SWEET RELEASE — (in photo and words) — CPC “Pick-Apart Poetry”

      SWEET RELEASE   My heart awakens to the flowers that bloom, the secrets of their beauty released as I slumber and dream of flight, life beckoning to me in whispers warm and free – dreaming to be, my destiny.   (c) barbara kausteklis 7-26-11 (c) photo barbara a kausteklis (bak)        […]

GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS — (in words and photo) CPC “Magic Monday/The Magic of Motion”

GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Each day as the sun begins to shine I go looking for one of my best friends, the one who is my inner child. And putting our heads together, we come up with some plans to get ourselves moving, to brighten up our day. We paint and we sing and we […]

ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE — A “Cheryl’s Pals Collab/BFF #107” Combo

I’ve always loved to go to yard sales and such, especially when my children were really young. We would find the best deals. These days, I still love looking, but am very content to just look and not bring anything home . . . . so I certainly couldn’t resist trying this week’s CPC Collab […]

LUNA OF MIDNIGHT DREAMS (in words and photo) — CPC Magic Monday/Full Moon Magic

LUNA OF MIDNIGHT DREAMS Luna rises to greet the Night slowly making her way resolute and sure, as she ascends and travels across the sky toward the magic hour of midnight dreams. Full moon harvest moon, golden and bright, finally losing herself within the light of the dawn and in passing says goodbye to the […]

Laughter

Laughter

IMAGINATIONS BEYOND — Drips of Ink “Surreal Picture Challenge/Sergei Aparin”

    IMAGINATIONS BEYOND   Adventures near and far and always beyond where I used to imagine I could ever go as carried so high and far away, fantastical balloons lifting me high above the usual I so often see to places beyond where I thought I could be, overwhelmed, yet inspired by all that […]

WITHIN THE IN-BETWEEN — A Cheryl’s Pals Collab/Saturday Share

      WITHIN THE IN-BETWEEN   BY BARBARA K   A CHERYL’S PALS COLLAB   I heard the words as they danced through my head in that in between time between asleep and awake, or so it seemed, for I really couldn’t say where I was or what time of day. Having lost all […]

Awaken to Love

Awaken to Love

Free the Eggs

Free the Eggs

INTO THE DARKNESS — CPC “Friday Fling Writes Around the Campfire”

      INTO THE DARKNESS   I hear them even now when the night is still, trailing off into the darkness amid hushed whispers, muffled shudders and muted gasps, the ghost stories and scary tales we told around the campfire as the flames licked the black of night, stories told at precisely midnight when […]