Tag: love
member name: Annina Anton
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May 22, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Thirty years ago today I got married to my best friend. Lots has changed in the intervening decades, but he's still my best friend and I'm his. I guess that's the bottom line when it comes . . .
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May 02, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
We took the dogs to the vet today. Only one came home. Skipper is already missing little Diamond, and I waver between tearfilled sadness and relief. Deep in my heart I knew she was edging closer . . .
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May 14, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
From the time I was a toddler I assumed that like any woman, I would one day bear children and become a mother. It was a given in the early 1950's when the women's movement was just gearing up . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:05 AM EDT --
Mothersong was written in 1997 for my mother, LaVerne Jahrling, and published in a chapbook that same year. Mom is my best girlfriend, and when both of us were much younger, we were often mistaken for . . .
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April 22, 2006 02:08 PM EDT --
There is a mole on his back,
Black, perfectly round,
Like a period ending
A statement of fact.
I worry that it's cancer,
His body's way of dealing
With far too much sun
Over half a century.
. . .
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May 05, 2006 02:21 AM EDT --
I only looked for her three times today.
Erik came home and said, "I just looked for her at the foot of your bed--I miss her so much!"
When Chris woke he said, "The bed feels so . . .
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March 26, 2006 03:01 AM EST --
SEMELE'S PLEA
Show me now. Tell me of godly love, of emotion with the power to transmute one existence of being to another. Explain the yearning and pain, the agony of separation and the deep, earthen . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:46 AM EST --
My dad's family heritage was German. When I was a kid we would go to Granny and Pop Jahrling's house for Christmas. Their tree was huge and grand. Granny had trimmed it with her handmade German . . .
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April 19, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
She was born and raised in Minnesota at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. One day she rode her father's horse to deliver a message to her father who was helping out a neighbor in his . . .
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April 01, 2006 02:27 PM EST --
Some time ago I began to refer to discount thrift bakeries as "used bread stores." After all, they sweep the items from the supermarket shelves and truck it back to the thrift store to sell as . . .
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March 03, 2006 11:18 AM EST --
Even if she knew what it is that I do with keyboards and paper and pen, Neferkiti would be unimpressed. She is typical of her breed in this way--blissfully unaware, no better still, unaware by intention . . .
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May 13, 2006 11:22 AM EDT --
Just in time for Mother's Day, comes this new group, dedicated to celebrating motherhood and kids. Join if you've ever participated in the care and feeding of our most precious resource--a child! . . .
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March 12, 2006 10:10 PM EST --
Wonderful friend,
Sweet, sleepy companion.
I stroke her sleek nose
She purrs in affection.
Too soon, the quiet night
Becomes our pillow.
Created at www.magneticpoetry.com, using the Cat Lover's . . .
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