Poetry: For Pet Memorial Sunday
I’ll be speaking a little later today about “The Joy of Pets”, adopting again after a loss, and especially remembering my own two losses this year, Cookie and Kelly, along with all the other cats who...
View ArticleLet Our Hearts Fly
"Let Our Hearts Fly", poem and image © B.E. Kazmarski My heart is heavy with the news of the school shooting today. I’ve used my creative efforts in a poem and image. May we remember the innocent...
View ArticleRemembering, One Week Later: “Let Our Hearts Fly”
"Let Our Hearts Fly", poem and image © B.E. Kazmarski My heart is still in Newtown today, one week later. May we remember the innocent children, the adults who tried to protect them, and the families...
View ArticlePoem for Christmas Eve: Solstice Moon
"Solstice Moon", pastel with text, poem and illustration © B.E. Kazmarski A satin silent night, A silver path through my window, And silken paws paused to stay On the pillow next to me. Aside from...
View ArticlePoem: A Rescue Remembered
“Looking Out on the Morning”, ink drawing pen, 6″ x 6″ © B.E. Kazmarski Most of my cats, Mimi especially, join me at the big north window otherwise known as “Cat TV” to fill the bird feeders which...
View ArticleThings I Found in the Woods, Poetry and Memories
A delicate fern frond reaches for the sun from last year’s dried stems. Every year the winter opens up to a few days of warm intoxicating sun and mud in January or February, and I’ve run outside to...
View ArticlePoetry Inspired in My Backyard
A wonderful morning in the back yard with Namir and Cookie; this was just three days before Namir died. This morning I looked out on a tentative sun shining upon a light overnight snowfall, the...
View ArticlePoem for Sunday: Mewsette Ponders Green
Mewsette Ponders Green The world alight in green shades more than I have brilliant life given giving and glows in spring showers on all I love. A little abstract ode to spring to accompany a little...
View ArticlePoem for Sunday: Overheard in a Thrift Shop
The Menagerie © Bernadette E. Kazmarski This was a conversation between two people which I overheard, secretly taking notes, as I was browsing the overcrowded racks of a local thrift shop after...
View ArticlePoem for Sunday: Mewsette Ponders Green
Mewsette Ponders Green The world alight in green shades more than I have brilliant life given giving and glows in spring showers on all I love. A little abstract ode to spring to accompany a little...
View ArticleLucy
Lucy, Pink and Gray (on her favorite rag rug). Your petite silhouette lingers long, graceful legs tipped with soundless slender paws the waving tendril of a tail curls in a perfect circle as you pause...
View ArticlePoem for Sunday: Pawprints and Raindrops
Early on a rainy morning… This poem was inspired by Kelly, and a certain drizzly summer morning in 2009. Pawprints and Raindrops I am not awake but aware of the sound of raindrops whispering in the...
View ArticlePoetry: For Pet Memorial Sunday
The Butterfly. I’ll be speaking a little later today about “Loving Again After Loss, Why We Adopt Pets” at the Pet Memorial Sunday Ceremony by Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation and remembering again all...
View ArticlePoem for Sunday: Green Sparkle Ball
Giuseppe with his green sparkle ball. GIUSEPPE HAS BEEN CHASING his green sparkle ball all over the house lately, and so, I hear, does his lady love Mademoiselle. Purrrhaps there is some connection...
View ArticleVintage Photo: An Old Memory
“An Old Memory” I took the photo in 1983, just a few months after I got my first camera and I was only shooting black and white so I could learn how to use the camera. Even though it was black and...
View ArticlePoem for Christmas: Solstice Moon
“Solstice Moon”, pastel with text, poem and illustration © B.E. Kazmarski Solstice Moon A satin silent night, A silver path through my window, And silken paws paused to stay On the pillow next to me....
View ArticlePoem: A Rescue Remembered
“Looking Out on the Morning”, ink drawing pen, 6″ x 6″ © B.E. Kazmarski I love winter and snow, bare trees and angled sunlight. Visiting my little back yard daily in all weather reminds me of the...
View ArticleThings I Found in the Woods, Poetry and Memories
A delicate fern frond reaches for the sun from last year’s dried stems. Every year the winter opens up to a few days of warm intoxicating sun and mud in January or February, and I’ve run outside to...
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Mimi on the deck at dusk. Once Once A late snow And I with early kittens in my belly Hungry, thirsty, cold, Crouched, focused, Raced across this yard in the dusk, Chased that startled rabbit Nearly as...
View ArticlePoem for Spring: Mewsette Ponders Green
Mewsette Ponders Green The world alight in green shades more than I have brilliant life given giving and glows in spring showers on all I love. A little abstract ode to spring to accompany a little...
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