tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post3339905426906646366..comments2024-03-16T09:08:24.325-05:00Comments on Wait! I Have a Blog?!: Dead MuleKathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-36958141699372464032012-06-04T16:26:41.715-05:002012-06-04T16:26:41.715-05:00Thanks, Sherry. And I do think this is truly the ...Thanks, Sherry. And I do think this is truly the avocado I've got growing now, not some random begonia or creeping charlie. But we'll see...Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-18945901614053938892012-06-04T14:22:22.636-05:002012-06-04T14:22:22.636-05:00"But beauty makes us/stumble"
LOVE that..."But beauty makes us/stumble"<br /><br />LOVE that! and the saga of the avocado. <br /><br />sherryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-75145118004706191552012-06-04T13:57:41.014-05:002012-06-04T13:57:41.014-05:00Thanks, Cathy and Hannah. Yes!--to homegrown avoc...Thanks, Cathy and Hannah. Yes!--to homegrown avocados. Wouldn't that be nice?<br /><br />Hannah, this is sort of a broken sonnet. It has some dropped lines that would be indented, but sometimes online mags have trouble with indentation, so this is a compromise that is fine by me.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-8775137997348326212012-06-04T13:52:33.727-05:002012-06-04T13:52:33.727-05:00Wouldn't it be wonderful to pick ripe avocados...Wouldn't it be wonderful to pick ripe avocados off a houseplant? Hmm, but maybe then we'd be too joyful to write poems. A little tree is quite good too.<br /><br />The poem is lovely and exotic, just like the white horse.Cathyhttp://cathydouglas.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-81293964930415042882012-06-04T13:48:12.859-05:002012-06-04T13:48:12.859-05:00Really interesting form in that poem...and fun mag...Really interesting form in that poem...and fun magazine, indeed!Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-40316459293855679712012-06-04T11:46:11.520-05:002012-06-04T11:46:11.520-05:00Thanks, Molly!!Thanks, Molly!!Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-22442835627301203472012-06-04T11:07:25.187-05:002012-06-04T11:07:25.187-05:00But beauty makes us
stumble, more than wine.
!! ...But beauty makes us<br /><br />stumble, more than wine.<br /><br />!! love these lines, and the whole poem. I also love the idea of a southern legitimacy statement, which, of course, I could never attempt --Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597990526818589453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-64814761804310988442012-06-03T12:14:47.039-05:002012-06-03T12:14:47.039-05:00Thanks, all!
As I look closely at the illustratio...Thanks, all!<br /><br />As I look closely at the illustration and at the sprouted leaf, I am suspending my disbelief (on toothpicks). It might be a begonia, somehow in the soil beside the pit. Expect another episode of Green Thumbs Up: A Reality Show on Gardening Haphazardly in Kathleen's Wild & Crazy Eden & Blue Ceramic Pot.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-65965485992980261012012-06-03T11:25:14.033-05:002012-06-03T11:25:14.033-05:00A beautiful poem.
Not so beautiful a mule.A beautiful poem.<br /><br />Not so beautiful a mule.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-26758000970444718262012-06-03T09:59:00.345-05:002012-06-03T09:59:00.345-05:00Great! This is one of my favorite journals.Great! This is one of my favorite journals.Karen J. Weyanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04870809238605691875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-82929867464153697002012-06-03T09:33:26.696-05:002012-06-03T09:33:26.696-05:00Loved the poem, but also love the story of the avo...Loved the poem, but also love the story of the avocado pit now sprouted. :)Sandy Longhornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735445958970512617noreply@blogger.com