Monthly Archives: March 2014

lost/in translation

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Sirena

as much as i try to reach a hand across the sea of our unfamiliarity i tire, the endlessness of your freshness i am no native speaker always this scrambling to translate a landmark out of such unrecognizables, the slipping … Continue reading →

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Writing Process Blog Hop: Hippity Hop

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Sirena

I am thrilled and honored that my eloquent friend, Miranda Stone, has invited me and three other writers to join the writing process blog hop, providing the opportunity to share our writing process and connect with other writers.  Find Miranda … Continue reading →

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life artist

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Sirena

*sometimes i am a painter musing which luscious hues to splash life   on the breathless incandescence of this day’s canvas?   or i am a singer humming my plucking tune what notes to choose jazzy! yowling, growling blues/// or >snazzy^^  to fill … Continue reading →

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cup running over with compassion

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Sirena

I have been sipping my cup of Yogi “Cold Season” tea as I bake some Chocolate Chunk Blondies (thank you, Ina Garten).  I had forgotten to read the inspiring wisdom on the tea bag till just now. Seems obvious, yet … Continue reading →

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muse muse

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Sirena

she arrives rising palpable or wispy even playful from life’s raucous symphony: the clunky and the graceful draped in sea breeze, a tune, a smiling bloom pots and pans and foreign lands dreamy vapors, scraps of paper this shifting shaper astride … Continue reading →

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adolescent

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Sirena

squirming within my own foreign erupting and awkward skin yearning to be seen but as another or better as myself (silently) this time could I be loved? disheveling my guise on the inside bleeding out the shifting gaze the quick … Continue reading →

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dress rehearsal 2

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Sirena

Tonight! dress rehearsal all or nothing game on or not? bathed and blinded stage lights illuminate  uplift your humble quest  to run breathless with the gods, crisp costumes crackle thickly electric this intoxicating scent  headily redolent of other artists, other nights, other … Continue reading →

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The Dance After the Obituary

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Sirena

That newspaper has rested, unopened, on the kitchen chair for these eight unrelentingly frigid weeks. I have walked past that chair every day, countless times, feeling the paper’s inauspicious chill barely contain itself, coolly taunting me across the narrow yet profound … Continue reading →

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hawk walk haiku

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Sirena

like the hawk circling elevate vast perspective inspiration comes ~~~ walking this wisdom same power, different hue: possibility ~~~ open~listen~see

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inner haiku

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Sirena

for all of my lovely blogging friends one part of me sings to another, echoing within harmony

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