Sisters of the Heart
We are sisters of the heart
More than siblings of the flesh
We're two hearts one spirit
An intricate delicate mesh
We laugh and we cry
We fight and we sing
We love and we hate
But always we know one thing
Deep down inside
Where no others can see
We're never alone
There's my sister and me
We're two of a kind
Two souls woven in love
To comfort one another
Sent from God above
And if the time come
One of us must leave
Must return to God
Oh sister do not grieve
Our bond will not be broken
Though separation hurts so much
We'll still be sisters of the heart
Still keep in touch
We'll be whispers in the wind
Sunbeams dancing in our hair
A twinkle in each others eye
With each other everywhere
We'll always be together
No matter what befall
Not even death can silence
Sisters of the heart after all!
© Russ Pergram
Friday, March 28, 2008
Sisters of the Heart
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Notes From March PLP At The Green Leaf...
Live music & poetry intermixed - not bad. Russ Pergram & I spent a good bit of time discussing writing in general, some specific points of technique on punctuation, and writing projects each of us are working on.
That's one of the fun things about the smaller readings like the Green Leaf PLP day often is. With less people than the large shows, we can have more interactive discussion mixed in with the poetry, and keep it less formalized and rigid. If you get thirty or forty poets in to read, you have to be tight on time limits and just read on and on, with not much chance to break it up.
Not that the bigger readings aren't good or appreciated - they are. They are just a different thing altogether. It's like apples and pears. They're both sweet and come from trees, often with green skins, but they taste different. This is why I keep on truck...er, reading.
Toward the end of the afternoon, we were talking to Shannon Prahl, one of the two sisters that own the Green Leaf Coffee House, our kind and wonderful host. (Jillmarie is the other sister.)
They have a lovely pair of pictures up on the wall from when they were little girls. One is clearly from Summer, one from Fall. Russ and I decided to write a poem about each of the pictures. Russ is doing Summer, I am doing Fall. I took a phone-cam picture of the two large photos on the wall and e-mailed them home for the two of us to work with. Below is my effort. I'll post Russ's work here when he has it ready. (And after he e-mails it to me.)
Thanks for reading, and Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Dan
Steps and stairs,
A house number by heart,
Cool breath,
Miss you, puppy dog.
So long...
Leaves out of sight,
Never out of mind,
All about the yard,
Were in neat piles raked.
Sign of a season...
A cameo moment,
Camera-captured forever,
"Who, me?"
"Not I wags the dog."
A smile and whistle for such innocence...
Scattered gold and brown,
Wind-blown in their time,
Rustles and frost long faded,
Like clouds in the sky.
They remember the leaves even still.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford - poem, Prahl family photo.
© 03/15/2008
That's one of the fun things about the smaller readings like the Green Leaf PLP day often is. With less people than the large shows, we can have more interactive discussion mixed in with the poetry, and keep it less formalized and rigid. If you get thirty or forty poets in to read, you have to be tight on time limits and just read on and on, with not much chance to break it up.
Not that the bigger readings aren't good or appreciated - they are. They are just a different thing altogether. It's like apples and pears. They're both sweet and come from trees, often with green skins, but they taste different. This is why I keep on truck...er, reading.
Toward the end of the afternoon, we were talking to Shannon Prahl, one of the two sisters that own the Green Leaf Coffee House, our kind and wonderful host. (Jillmarie is the other sister.)
They have a lovely pair of pictures up on the wall from when they were little girls. One is clearly from Summer, one from Fall. Russ and I decided to write a poem about each of the pictures. Russ is doing Summer, I am doing Fall. I took a phone-cam picture of the two large photos on the wall and e-mailed them home for the two of us to work with. Below is my effort. I'll post Russ's work here when he has it ready. (And after he e-mails it to me.)
Thanks for reading, and Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Dan
Green Leaf Gals Fall...
Steps and stairs,
A house number by heart,
Cool breath,
Miss you, puppy dog.
So long...
Leaves out of sight,
Never out of mind,
All about the yard,
Were in neat piles raked.
Sign of a season...
A cameo moment,
Camera-captured forever,
"Who, me?"
"Not I wags the dog."
A smile and whistle for such innocence...
Scattered gold and brown,
Wind-blown in their time,
Rustles and frost long faded,
Like clouds in the sky.
They remember the leaves even still.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford - poem, Prahl family photo.
© 03/15/2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
March PLP Reading at Green Leaf Coffee House
PLP Reading at Green Leaf Coffee House
March poetry : open mike - Green Leaf Coffee House Poetry Circle
The afternoon will start of with a poetry open mike and / or poetry and writing discussion, and end with co-writing a poem for December.
Date: Saturday March 15, 2007
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Saturday.
Location:
Green Leaf Coffee House, 2400 S. Eola Road, Suite G Aurora, IL
Poetry readings will ORDINARILY be held the Third Saturday of the month from 1pm to 4pm at:
Green Leaf Coffee House(located in Sun Plaza)
2400 S. Eola Road, Suite G
Aurora, IL 60504
630-851-8410
greenleafcoffee@sbcglobal.net
Attendance is free of charge and all poets and spoken-word artists are welcome to read.
Contact Dan Stafford at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Plainfield_live_poetry/post?postID=zbYmiUupdQukZzJQBTy7jUYPgiTkXvuQ7SHgEmGrheGcoN6Pkyu82oFbQtA3x4gisRNU7N48DTLMqBLr or 815-483-8878 or Jillmarie at Green Leaf Coffee House (greenleafcoffee@sbcglobal.net)
Sun Plaza is located on the far Southwestern portion of Eola Road about two miles before it intersects US Hwy 30.
Please forward this message to anyone you feel may be interested in reading or attending.
March poetry : open mike - Green Leaf Coffee House Poetry Circle
The afternoon will start of with a poetry open mike and / or poetry and writing discussion, and end with co-writing a poem for December.
Date: Saturday March 15, 2007
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Saturday.
Location:
Green Leaf Coffee House, 2400 S. Eola Road, Suite G Aurora, IL
Poetry readings will ORDINARILY be held the Third Saturday of the month from 1pm to 4pm at:
Green Leaf Coffee House(located in Sun Plaza)
2400 S. Eola Road, Suite G
Aurora, IL 60504
630-851-8410
greenleafcoffee@sbcglobal.net
Attendance is free of charge and all poets and spoken-word artists are welcome to read.
Contact Dan Stafford at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Plainfield_live_poetry/post?postID=zbYmiUupdQukZzJQBTy7jUYPgiTkXvuQ7SHgEmGrheGcoN6Pkyu82oFbQtA3x4gisRNU7N48DTLMqBLr or 815-483-8878 or Jillmarie at Green Leaf Coffee House (greenleafcoffee@sbcglobal.net)
Sun Plaza is located on the far Southwestern portion of Eola Road about two miles before it intersects US Hwy 30.
Please forward this message to anyone you feel may be interested in reading or attending.
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