my heart bows to the passing of 2009
like the setting sun
which baths the world in tender
vibrant color
wings of light unfold
gliding into 2010
what will each day hold
certainly a heart
that honors
a sentient
life
~
To all my friends in this wonderful blogging realm
I wish you a year of dreams come true
may your path be clear
may grace fill your journey
may joy fill your days
may vitality be yours
wishing you the courage to honor
the whispers and wings of your heart
Happy New Year!
Visit OSI to read the wonderful poetry for the prompt: Wings
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May we all have that courage. Indeed.
ReplyDeleteYour blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
ReplyDeleteThat is rich and definitely something to think about. The photographs compliment your words so beautifully!
ReplyDeleteGreat poem for the new year! I hope you have wonderful 2010 also! Keep up the wonderful work! :)
ReplyDeleteOh thank you...you are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAnd may the same be true for you in 2010. xJ
ReplyDeleteMay the year 2010 be an amazing one for you as well. Beautiful photos, and the poem is very inspiring for today and always.
ReplyDeleteI've enjoyed "seeing" through your consciousness in 2009, Tammie. I'll let you be my spirit guide for 2010! Please tell me about the second photo - I've looked at it for a long time - I can see the feather but what else? (PS I like the way you fashioned your first poem to "point" to the second image.)
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful benediction for the new year! As always, your poems and photographs encourage me to lift my eyes and look around. Wishing you all the best in 2010!
ReplyDeleteBarb,
ReplyDeletethe second photo is a close up of a flicker bird. They have so many colors and polka dots too!
namaste' dear lady
Tammie: What a neat sunset, I hope you have a great 2010.
ReplyDeletethanks for your beautiful words and for you the same!
ReplyDeleteyvette
All that and much more back to you Tammie. Blessings rain on you for 2010. Much love
ReplyDeleteThank you Tammie ... and may your wishes for us return to you a-thousand-fold!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteRosa
what a beautiful message for 2010! thank you :)
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Tammie. Top photo is a wonderful contrast to the wintry Middle Earth photo in the last post.
ReplyDeleteWhat an uplifting message...thank you, and I wish you a Happy 2010 also!
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful words Tammie. you always do such a lovely job of matching words and views.
ReplyDeleteLovely words. And a Happy New Year to you.
ReplyDeleteWonderful, beautiful words and pictures to match! And, yes, may we all have the courage! Wishing for you in this new year much love, laughter, beauty, peace, health and prosperity. Enjoy, Tammie!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
Oh, Tammie, those peachy feathers are just beautiful! Filled me with joy. Happy New Year to you too! :) - Kristy
ReplyDeleteI wish your 2010 is a happy and healthy one. What will each day hold? That is the question, and one I hope will be answered in beauty and profound hopefullness. My best, Rob.
ReplyDeleteoh wow Tammie!!! this is so beautiful....and what a wonderful read...this is exactly what I needed to finish my painting today!!!
ReplyDeleteWishing you a wonderful 2010 and I look forward to seeing more of your amazing posts!!!
Hugs
Diana
Tammie! This is a beautiful, touching post! I love how you bow to the passing year... you are a lovely poet. Your photographs too are so moving. Gorgeous setting sun... reflections and of solitary bird and sun... so inspiring. Your detail feathered friend and words of honoring sentient life. I am done for and must look no more tonight. Thank you! May all your dreams be realized in 2010. I am so glad to have found your world and look forward to your inspirational postings. Carol
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos, especially those pink feathers. Beautiful words and such a beautiful blessing you've wished for us! Thank you! I'm sending you my wishes for all those things and more. May your year be brimming with blessings and goodness!
ReplyDeletexoxo
Serena
Oh, thank you dear Tammie...You are such a darling--a gem.
ReplyDeleteYou are an inspiration to me. I love your photos and your poetry. I shall write some soon...
(grin)
((hugs))
Beautiful post. Best wishes to you for 2010. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful wishes.
ReplyDeleteI love how the colours of the flicker's feathers are so similar to the sunset. Beautifully done.
All the very best for you in 2010 and beyond.
Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for the New year!
Oh...what a perfect start to my new year...your words are beautiful!
ReplyDeletebeautiful - have an awesome 2010 and beyond :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your wonderful wishes.. Same to you :))
ReplyDeleteA very hopeful message to everyone here at OSI...:)
ReplyDeleteI wish you the same in this 2010, and may you realize your dreams, soar high like an eagle to unprecedented success!
