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

The Book Group - Anita


They came
  no one holding the book
    Ritual Bath
no one ringing the bell
everyone having read the book
  some returned it to the library
Everyone with a positive take on
   the book
A positive vibe in the room

My room, my home
The home of a writer
Having a book club for the first time
The house where there were workshops
   of poetry, birthday parties, retirement celebrations
My house where people did not want to leave

I polished the coffee table
  I moved the clutter
vacuumed the carpet
I went to the store and bought humus, and veggies,
  cookies, and strawberries and some mango too

I was so proud to have the book club
This home came home to roast

And the evening went
the decaf coffee downed
the guacamole eaten
so swiftly the evening left

I sat in my arm chair
Admiring the house
Another party another successful
  event
Yes, my house did shine 
  for that very moment!

Anita Schiffman Holzberg

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