Ah… LOVE! ~ Bette A. Stevens
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for years suspended
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in the crevice of between…
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regret or forget…
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speaking or silence…
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numb silhouette safe between
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love and protection.
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shadows disappear
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in the white of fallen snow,
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each Spring forgives the
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impatient crocus.
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Time erases shadows and
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Love resolves the wounds.
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Ah… LOVE! ~ Bette A. Stevens
.
.
for years suspended
.
in the crevice of between…
.
regret or forget…
.
.
.
speaking or silence…
.
numb silhouette safe between
.
love and protection.
.
.
.
shadows disappear
.
in the white of fallen snow,
.
each Spring forgives the
.
.
.
impatient crocus.
.
.
.
.
Time erases shadows and
.
Love resolves the wounds.
.
.
.
Have fun, share with friends and download your own photos too…
Click on the puzzle to enjoy some jigsaw puzzling fun to celebrate National Puzzle Month with this beautiful monarch butterfly…
Then, download your own photos and create personal puzzles to solve and share with family and friends.
Here’s the link to a puzzle I designed using my cover photo from the children’s picture book AMAZING MATILDA…
AMAZING MATILDA Co Jigsaw Puzzle
Happy Puzzling!
Bette A. Stevens, author/illustrator of AMAZING MATILDA: A Monarch’s Tale and The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too!
Have fun, share with friends and download your own photos too…
Click on the puzzle to enjoy some jigsaw puzzling fun to celebrate National Puzzle Month with this beautiful monarch butterfly…
Then, download your own photos and create personal puzzles to solve and share with family and friends.
Here’s the link to a puzzle I designed using my cover photo from the children’s picture book AMAZING MATILDA…
AMAZING MATILDA Co Jigsaw Puzzle
Happy Puzzling!
Bette A. Stevens, author/illustrator of AMAZING MATILDA: A Monarch’s Tale and The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too!
Darlene Craviotto, author of “An Agoraphobic’s Guide to Hollywood – How Michael Jackson Got Me Out of the House” and so much more!
Meet Darlene Craviotto… She’s one amazing woman! ~ Bette A. Stevens
Writers/bloggers: Don’t miss out on this… FREE pdf e-book downloadable “Savvy Blogging for Time Starved Writers”~ Bette A. Stevens
My Grandma (Elizabeth Babcock) is one of the woman who had a positive and long-lasting influence on my life. She left us many years ago, but her memory lives on in all of us whose lives she touched. My tribute to a great woman and a wonderful grandmother:
Photograph of Grandma Babcock and me circa 1954.
Are you following Sacred Touches blog? Natalie’s posts are always filled with wisdom from The Master and from many masters of literature as well. ENJOY! Bette A. Stevens
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and Politician
One of my fellow bloggers commented today about the beauty in one of my posts and said she needed the joy. It was such a blessing to know that I had spread some joy in the life of another. So tonight I thought I would share some thoughts about joy. And since this week is A.A. Milne’s birthday I decided to use some illustrations from his book to help do that. Milne was the English author who brought so much joy not only to children but also to those of us fortunate enough to have read the Winnie the Pooh stories to our children.
Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~Richard Wagner, German composer
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Great tips for authors… I’m revising the draft of my first novel now. Thank you! ~ Bette A. Stevens
1) The opening sentence of a book/chapter/scene should be hooking and make the reader curious enough to read onward.
Like any man, I loved my wife, but these 3 a.m. suicidal thoughts were killing me.
2) The closing sentence of a chapter/scene should never let the reader slip in a bookmark. You need to make the reader want to keep going. Cliffhangers, uncertainty, new questions, they need to be built into that final sentence.
I worked best under pressure–they’d never know how much.
3) There is a power to 3 in using the same word, phrase or sentence structure. Don’t stop at twice, make sure it’s 3 times.
I didn’t want the end of me. Over a girl like her. Or a friend like him. Or a father like mine.
4) Write fresh. Find a new way to describe something. Your readers will thank you.
My jackrabbit pulse began to…
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