The Seattle Salmon Tea Rose (#F6666)

The Seattle Salmon Tea Rose (#F6666)

Energy forced this play
its balanced mix of carotenoids
cued by nature’s understudies;
enough water, the wrong time
temperatures of unseasonable degree.

The tea rose stays in character,
not to be upstaged
by an empty house,
January suns suspended
from ceilings of fog
spotlight this minimalist stage
its leafless props
devoid of their audience of bees,

She
delivers her soliloquy
not unlike you or I, in
our own out of sync performances
blooming to false springs.

Jennifer O’Neill Pickering

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  1. JenniferJanuary 27, 2010 at 10:42 AM

    I Am The Creek

    Slow and easy
    in this fall of Han Lu
    mother of minnow
    swimming in nursery schools
    sleeping in cradles
    of algae and sedge.

    Dance floor
    to Damselflies
    gyrating turquoise unions
    to tambourines of leaves.

    Tomb to tribes of oak
    anointed in my waters
    last rites repeated
    in the currents passage.

    Riparian spring
    to hare and fox
    drunk in the tent of dusk
    and apricot light
    of a Samhain moon

    Place of wading
    into muddy beginnings
    and pools of clarity
    Changing my course often
    lithe as the water snake’s glide.

    Jennifer O’Neill Pickering
    Han Lu, Chinese Autumn called Cold Dew
    Samhain (sawin)Celtic end of summer celebration

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  2. JenniferApril 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM

    Help Loaves and Fishes to fund a shelter to house homeless people's pets.


    Who will Benefit?
    Loaves and Fishes, homeless people, & their pets


    How will the $7,500 be used?
    The money would be used to help build a new animal shelter at the Loaves and Fishes location to care for pets until their owners are able to leave the shelter. The money would help to provide necessary veterinary care, food, and other supplies and services to meet the needs of animal companions of Sacramento's homeless population. When you fall on hard times and the world turns its back on you, the only friend you may have left is your pet. Pets never judge you but comfort and love you just the way you are.


    Submitted By:
    Wright2u, Sacramento

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