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".

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Beach Memories of the Wedding Weekend - Anita Holzberg

I wear a piece of beach glass
  found on the beach
     I put a hole in it
            and some leather strings


Shells 
  I hold one of them in my hand


How many years since I've been to the beach
  Maybe 4 or 5?


         Jim and I yearned for the beach
             We did not go
                          instead we stayed home
                             home became a refuge
                                            a place 
                                        that we found each other
                                                  loving the simple things


The day I arrived at the wedding
     Sharon and I found the room
               the beach was visible
                    I opened the sliding door to
hear the ocean


There is something stirring about the ocean
    there is peace in the sound of the ocean


The wedding weekend ends
  Beach walks in my head 
       next to the ocean of promise 
          
(How kind the kids were for their guests
How very kind.)

Anita Schiffman Holzberg
Mother of the Bride
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