Waiting for the Rest of Your Life Are you content in your comfort zone, keeping within familiar parameters? Do you wear blinders to keep your focus fixed in front of you? Intent on trudging the well-worn path, are you afraid of taking that first step toward the rest of your life? People have a … Continue reading
Spun to Death, poetry and photo-creation by Joan Ellen Gage
Spun to Death This modern amoral, truth-spun (Let’s not call them lies) world, sends me under the covers, hiding from the daily talking heads delivering todays affronts to hearts that still beat for humanity and brotherhood; hearts that bleed and crack open from the onslaught of cruelty and cowardice, while our minds consider madness rather … Continue reading
Carve Your Words Carefully, poetry and photography, by Joan Ellen Gage
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The Pen is as Mighty as the Knife Carve your words carefully, with studied blade trimming unsightly grammar, hollowing out weak characters—all spool away as they are cut, like apple peelings, the unnecessary, the contrived, the awkward, fly from honed hand as imagery is revealed. Saw-dusted adjectives and adverbs lie in disgrace, on the cutting … Continue reading
INVISIBLE, by Joan Ellen Gage
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Invisible See me, do you see me? I am here, and exist, just because I am hidden in my nest, just because I don’t call to you, does not mean I am invisible. You are caught up in your lives, staying with the familiar. You disremember I am still here, you forget, and I … Continue reading
Aflame, poetry and photo-creation by Joan Ellen Gage
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Aflame Have you discovered that you are not alone in this world? Humans cannot exist on this planet as an island of one. And, have you found your Higher Power, Spirit, God, or whatever you choose to call him/her/it? Have you plugged your “adaptor” into this power source, and experienced enlightenment, and/or a power surge? … Continue reading
The Pacifier, by Joan Ellen Gage
The Pacifier I have been given a special gift of time. Most of which I have squandered, although in my defense, I have been mentioned in Housekeeping Beautiful for keeping up with the housework and laundry! As much as I want to take time and write, the process itself means stealing alone time, which, unfortunately, … Continue reading
ARISE FROM YOUR ASHES,poetry and photo-creation by Joan Ellen Gage
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Arise from Your Ashes The dream is still alive and waiting. It waits for you to restore it to wholeness, and inhale life into the very lungs of hope, to deliver the kiss to your sleeping beauty heart’s desire. The time has come to break into the vault of your psyche and free the … Continue reading
Root-bound, by Joan Ellen Gage
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The Root of the Problem It has been suggested that when your life seems without joy or laughter, and you have no interests, you may be root-bound and need re-potting! What I take away from this, is the need to nourish the soul, our roots, to improve our condition. Subject our foliage to sunshine, … Continue reading
We are Unfinished Works of Art, photo and poem by Joan Ellen Gage
Excerpt from: “A Woman for all Ages,” from A Redhead Looks at 60, by Joan Ellen Gage As time passes, we need to deal with and understand, what lessons each decade teaches us. Hopefully we learn and embrace the wisdom from our experiences, and in turn, these life lessons flesh out who we are becoming, … Continue reading
Be here, seize the now. Poetry and Photography, by Joan Ellen Gage
THE ZONE While sequestered as a willing tenant in your self-made prison of busyness dream of ways you can be free To give yourself the gift of a precious few moments, no distractions lock out your outer life and meditate Find that it is almost a new experience as you may have forgotten the sensation … Continue reading
