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Writing Outside the Lines - Prompt 20

12/26/2015

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Here is my response to Prompt 20 - Writing Outside the lines.
Picture

Shiny Things

As the old adage
says ...

All that glitters 
is not gold...
Or 
Diamonds...
And
​Other multitudes
of shiny things...


All too often we look
for something more
something better
something different
to complete us...
our lives...

Or ...
So we think 

When what we really
want is right in front
of us all along

I know I need to
evaluate...
re-evaluate...
refocus...
many aspects of
my life for there
are too many
'shiny' things that 
tempt me...
cause me
to not think rationally...
to try to be
something ...
someone ...
I am not

Life is too short to
be distracted by
the glitz...
the glitter...
the sparkles...
the shiny things...

Don't be short 
sighted 
or 
Head-blind by
these things 
and
not treasure
the Diamond
you refuse to see
that was right 
there for you 
​all along ...

Copyright © 2015 Annie
Always…I wish you peace, joy and happiness, but most of all I wish you Love.
As Ever, Annie



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Writing Outside the Lines - Prompt 19

12/20/2015

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Picture

Where Do They Go?

Our minds are
​wondrous and amazing

All too often 
thoughts seem to
hide...
disappear...
remove themselves...

When this happens
Where do they go?

Do they hid in the
deep recesses of 
our minds...
become a memory
that reaches out
at just the right time
Or...
the wrong one

As I age, too many times
I grasp for words,
thoughts, 
memories,
and my body and mind
fail me

Is it a form of protection?
Or...
Something deeper,
darker,
more sinister,
conspiring to capture our souls... 

Copyright © 2015 Annie - Original Poetry
Always…I wish you peace, joy and happiness, but most of all I wish you Love.
As Ever, Annie

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Things Never Change

12/14/2015

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I am giving Weebly one last chance to see if I can make a post without ​getting the dreaded error message. I have been fighting this battle for nearly two years and am ready to give this web company the boot.

Rant over ...

Today is the three year anniversary of Sandy Hook. Things never change. Little has been said of today's anniversary anywhere...news media, social media, conversations ... how soon we forget ... how things never change ... how our nation now just accepts another mass shooting ... another senseless killing of innocents ... another crazed shooter ... yet, there are more guns than ever ... gun sales sky rocketed after the recent shootings in Colorado and California ... still those who block any type of gun reform (notice I did not say control) say "guns don't kill people" ... well, guns in the hands of the wrong people seem to create situations of unnecessary and unexpected mass death.

Below is th link to a post I made on a different website days after the Sandy Hook massacre ...

http://texasmusings.blog.com/2012/12/22/healing/

At the time, I was working in a large Central Texas school district that serves the largest military installation in the world, in a town that had suffered through two previous mass shootings. A town and a school district that displayed the reactions I voiced in this blog post.

Sandy Hook should never have happened, but neither should any of the other many mass shootings of the past ... the sad thing is that Nothing Ever Changes and We Never Learn from any of these unnecessary deaths in how to prevent the next one from happening.

 
© 2015 Annie 
I wish you joy, peace and happiness, but most of all I wish you love.

As Ever, 
​Annie


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