually with a ... http://rosedeshaw.com/pictures-as-new-icons/