Don't forget our Cheer Up Creative Cafe Competition. Enter NOW!

[Jill]

Time flies by and it is our 2nd Creative Cafe birthday the 2nd week of November. That means prizes will be awarded for our Cheer Up Creative Cafe competition with $20 and 20000 Entrecard points to give away. So don't forget to enter with some cheerful blog posts, comments, photos, jokes, music or videos that you think will cheer us up in some way. Enter NOW! I'm going to start awarding prizes from November 7th and we already have some great winning entries. But there is still plenty of time for YOU to enter, Cheer US Up and win prizes. And then I will wish a Happy Cheerful 2nd Birthday to all our Creative Cafe members.

[Leslie Wilson-Rutterford]

Hope this makes your day! All the best, Leslie

[Jill]

Hi Linda

Thankyou for your entry. That reads like a very deep poem to me. Hope things are going well for you at the moment?

Bye for Now

Jill

[Linda Bennbinghoff]

I am submitting this poem to the contest. Linda Benninghoff



Whose Cries Are Not Music




I come down to the dark, torn pond
to hear the geese
whose cries are not music, but
catch in my ears:
the cry of wild things
who can make only one sound
and put into that sound
wing-beat, empty marshes,
clouds and their quests
for home.

They have traveled miles,
are far from earth
when I hear them,
but I think of a child
who has no words
and will cry without stopping.
as if everything
must begin in pain.

I can spend my whole life
healing it,
but find in the end
that love itself contains pain
though I do not give up feeling it,
as today I do not give up
hearing these geese
whose cries are constant,
and I pause
as their shrillness softens
and the light fades
and the night comes with silence.