The Encounter

Unconscious inside a dream

Clearly I saw a hand reaching for me

A tear force itself to my senses,

Pressing against the current

My lonely breath torn between

And illusions of a silhouetted walking on a dance of roses

Thinking of a dense reality

Bringing me back to the carousel of life

Tearing me apart was the last kiss of goodbye

Fearful for the two souls inside of me

I began to speak an ancient tongue

Reveals the fire inside of me, hear me loud and clear

The road has pull me back

Through a shower of darts fill with venom

Closely I laid my ear to the ground

Waiting for the typhoon of uncertainties

The silence whisper of melodies running through clouds

And then she stretch her hand of desire,

But my eyelid couldn’t see the beauty inside of her heart

I stood in silence facing and eloquent mirage

Waiting for my heart to beat again…

Rony Joseph all rights reserved

The Fall Season is the year's last, loveliest smile.

So Divine

©2009 Robert Burnham

(I told the one I wrote this for)

I still want to dance with you

Feel your breath on mine

Taste your sweet neck

So divine

Lost in your aroma

As I was so long ago

To listen to your heartbeat

That song I too well know

Memories of your fingers

Still caress my mind

And then your kiss

So divine

I honestly love you

On the radio

Your eyes above me

Where they were so long ago

To pick your fruit

To sip your wine

I remember how we danced

So divine

So divine

But gone with time

~ ~ ~

"I am one of God's creatures.

Pets like me are abandoned, abused and neglected everyday.

I've had to develop survival skills on the streets.

I drink from gutters and eat out of garbage bins.

The numbers of my friends in shelters is staggering (6-8 million in the U.S.).

Only about half of us will find homes.

If you find me, I may bite or bark at you because of fear.

My heart breaks because no one wants to take me home.

They just keep walking by. Why don't they ever stop to say hi?

I cope by crying alone in my cage at night.

I bark and howl at the moon when the person who feeds me is absent.

I continue to breathe and will even do tricks to impress you.

That should prove I'd be a good pet for a new kind master, right?

Do you believe in Heaven?

Pray for my brothers and sisters or many of them will be euthanized.

We all need caring, gentle homes.

I sure could use proper nutrition and some exercise.

Oh, and a comfy bed would be really nice!

I'd truly thrive with your attention and affection.

Look into my eyes-

please adopt me today!"

I rescued a stray Australian Cattle Dog pup today. She was malnourished, thirsty and scared. She may have been injured, but also had a seizure. Since I already have two dogs, I had to call animal control. The shelter supposedly works hard to get their incoming dogs adopted. Let's hope! Thank you for reading, Jen

Teachers  fill the child's mind with information they need to be employable.....

Coaches give a child motor skills in movement and encouragement to participation in life.....

Parents have to give them guidance in Life to be Socially RESPONSIBLE.

Gary Duffy2009

The Botanical Gardens in Dothan, Alabama was overrun with Scarecrows.  Check out the creativity put into these Scarecrows.  The last one was the spookiest to me and even had a Granddaddy Long Legs (yes, a real one) resting in the eye socket.

In allowing our imagination to run free, all things of the heavens and earth we shall see...

photo used in this creation courtesy of morgueFile

Day five started out on the wrong foot for us. We woke 10 minutes before the bus was to come, and clearly were going to miss it. With no cab fare here and no car, Gideon stayed home. It’s just as well, really, we had a busy night and he’d have  had no time to play as it was. So, we had a mommy Gideon day, which was fine by me.

Of course, this meant a slow, well, let’s be honest here… a non existent start for my novel. It’s okay, I was ahead and nearly at the minimum as it was. Of course I’d like to stay ahead, but it was okay if I fell behind a bit. I expect to fall behind come Saturday anyway.

Gideon decided he wanted some online games, so I gave him the desktop - the only PC that has online access - and I went off to look for the laptop adapter. I’m happy to report that I did find it and I had the laptop up and running. (Without frazzled nerves, might I add. Sammie thinks litfic might be my thing because I’m so darn calm this time around, LOL)

Gideon, of course was like “I want to use your computer” haha. I was unable to get a network on it, so no online access, sadly. But Gideon did decide he wanted to work on Tux Paint, so he did.

While he Tux painted I took the desktop a few feet away and started to type away. It took a while to get the few hundred words to get to the daily minimum, but that’s ok. I watched Gideon paint and we talked about his pictures between writing.

Gideon’s been real curious about all my pink post-it notes on the PC. Those are my word count notes and I explained it to him before, but he’s a real number kid, so it fascinates him. I told him and showed him my NaNo profile, too explaining it to him. And then on whim I told him about the YWP for kids. Showed him their site and told him it’s like what mommy’s doing but for kids like him. He was interested and said he’d like to try it. I stressed how It’s ok if he doesn’t make it and it’s just for fun. He chose a word count of 300 to aim for, which is the suggested minimum for a first grader. I told him I’d help him if he needed help getting his ideas together. :)

If anyone has younger kids doing NaNo, feel free to add him as a buddy. He seemed to like the idea of friends all doing this together. :)

Sammie got Write or Die’s desktop edition and reported back to me how it was. Needless to say I, too got it and it’s great. Hopefully she will stop in here and giver her success report of how well she did on it last night. I, too did quite well with it. I made my goal of 10K and PASSED it. Considering that I had a slow start to the day this was really impressive work. Needless to say, I, too will back Write Or Die. Get it. Best $10 you’ll spend. (and it amuses the kids when it punishes you, LOL!) I was punished once when Gideon needed some help and he was all curious what that sound was. Haha. Clint just doesn’t get why we writers want to be stabbed in the bottom with pitchforks.

All in all, a great day (albeit sad) novel wise. I’m now ready to write the fateful accident today and have hit my plot points. I expect to soar today… hopefully, unless the deep emotional scenes take too much out of me, that is. By midnight local time I had surpassed 11,000 words. The minimum to finish in 30 days was 8,335 words. This puts me ahead by two full days.

How are you all fairing as we finish out week one and head into the week two blues?

Good day everyone and yes Friday is here.  For most of us Friday is a day we gently flow into and yes for other it may be moire frantic.

What ever the flow and pace I wish you all a blessed day, full of joy, gratitude and smiles!  Choose we do, all of us how we share our smiles, if we smile and when.  A smile in my heart is the single most powerful expression we can share in an instant with another.

Full of joy, full of hope a smile has a great range of power.  I hope we all use it from the first impression we give ourselves in that mirror to the first person we see during our daily routine.

Smile and flow with joy and hope into your Friday today.

Yesterday after I posted here on Gather, Make ME Smile Online and Facebook, I checked my email.  In that inbox I found a post regarding a fellow Gather member who passed away.

I did not ever get to know Rob Appell who passed away Tuesday but as I read some of your comments and the post he wrote on losing his leg and the struggles.

His attitude was everything in that post and in much of his life.

I read more this morning and feel like I missed, it is so hard to describe here.

But I feel like I missed out on knowing someone who knew how to make the best out of a bad situation, no matter what.

I like that in a person.

Life is short and reading more about Rob's accomplishments, as a writer, a poet, a on air radio personality, a business owner.  His works will speak on as volumes for others to admire.

We can only hope to have such strength, and hope.

So today as we flow into our Friday, take a minute, one of those 1440 we all have in our days.  Send a prayer up to heaven and give thanks to God for sharing Rob Appell with us.

I wish I knew him more........

Rest in peace Rob!  Enjoy your final home!

Till next time..... May you all have a smile, and peace!!

www make me smile online dot com.