Two woman, Anita Holzberg and Ann Wainwright met over the internet with Bill Costley,
their common friend, whose wife Carolin had been Ann's good friend. Starting in
June '09, Anita sent a Cupcake poem to Ann's website cakecakecake, after seeing
the photo of cupcakes. The poem was about her grandson's first birthday party. Ann
liked that and it was the start of a wonderful exchange of poems from Anita to Ann and
Ann with color, photos, and lay-out savvy, presented them to the blog. Now, in 2010,
the two women so alike in spirit and interests, have started BetweenFriends, a new blog
site where they can combine ideas about their worlds. Ann lives in Northern UK
(Teesside). Anita lives in Northern California, Sunnyvale, (Silicon Valley where all the
computers are.) We share our lives on this blog and hope you will comment and share
yours too, dear readers and enjoy the "ride".

Monday 20 August 2012

some friends - Anita Holzberg 


niceness does not count
or courtesy does not cut the rug
surface comments can be biting and cold

we need our friends
when we need our friends

some friends completely ignored me
after knee surgery
some came back to apologize
I can not count on them for the future

We sit, stoic
trying to tough it out
but friends that don't get it are not really
   there

I sat her in my house for almost 6 months
That's a half a year
And realized
I was my best friend.

Amen.

Anita Schiffman Holzberg
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