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Shh Mama Is Painting Today

My rooms are a wreck, total disarray. I have clothes that don’t fit – some other day. My garage has critters, mice of course. I am painting today – a giant pink and orange horse. I have three junk drawers in my shamble of a kitchen. Paint us! Yell three faeries, and I don’t want them bit’chn. It is five thirty p.m. and my husband is fixing supper for himself. I just finished my third painting; it is drying on the shelf. My car is out of gas, this can be done another day. My cat needs fed, he is meowing away! Shh! I tell him, Mama is painting today. My husband who professes to not like cats is running his way With shrimp, lobster, and tuna. What can I say?

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Date: 6/14/2021 12:42:00 PM
paint on, caren! sounds like everything else can wait, but glad you found the time for this poem...
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/14/2021 9:57:00 PM
I am stopping long enough to throw down ten poems a day, but that is it. None of those 30 poems a day days right now. I am all about slathering my canvases with joy.
Date: 6/14/2021 9:46:00 AM
Caren, I envy your nonchalance! I am pretty OCD when it comes to an orderly house. My friends can't figure out how I do it. It comes naturally...I'm weird!
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L Milton Hankins
Date: 6/15/2021 12:01:00 PM
sounds good to me.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/14/2021 9:58:00 PM
I have read somewhere that you cannot be as creative as you want unless you have clutter and mess. Clutter and mess gives your imagination permission to play. I am going by this always now.

Book: Shattered Sighs