Poetry, Scribblings & Thoughts has been nominated for A Thought Provoking Blog Award by Anne over at A word or two.
Anne writes lovely precise poetry whose words pierce and linger. Perfect for reading and reflection.
The rules to this award are:
1. Thank the person who nominated you.
Thank you Anne for the nomination and thank you for allowing me to find your inspirations in poetry.
2. Post the image on your blog.
3. Share seven things about yourself.
- I’m a frustrated scientist who can’t understand physics. It’s true. I love the “why” but can’t do the math, so I remain unschooled in the calculus, and hateful of algebra.
- I once drank beer and shot pool with former U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins whose wry poems wound and heal. And wrote him a tribute poem, which I cannot find. (Maybe now, just now, writing this…I remember one other place to look?)
- I’d love to fly like a bird. My family had a plane and I learned to take off and land, but not much more–got too interested in boys.
- I’m a birdwatcher. Loving my feathered friends, whom I watch as they swoop, flit and soar outside my windows. When the hawk kills, I’m excited and repulsed at the same time.
- As a singer, I’m a wanna be. I studied voice and was too afraid to try for a performance career, and now wonder if I could have done it. I still love to sing. And have found freedom in letting my voice free. And in my career as a marketing consultant, have benefited from all the years of voice lessons-I can pitch an idea with the best of them.
- Because I’m somewhat narcissistic, I dream of being in the spotlight (see my revelation above–and you’ll understand why.)
- The mountains of western North Carolina are my spiritual home. I breathe easier there. Feel more free and more myself when I can smell the must of the decaying leaves in the damp woods.
Favourite day would be: A day spent on a nature walk in the mountains followed by dinner that I prepare and serve with luscious wines to my dearest friends and a few new-comers–just to keep us off balance–and during which we have lovely conversation that veers from spiritual topics to those of science.
4. Pass the award to five blogs you enjoy.
- Andra Watkins The Accidental Cootchie Mama
- Kate Shrewsday
- Misfits Miscellany
- Leander 42
- Jenny Badman Whip Smart
Poetry, Scribblings & Thoughts 
Thanks, Cheryl, for the kind words about my work.
Also, I really enjoyed reading your snippets here – what an interesting person you are!
Dear Anne–that coin has two sides and your comment is indeed reflexive!
Cheryl, this means so much to me. Thank you for listing me as an award recipient. I seldom do formal posts on awards anymore, but I am going to do an extra post showcasing this award and thanking you. I love your poems. Always have, since you first started sharing them with me. I am glad this place has become a haven for you.
Thanks Andra! You are the one who pushed me “over the edge” and said that I really should do this…and you, of course, were right!
Thanks, Cheryl. The mind is one of the organs I was aiming to provoke with MM, so I’m happy for that. Nice that you, Anne & Leander also got nominated; all deserving writers. Don’t know the others but I’ll have a look.
Andra and Jenny are both amazing writers-as is Kate.
And the mind if the best implement for writing-but you knew that.
With all the oestrogen lurking in these comments, I feel duty bound to say I find my penis a useful writing implement, too.
Ha! And I would accept that comment as a proud brain slut. (my term for my lust for good brains.)
It fits then that the motto for MM is Banging Your Brain.
Touche!
Ah, the old touch with the sword.
Whether the touch is old or young, one cannot tell. However, your point is made.
Stop fornicating with the lights out, and you’ll know whether he’s old or young.
Ha!
Great stuff…. and indeed the coin has two sides!
Shakti