Creative Corner (words)

[JeepGirl118]

Well hey there, Handsome Fella! Well. Hate to ruin tradition here buuuuut, I think we'll be passing FAST through that backwards town. In fact, we're not even going to get off 10 for gas in that town. Are you kidding me....Mr Jeep doesn't want to hear me giggle and make fun of them for the next 450 miles afterward. LOL Maybe we'll run into a new adventure to keep me entertained!! (Not so hard to do, btw)

[Summering]

Originally Posted by Summering

This Santa is walking a sled of logs, just finished today.


This Santa is huge over 16" .......Made from a Cypress Knee, these grow in
the ground area down south.

This one is a jointed Santa.......the dancing Santa we call him.


This is a new Santa we have designed with a walking stick and sidebag.

Gosh, so just a few of the new ones we have done. I like everything but processing the pictures because I really need a better camera
Some will be on Ebay after the holiday.......

Finally did that today.......got these fella's on......Big job.......and I need a better camera....Santa do you hear me???????

[Northwoods Voyager]

Summering, your Santa's are wonderful..I collect Santa's. Have them set up for Christmas every year. Put them i mainly one place on a mantle. Little bitty ones to 20" tall, wood, ceramic, porcelain, all types, sizes, mystical, Father Christmas, etc. I think I really need to buy some of yours, I do, I do.

[Summering]

Thank You.............There on line........but, I don't know what Karma I have as I don't seem to get anywhere on line posting them.........LOLOLOLOL
People who see them love them......and now they are all over the Us and even Europe.
I LOVE , the new ones........The Bishop is to die for. ( I fell in love with him while painting......Whooooow don't know if I should be in love with the Bishop)
I love the sled guy too. Pulling the wood......( the second we have done of that one)
I keep for myself the cottonwoods.......For my mantle as they are tall, tall........
I'll have to post that picture if I find it. All lined on the mantle. Tall 16 to 20+
I have to order more cottonwood from out west, sometimes coming from Montana.
It is made from the bark of the cottonwood tree.
I love them, the more I paint them........The most mystical one this year is the santa with side bag ,and holding a walking stick with a mystical globe on it.
It is fun.........I have something waiting for one now. A man wanted a hunter with a bow and a deer behind him. We had the hunter ,so just made the bow, and deer. ( poor little guy) It is looking good. But, when they come to life is pleasing....
Then it goes in the mail to the requester.

[poconoproud]

Just found this thread and I love northcountrygirl poetry. I write myself, and I appreciate your writing style and am eager to share my own writings.

NIGHT SONGS
Daylight fades
and it's chaos wanes
as darkness falls around me.
The evening is quiet ~
still ~
until the Night Songs begin....

An orchestra of crickets
chirps a constant rhythm,
and are never out of tune.
Such skilled musicians as these
keep time under any kind of moon.
A baritone croak heralds
a toad in my garden,
and my cat meow's in surprise.
She turns her head towards it
and I see the glow of her eyes.
The score changes tempo,
as wolves in the distance
belt out their lunar howl.
Their sad ballad is questioned
by the whoo'ing of an owl.

Nocturnal harmonies surround me,
like nature in stereo.

There's the duet of two dogs,
and the sudden cacophony
of a chorus full of frogs.
I hear the drone of bees
riding home on the breeze,
and the rumble of thunder
from the storm we'll be asunder.

The Night Songs fill the sky ~
with their Night Time Lullabye.

[northcountrygirl]

poconoproud! That is awesome. Thanks for joining the thread and sharing your work. I love to read works by other poets and your's is wonderful. Welcome. and thank you for the praise.

[Northwoods Voyager]

Thank you poconoproud for sharing your work with us. Very expressive and creative. I like the subject matter, being a critter in the woods, myself Thank you again and look forward to more

[poconoproud]

Thanks so much, northcountrygirl and Northwoods Voyager. That means a lot. Unfortunately, for the poet - there aren't a whole lot of avenues for getting your work read or published, so I usually only have friends and family as an audience. I have decided to post another poem, in honor of Rosa Parks, because yesterday was the anniversary of her heroic stand against seperatism.

An Ode to Rosa ~

"I will not give up my seat."
was an honorable feat,
and a moment bitter-sweet.
Face blushed with heat,
she decided no retreat
and was not discreet
that she would not give up her seat.
Their eyes did meet -
his full of conceit,
as he ordered her to her feet.
She would not retreat.
His temper raised in heat,
as he demanded her seat.
Her anger could easily compete,
but still calm, demure and sweet,
said "I will not give up my seat."
All her life, she had eaten defeat,
and no longer defeat would she eat.
She stood up, but only to his conceit.
She knew she had to again repeat,
"I will not give up my seat."
She would not be beat,
or bow to his conceit,
or be brow beat.
No more would she stand on feet,
and acquiesce her seat.
The police arrived in fleet,
to remove her from her seat,
and parade her on the street,
in their infinite deceit ~
but it was their crushing defeat!
The pride of her race was replete,
her reputation was footed in concrete,
her inner freedom was finally complete,
because she refused to give up her seat.

[940]

I like that poconoproud...I'm surprised you can't get that published..wow..good stuff on here and it's always a treat to read and see the talented work of others.

Summering, I love your Santa's too..I need to find where you have those on eBay..

[Northwoods Voyager]

poconoproud...excellent, again. Very expressive and meaningful. I hope that you have done 'something' with this!!!

Oh, if anyone has the time or inclination...pop on over to the Missouri forum and go to 'a little Cd poem, etc. post #13. I had some fun over there...