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By (Gypsie) Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Response to word prompt DAUGHTER
provided by The Daily Spur

My daughter born so soft and sweet
Two feet long with tiny feet
Scream and squawk you did not
Lifted your head without a flop

Let me see I could read in your eyes
No baby stuff for you would suffice
Walking around at six months old
Suddenly you had up and grown

Holding hands to cross the road
No way were you going to be told
to slow down and take your time
Not me mom, I can double-time!

And so it went and so it’s gone
my little girl had met someone
Now she has a lovely home
and her own little boy plays and roams

By (Gypsie) Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Dreaming of hot summer days
with you
on your sailboat
Followed by sweltering
summer nights
alone with you

Making breakfast together
hot kitchen
in our skivvies
Eating breakfast in our room
ocean view
a tropical breeze

Eyes meet across the dinette set
blazing lust
glazed undisguised love
Another day of sailing
liquid sun
on bare shoulders

Monday morning rises too soon
suitcases stacked
mementoes packed away
Deep kisses goodbye
long hugs
hands clutching fabric

Until next time we meet
so discreet
being together again
One last kiss and farewell wave
no tears
Refusing to cry

I am always late for everything – I am the poster girl for Tidsoptimism. Tidsoptimist, a person who’s habitually late because they think they have more time than they do. Being a tidsoptimist is more akin to having a zest for life and a drive for activity. It evokes the individual who is driven by passion and can’t say no because they want to do everything, be involved and befriend the world.

This is one of my favorite pictures of my grandson. We were living on Emerald Isle, NC and had some of the best times of our lives there. ❤️

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to Fandango’s one word prompt FLOAT

Floating upon warm water
cares and worries all melt away
Gentle rolling waves beneath me
bright summer sky above

Dolphins dance beside me
exuberant in life and being
Communing joyfully as one
Until to home they are called

Beneath my softly rocking raft
a world of wonder does exist
from tiny little arthropods
to the great and mighty Blue Whale

All live together in peace
and harmony swimming together
swimming alone
Mile after mile do they swim
Just to turn around and do all again!

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Word prompt provided by Sammi Scribbles

The veterinarian, an aged but still lovely woman with shockingly white hair pulled back into a sensible ponytail; eyed her furry patient appreciatively.

The vet examined the gigantic cat thoroughly, looking in his mouth; wanting to know everything about the massive feline. She asked to see it’s sleeping quarters.

The vet couldn’t help but laugh spying the sign above the cats cubby – Purr-Port.

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Three Things Challenge #899
Posted by pensitivity101
Your final three words for this week are:
MIND
STUBBORN
WILLFUL

A willful, stubborn child with a mind of her own, my parents would say; hanging their heads in shame or their palms in anger.

Such a rebel-rouser and wave-maker she is, the aunts and uncles would say; shaking their heads in pity and exasperation.

Your child is the most unyielding, obdurate and uncompromising teenager I have ever had the utter misfortune of having in my high school; the principal bellowed at my parents.

Why can’t you be like these other kids? My father asked, leading me out of the school by my ear; classmates jeering and pointing at the troublemaker.

The professor read her essay, absorbed her views and long-range plans when elected to public office; and stood in awe of this young woman he felt honored to have in his class.

Her love stood in front of her, awe and admiration in his eyes. He thanked her for being such a wonderful willful and stubborn woman with a mind of her own.

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Forehead on the chilled window
looking back in time
Different people different situation
same scenario – alone

Just when everything felt so right
falling into place
Words uttered in hushed tones made it so – clear

A deep breath to alleviate the pain
slicing through my chest
Realization of what I am
nearly too much to – bear

Peering out the frosty window
images of the past float by
Fluttering of distant feelings
Distant needs present – still

Silly girl now silly woman
expectations never change
Only places and the faces
and disappointment still – reigns

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to the picture prompt above provided by Rochelle

There is a small place
all off on it’s own
A shack to anyone else
but to us it’s a home

I cook and I clean
I read and I write
I wait for your visit
when the time is right

From the moment you arrive
until the moment you leave
This little house we are in
is ours if only make-believe

It’s here I’ll be each day and night
in this little house where I will stay
Reading and writing and waiting
for you until the fateful day that I die

This weeks prompt is to write about YOUR MORNING.
Haibuns are often personal reflections.

Provided by GO DOG GO CAFE – HAIBUN &
Donna Matthews

Haibun by Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

early morning rays
reflect slacks and chair
tinged by early morning coffee

A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky +
The Walrus And The Carpenter +
Echoes

prompts provided by
Poetics CARROLL CRUSH SAGA

and by Sanaarizvi

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

“I say!” Said he to me,
“Have you ever seen with your ears or heard with your eyes?”
As you can imagine, I looked at him with dubious surprise. 

“What say you?” Said I to him great suspicion in my voice. 
“It is but just a matter, 
just a little matter of choice!” 
Said he in reply. 

Echoes of stark white buildings
near fifty floors high
filled with stark white coats 
and a lake with a boat beneath a sunny sky came to mind. 

“Kind Sir,” I said with a smile 
unwilling to cause the man pain,
“Have you per chance been 
speaking to the walrus 
and the carpenter again?”

“Why yes I have how could you
tell?” His eyes bright with glee. 
“Well I can not lie
and I’ll tell you true, they’ve 
also been talking to me!”