Sisters

NaPoWriMo 2016 – Day 10

| Sandra Pavloff Conner

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I’m doing only cinquain during this year’s National Poetry Writing Month challenge, and since today is National Siblings Day in the U. S., this subject seemed appropriate.


BRENDA & ME IN OCEAN - EDITED

Cinquain # 10:  Sisters

Sisters
I have but one,
And always we’ve been close –
As little girls and ladies grown;
We’re blessed.

 

 

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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge — Orange

| Sandra Pavloff Conner

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange

To be completely honest, I dislike orange very much. But it is, after all, a legitimate color, and I found loads of it in my photos just waiting for its share of attention. So here’s my offering.

BRENDA & ME IN OCEAN - for orange challenge
My sis and me in the ocean a FEW years ago.
BARB'S PAINTING 1 - for orange challenge
A photo of an original oil painting (pardon the glare of the frame)
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Daylilies
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Trees at my corner
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Fiery Sunrise
YELLOW ROSE CAMEO HEART- orange challenge
Rose in cameo format for greeting card

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Well, I guess orange is okay — as long as it’s in small doses.

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Lucy’s Wish

| Sandra Pavloff Conner
My great-niece, Lucy, is 3 years old. She has two older brothers, but she has been wishing, this whole past year, for a little sister. When I was with the family recently, her mother told me how serious she is and how fervent is her wishing.
After I returned home, I was still thinking about little Lucy and her wish — and about how happy my sister and I were to have each other. We got along admirably together from the time we were mere toddlers, and have shared each others joys and sorrows all of our adult lives. I am so blessed to have her and cannot imagine my life without a sister.
So as my heart went out to Lucy, I began to write this poem. I gave her a copy, of course, but I thought I’d share it here as — well — just as a way of celebrating sisterhood.

FRILLY VINE - FLIPPED

LUCY IN CROWN - ARCH
Photo by Brenda Calvert

 

LUCY’S WISH

I wish I had a sister who could play with me.
But all I have are brothers; there are two.
A sister, though, would understand me perfectly,
And want to do the things I like to do.

We’d surely play with dollies and have them to tea,
And make believe we’re mommies, she and I.
We’d clean our house and cook our food so pleasantly,
And after working sit down with a sigh.

We’d both pretend that we were princesses so fair,
And dress up in high heels and crowns we’d wear,
And dream that someday we’d each meet a darling prince,
And, with them, happiness forever share.

I love my two big brothers; I’m so proud of them,
And to them with my love I’ll always cling.
But, oh, to have a sister of my very own —
Why, that would be an almost perfect thing!

FRILLY VINE - FLIPPED

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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sea # 2

| Sandra Pavloff Conner

When I think of the sea I remember, with great joy and nostalgia, the year my family and I spent part of the summer on the beach in South Carolina, USA. My sister and I were very young, but the memories of that trip, which included our parents, one grandmother, and one aunt and uncle, are indelibly recorded in our souls.

BRENDA & ME IN OCEAN - EDITED~

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