Between Friends: softly the bird hovers

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".

Saturday, 10 May 2014

Softly the bird hovers

The tea is in the mug

Slowly, the curtains open

The sky emerges

The sea is tranquil

I pack up this house

Everything about those books

Are memories

Poetry books and History books

All lined up

Waiting to be read again

How can I bear to take them out of view?

These books stood the test of time

When everyone left

I took out Neruda's Love poems

Remembering your face

when you

gave it to me

We saw the movie Il Postale

You loved Neruda as much as I did

Still-- I love you & Neruda

Like breathe itself

Packing it away now

I have my memories

Stronger than life itself.