Beautiful Sunday

Posted on 03/03/2015 by Andrew Reynolds

The winter day dawns cold
with the promise of rain on the grey horizon.

A light dew dampens the leaves
of the trees with the dry roots.

Green grass pushes up to greet the sun
in its short moment of life.

The sun climbs
warming the cold ground and burning the grey away.

Clouds bleached white by the sun
a gentle breeze from the sea pushes them lazily along.

Our lungs fill
with the fresh clear air.

Clear blue skies
cause the soul to drink in deep.

While our eyes
see the rain gauge standing empty.

Warmth and light
keeping away the nourishing rains.

The dreadful beauty of a
warm winter day
that leads to the dry summer and the season of thirst.

 

You get two poems this week.  I did read chapter 3 about Tuesday in the book, The Last Week, but some minor medical issues have diverted my mind from writing so I’ll have to post about that later.  I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the cross instead of writing.  I’ll have progress pictures of that tomorrow.

Till next time,

Andrew

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Throw Pillow

Posted on 03/01/2015 by Andrew Reynolds

On the couch they are decorative
fashionable accessories
brightening the living room.

On the sofa they are good
to support the back after a hard day’s work
or to lay one’s head on while sleeping to the TV.

They can be used on chairs
and beds
and even benches.

My mother had lots of throw pillows
Green and orange square ones on the couch
Red round ones on her chair.

But mother took the word too literally
and in her hands they took flight
across room with deadly aim.

Tease her
answer back
disobey

and the boy could find
a flying object on course towards
towards his head.

In my childhood we called them,
throwing pillows.

 

There you have it, this week’s poem – seriously mother was a dead shot with a pillow and we kids learned to never challenge her to a pillow fight.  Work on my poetry book continues, up to 31 poems done with just seven left on the list to write.  I am hoping to have the main writing completed by the end of March and then I’ll start on the editing process.  Haven’t really figured how I’ll do the editing, but I’ve got a month to work on that problem.

Another poem next week,

Andrew

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Friday Reblog – Pacific Paratrooper

Posted on 02/27/2015 by Andrew Reynolds

We all have blogs we read all the time and Pacific Paratrooper is one I always look forward to reading.   Here’s the current post:

June 1942 (3)

gpcox covers a lot of ground on history of WWII in the Pacific and related subjects.  I’ve long been interested in the history of that war.  My father served in the US Army as a radar man in the Aleutian islands as part of the Coast Artillery Corps from 1943 to 1945, so I have a special interest in the posts on Pacific Paratrooper.

It’s a great site to checkout, and he often has these great military humor picture.  Watch out for them, they’re good.

Till next time,

Andrew

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Wood Working Wednesday – not many pictures

Posted on 02/25/2015 by Andrew Reynolds

Not much going on in the wood shop this week.  I’ve been very busy with my writing projects – the book and my Lent series.  Both are taking more of my creative time than I would have expected.  I have managed a couple of things.  Three of the church mice were sold at the church auction – they didn’t think they could sell more.  We’ll find homes for the others as a couple of church members who could be at the auction have asked.

Last year I started on the filigree cross from the church’s tree wood:

progress so far - getting closer.

progress so far – getting closer.

Well, it got put on the shelf while we were doing the house remodel.  I’ve decided to put it back on the scroll saw and am working on it again.  I hope to have it done by Easter.  It’s a bit meditative to sit and the scroll saw and cut the fine patterns so I am making it a bit of a spiritual meditative exercise – I work on it for about 30 minutes a day.  I’ll post an updated picture next week.

The heart-shaped marquetry box isn’t doing so well, after cutting the marquetry I noticed a problem with the pieces I cut and now need to redo the whole thing.  I’ll get back to that after I finish the cross.

If you need me, I’ll be in the shop,

Andrew

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