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Moonlight Shadows

We
are
strolling
by moonlight.
Soft silver shadows 
glow on an inky blue ocean 
I love how they sparkle and glisten like tiny stars
Pirouetting gracefully as prima ballerinas with the ocean as their stage

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Regina Elliott Date: 2/18/2024 8:28:00 AM Beauteous and enchanting Fibonacci, Jan. So lovely in serenity. Happy Sunday. ~ Login to Reply

Christina Bowring Date: 1/31/2024 3:35:00 PM This is absolutely beautiful dear Jan. Stunning imagery created with your skilled chosen words. You are so, so good with these short forms. Much conveyed here. I especially loved the last line,’ with the ocean as the stage’ - glorious! Keep them coming! Hugs xx Login to Reply

Terry Miller Date: 1/28/2024 7:24:00 AM Excellent Fibonacci! Congratulations Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/28/2024 9:19:00 AM Thanks Terry:-) hugs jan xx

Robert Sidwell Date: 1/27/2024 9:59:00 AM excellent Fibonacci! A delightful read. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/28/2024 9:18:00 AM Thanks Robert:-) hugs Jan xx

Ink Empress Date: 1/27/2024 4:58:00 AM Dear Jan, this is stunning i love the cosmic vibe in this and the ethereal flow of your lines, so very descriptive and well crafted with beautiful imagery. I can see through your words woven in such eloquence, moon rays, pirouetting and the ocean as their stage, what a creative way to deliver moonlight shadows. I Felt like you’ve described my view right now: congratulations on your win: well deserved: thank you for sharing Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/28/2024 9:18:00 AM Thanks for your wonderful comment and my placement IE:-) I prefer to write humour but lately I am posting more serious poems on soup and focusing on saving my farty poems for my next book:-) hugs Jan xx

Paul Callus Date: 1/27/2024 2:13:00 AM You have written an excellent Fibonacci, and it is so smooth flowing. Jan. I also enjoyed Moonshadow ... you took me back nearly half a century ...the year Kirsty was born! ~ Regards to all and hugs // paul Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/28/2024 9:17:00 AM Thanks Paul, its a lovely song isn;t it:-) hugs jan xx

Duke Beaufort Date: 1/22/2024 3:27:00 PM Nice how you take a simple scene and expound upon it. We are so lucky to have beautiful scenes like this and the opportunity to read what you do with each one. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/23/2024 1:56:00 PM Thanks Duke xx

Andrea Dietrich Date: 1/22/2024 9:59:00 AM Wonderfully done, Jan Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/23/2024 1:55:00 PM Thanks Andrea x

Sara Kendrick Date: 1/21/2024 12:34:00 PM Ahh!!! Romantic. I enjoyed reading this one which could be a contest entry if so, it reads like a good contender to me. Way to go. Thanks for sharing it with us and for dropping by my page. Sara K Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/23/2024 1:55:00 PM thanks Sara:-) xx

Joseph May Date: 1/20/2024 2:49:00 PM I like how you ended this write Jan, Very nicely penned Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/20/2024 3:25:00 PM Thanks so much Joseph:-) hugs jan xx

Hilda Greenhough Date: 1/20/2024 2:20:00 PM I truly enjoyed your fibonacci. You described the sparkling ocean so vividly that I felt I was there. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/20/2024 3:24:00 PM thanks Hilda:-) hugs jan xx

Ilene Bauer Date: 1/20/2024 12:48:00 PM very beautiful, jan! lovely imagery... Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/20/2024 1:41:00 PM Thanks Ilene:-) hugs jan xx i do write the occasional more serious piece in fact I am keeping the poopy poems for the next book. in fact I wrote 11 limericks in much less than twenty minutes last week, once I get in the flow the poop wont stop lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Tom Cunningham Date: 1/20/2024 8:17:00 AM You've created a stunning image Jan, nothing more peaceful than a moonlight stroll. Good luck in the contest Tom That song took me back, 1970, yikes over 50 years ago. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/21/2024 10:45:00 AM news today is people are strongly advised not to travel with 80mph winds a possibility and it doesnt look like easing up much for a few days - hope its gone by my birthday on Thursday - we are due to meet a dear friend at my favourite tea rooms in Kirk Michael for the best cakes on the Island lol:-) we are having pre birthday meal at the pub on Tuesday as i know I'd not be able to eat much after afternoon tea on Thursday lol:-) hugs Jan xx Jan Allison Date: 1/20/2024 3:24:00 PM yeah she is here - i hope she heads off elsewhere and soon - she isnt very pleasant tonight, glad we stayed indoors - we were meant to go out:-( Tom Cunningham Date: 1/20/2024 2:44:00 PM Storm Isha heading our way with 80mph winds and heavy rain. Stay indoors Jan Allison Date: 1/20/2024 1:39:00 PM I thought the song was perfect to go with the poem, we havent been out walking at night as i was knocked for 6 with the virus before Christmas and then the weather has turned wintery and tonight we have yet another storm - I am sitting looking at the sea - it is wild tonight and the ferry has been cancelled yet again ! hugs jan xx

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 1/20/2024 7:53:00 AM - I love looking at the night sky on a clear night ... especially in winter - Beautiful poem, Jan :) - Congratulations on your book ... an exciting new year to you :) - hugs Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 1/20/2024 1:37:00 PM Thanks so much Anne-Lise and I am already working on book #2 - amazing for someone who was never a poetry fan in my youth lol:-) hugs Jan xx