Gypsie’s Wonderful World of Words

Author: Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

  • Photographs by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Cellpic Sunday

    Hosted by Journeys with Johnbo

    Nap-time – Photographed by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
    Clearwater Beach, FL Photographed by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

  • Counting Blessings

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    #2022PICOFTHEWEEK

    Hosted by photo challenge ofmariaantonia – Please join me in posting your own photos every Saturday.

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    Tala photographed by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

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    Koda photographed by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    3.

    My Garden – photographed by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

  • Engrave

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    In response to Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt – #289 – ENGRAVE in 23 words

    Engrave upon my soul
    love’s deep
    everlasting communion
    of heart

    Lest one day
    it’s taken away
    that I might remember
    love’s comforting warmth

  • Florida

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Weekend Sky #82
    December 10, 2022
    Hosted by Hammad Rais

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris Clearwater Beach, FL

    Red sky marks the setting sun
    the brilliant day is gone
    A short time I got to see
    your beaches and palm trees

    Florida my one true home
    my heart belongs to you
    Someday you will call me back
    back to where I belong

  • Grace

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    In response to the RagTag Daily Prompt (RDP) Word – GRACE

    Photograph By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris Tala and Koda

    My GRACE!

  • Do you ever see wild animals?

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

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    In response to Fandango’s prompt
    Do you ever see wild animals?

    There are certain times of the week that wild animals are more prevalent in my neighborhood. It’s during these times when I have to be extra cautious about allowing my grandson to play or ride his bike outside my fenced yard. I have to keep my dogs confined to keep them safe as well.

    One wrong move and they could be flattened. A loud noise or misconstrued sound and my loved ones could and probably would be viciously attacked.

    Over time, I have noticed that the intake of particular plants, herbs, fluids or other extraneous edibles, create a sense of paranoia and even prosecution in these wild creatures, therefore, I’m very careful to keep my beloved dogs and precious grandson inside when the inhabitants, of which there are many; start partying hard in the dilapidated house on the corner. Talk about wild animals!

  • Little Girl

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Photograph By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    In response to Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Pinkish
    From Sue W and GC

    Two years ago you came to me
    a tiny thing you were
    A little girl from a distant farm
    in need of a loving mom

    I did not know that you’d become
    so very important to me
    A furry bundle of energy
    looking more like a cub than a pup

    Energetic and so inquisitive
    yet so very shy and scared
    Born into an Amish family
    calm and quiet all you knew

    Like the sweet pink flowers
    you loved to pounce
    You blossomed into this beauty
    Without you now I would be lost

    My little pink harnessed new puppy!

  • Hotel Dilemma – A Silly Poem

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Picture by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Hot or cold
    Left or right
    Why can’t they ever
    get these faucets right?

    A giant tub
    A massive jacuzzi
    The water pressure here
    makes a girl so woozy

    My toes went in fast
    my shivering body followed
    Couldn’t wait to dip beneath
    it’s warmth and wallow

    The water’s reached
    it’s highest peak
    But it’s internal heater
    was on the blink!


    The liquid I had perceived
    to be roiling hot and luxurious
    Was cold as ice forcing me
    to exit quite uproariously!

  • Gravestones

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Image Credit – Mohamed Almari @ Pexels

    In response to:
    What Do You See (WDYS) #163 December 5, 2022 posted by Sadje

    During the worst drought in recorded history, the waters of San Francisco Bay dropped to levels so low, the wreck of the steamboat The City of Chester was finally located.

    Shortly after Chester was discovered, The NoonDay, an 1800’s clipper ship, The S.S. Selja, a workhorse cargo steamer which sank in 1910 and The S.S. City of Rio de Janeiro, a steamer carrying immigrants to the New World and sank in 1901 were also exposed to research divers. These divers, previously unable to penetrate the extreme depths and cold waters of the Bay, eventually located over 300 wrecks dating back hundreds of years.

    These lost and hidden undersea antiquities were treasured finds to the historians and scientists of the world; but no one had been prepared for the discovery of the Merpeople graves and gravestones revealed by the massive silt vacuums of the powerful underwater dredges.

  • Ashes

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    In response to bwarren’s The Sunday Whirl
    Wordle #58

    Light from the burning flame
    split     my world apart
    The walls fell around me

    Ashes snaked between
    a gap forged in my own
    numb longing heart

    Reaching out I touch
    the charred remains of my life
    the remnants slip through my fingers