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".

Friday 3 October 2014

Rain - Anita


White rain
 wind and shadow
red rain
 soft and fleeting
purple rain
  undulating and ominous
green rain
   springs and memory
yellow rain
   sun-filled and showering

We walk in the rain
Sometimes fierce, sometimes romantic

Like shadows we seek
Undercurrents of a past life
Stream.

In This Morning - Anita Holzberg


Cool sunless dark morning
Fall scurries in
The pumpkins are already in the stores
The squash is going to be a soup
In this morning
When there are no chirping of the birds
When silence pervades this house
I feed my cats
The past rushes in
Gangbusters
Fall was my opening of the first day of school
Fall the Jewish holidays
Fall, resolutions and promises
I promise to live life fully
To catch the shimmer of light
To stand tall
To be a friend to all
To never be a shadow
To become something more every day
What about You?

Anita Schiffman Holzberg