Hello Tammie, Beautiful photos, and certainly I hope to keep and develop further the courage to honour the whispers and wings of my heart. To you also I wish a New Year full of happiness, peace, good health, courage and success in all you do.
ReplyDeleteWith love,
Janice. x
Bonne année Tammie Lee, happy New Year and nothing but wonderful moments for you and yours.
ReplyDeleteA very beautiful message...Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Ninni
You are such an inspiration with lovely colors and thoughts on your pages. Wishing you a very fine 2010!
ReplyDeletenice connections between ideas and images...!
ReplyDeleteThe same back to you, Tammie. May you have a year of even more beautiful images.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shot and words to glide into 2010! Wishing you all the best for this year, Tammie :)
ReplyDeleteMay the warmth of your southern exposure give you charged batteries to light up the Big Sky of your Winter White Home.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and lovely shots !! Nice and fantatic !!1
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to a New Year of Spirithelpers!
ReplyDelete- Brian
You were absolutely right! It was the 365th post, and the last one in 2009.
ReplyDeleteIt was illustrated by a self-portrait from a beach in Porto de Galinhas in Brazil. I also wrote that the winter is not really my season. I prefer sunshine and moderate heat :)
Happy 2010 Tammie. Thank you for continuing to show us a refreshing perspective on life and nature.
ReplyDeleteWonderful snaps & beautiful words.
ReplyDeleteWish you Happy & Prosperous New Year.
Thank you so much ... that courage is just what I need in my life these days. Beautiful images ... wonderful words ;-)
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,
Hi sweet Tammie, thanks for your wishes. I do hope each and every one you send out to us will come true to you and your blessed heart.
ReplyDeleteLove Dagmar
Thank you for these wonderful words! I wish you a wonderful new year. I hope you get a year of joy, happiness, good health and lots of good memories. I'm looking forward to follow your blog in 2010:-)
ReplyDeletethank you very much and hope the new year will bring more joy for you.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year:)
ReplyDeleteAll the best to you too and your amazing creativity!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Tammie. Thank you for your concern for us as told in your lovely poem.
ReplyDeleteI do hope I don't disappoint you as you included me in your wish. My heart doesn't wisper and I too wish it had wings.
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Oh how beautiful, wishing the same for you too!
ReplyDeletexoxo
Hi Tammie...I found an Angel Oak Tree...and wow...the history of this tree is amazing....I thought you might find this interesting...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.angeloaktree.org/gallery.htm
Have a wonderful day!!!
Hugs
Diana
Thank you for the New Year's wish...to you as well. Your poem (and images)was lovely. Perfect symbolism for one year ending and a new one beginning.
ReplyDeleteMy best wishes for 2010. And a thank you for your lovely words about my drawings.
ReplyDeleteYour photographs always capture such beauty.
millyx
Hi Tammie!!!thank you for that sweet message!!! you are so kind....I am always looking at learning new things...I think it keeps me busy and helps with my creative projects!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day!!!
Hugs
Diana
Tammie,
ReplyDeleteThank you from the deepest part of my soul for being my friend. What a beautiful being you are!
Your new years wish touches me. What a beautiful blessing to send out into the world. May your 2010 be filled with beauty, joy, and grace as you Honor your highest truth in every thing you do. Your soul shines bright to light the way for so many around you!
What beautiful lines and wishes! The same wishes go to you too!
ReplyDeleteWonderful post!
wishing you a happy nd beautiful 2010!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the good wishes. Right back at you!
ReplyDeleteSuch radiance in your words! Completed by the deep hues of the setting year and a flicker’s festive plumage.
ReplyDeleteNew Year’s blessings to you, Tammie Lee. May your dreams grow wings. May you continue to inspire.
And may we all have the courage to breathe life into vision.
Beautiful Words , Gorgeous Sunset and I Love the feathers ~ I hope 2010 brings you the same Blessings!
ReplyDelete~ Warm Hugs ~
Nice Shot as always... :)
ReplyDeletevery happy new year to you and all of your friends and family members :)
Your exquisite sunset over the ocean reminds me of Gleneden near Lincoln City in Oregon--we spend time there every year...and each time we are there the sunsets are just as you have captured.
ReplyDeleteThere is something so wild and untamed, beautiful--in a sunset over the seas. It changes moment by moment--and the ocean claps her hands.
Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWish you a great new year!!!
Wonderful sunset! :)
ReplyDeleteI have the same wishes for you.
A Happy 2010! :))