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[FranC]

They are higher than bull city FYI

Different flavors than BullCity has though.

 

[Terri McVeety]

I figured I would share my very favorite death poem since I converse with it often . I wrote it for my brother as a birthday gift and like, I have written untold numbers of poems about death, but I called my brother to like apologize for not calling and he was like, "Yours was the call I most enjoyed missing. I always think on my birthday, "I don't remember asking to be born." It was too good not to use, so, I sent him this. He loved it. I love it too, but mainly because I ALSO managed to like, achieve my long held dream of using the word "photosynthesis" in a poem and making it WORK.

Happy Birthday

The way I see it, I do not recall requesting to be born,
all unaware, I rose to the top of the victimhood heap
shadow steps walked me, inexorable, coaxing me to sleep
to spring, reborn; far below now, faint and shifting in my eyes-- the earth.

No, I don’t remember demanding for my birth,
to be delivered to my unchosen mother my
similarly unclean and sinning sisters and brothers
to my absent and indifferent father; nor society, no
I did not request a single breath
or to give up the smallest winged feather.

I didn’t beg to for change, from a white goose in flight by instinct
into a self-aware shadow, my breath against a mirror, as my misty proof.

Why would I ask to be born,
when, perhaps, I rested, such unyielding and quiet marble
or, instead, a cloud adrift, creating shapes.

I did not seek this long, dark fall into disgrace,
as who, upon being asked, would seek a choice for failure or
for grace; who dares to answer such a call
from even the most high, sacred thing of all?
Who could acquiesce into a helpless, mewling baby
so dependent on imperfect beings, also lost? So, I list, less brave than
those who may have answered firmly to the question, “Yes.”

Though I did not cry out to be born, and though at
times lifelessness calls long and gentle through the marrow of my bones,
I also did not seek to be dead,
I desired not to live and not to die, at all.

Yet here I stand, steady on my feet. Each day
falls, sometimes restless, at other times replete,
and though I grew, loved and hated, fearless but small,
wrinkles collect at last like dander of pets, long buried under my toes.

Still, I cannot understand how I could ever give assent
to a maker who engraved upon my new sprung body both my birth and death date.

Although many whom I loved, on hearing the call, dove
steep over life, to nothing at all…. I will remember I
did not seek one lucid breath, one single step of this, yet
around me swirl all colors, shapes and sounds I am permitted sense.

And still, there linger days in which I pretend I do not recognize my name.

I wonder what inside this world would have changed? Would
my son have been born to another mother, would my
husband have sought to find a different mate, would he have been
happier or sadder, would he have chosen flight beside me
like a homing pigeon, streaking above, instead?

I do not know, but I know this. Each birthday I gaze around
and wonder, Did I ask for it? Or, did another fail before my place in
line, and I was beckoned forward into a life which sometimes doesn’t seem to
fit the shoes upon my feet? My head tilts weary as
I inspect my place. I’m tired and I sense the space,
the one, the sleeping self, the less weary indemnity we term “Heaven.”

Perhaps, upon my death I’ll beg my coffin and my resting ground for mercy
instead; to turn me to a tree—a tall and quiet oak, spinning carbon dioxide
into oxygen. My being enacting photosynthesis, sprouting leaves
and seeds; resting, my feet will no longer walk, penetrating deep
into the earth. I will not breathe, nor think, I may
remember, but I will not speak. For I will hold my breath,
my shoots will drink the water from above, the nutrients beneath.

I’ll grow, straight tall and free; and if there is a single thought at all
it will never be: Another birthday, to remind me, once afresh.

Anna

Anna you have a gift with words. Thank you for sharing.

 

[hittman]

What did you mix at the first time?

I don’t remember. It’s been too long ago

 

[Terri McVeety]

Once again, you’re not welcome here.

Why is this person so hateful???

 

[FranC]

I don’t remember. It’s been too long ago

Thought you might have wrote it down,

 

[FranC]

Why is this person so hateful???

I don’t know, Terri but I hope he doesn’t come back to our thread.

 

[hittman]

Thought you might have wrote it down,

I didn’t write anything down back then. I was just getting started and hadn’t joined this thread. I just remembered being disappointed in it.

 

[Terri McVeety]

Different flavors than BullCity has though.

Yes some, I have to use chefs often for ones not in the US. Matter of fact I have a chefs mia at the moment....

 

[Skeebo]

Hi everyone, so what's been happening since I've been gone for.... six hours?

Just kidding..... it may have only been five. I should have shared my rotten apple recipe earlier.

 

[FranC]

Hi everyone, so what's been happening since I've been gone for.... six hours?

Just kidding..... it may have only been five. I should have shared my rotten apple recipe earlier.

Yes,you should have

 

[FranC]

Yes some, I have to use chefs often for ones not in the US. Matter of fact I have a chefs mia at the moment....

A one shot?

 

[hittman]

I’m going to try to make myself mix sft of some new flavors tomorrow and get as many as I can into cases. I’m afraid I’m running out of room but hate to buy another case.

 

[NolaMel]

I need to go pick up a few things this weekend for all of us. But I don’t want to leave my house. Today I work in the yard. My son and I dug up the canna lillies I no longer want a few weeks ago but some came back. What a mistake planting those...they take over and I didn’t put them in the right place in my yard. Thankfully we don’t have to cut grass yet. More storms are coming tomorrow.

Have you tried pickup at Walmart? I’m getting my second order from them Monday. I had to get a time several days ahead, but you can add to your order up to about 12 hours before you get it (good or dangerous depending lol). No contact, delivered to the car there.

 

[NolaMel]

I heard MOLINBERRY red cherry is the best by a cherry “seeker”. Have you tried that one?

I just got it. Trying to pull up the courage to test it.

 

[NolaMel]

I'm using Euro Yellow Grapefruit, Pur Pomelo, Pur Raspberry, with a little LA Lemonade. The mix is semi-sweet, not tart, but I think the Raspberry is the culprit. Tried adding sour, that didn't help, may leave the raspberry out and try some Pur Sunset for the pineapple to see if it puckers up. Long way to go on this one.

You’re the first person I know who has pomelo. I bought it, but didn’t find much description wise. What do you think of it?

 

[NolaMel]

I’m betting the INW Just Berries is good. First time I’ve seen that one.

What’s the description? Sounds good...

 

[NolaMel]

Shhhhh

Yay! Dinner and s’mores at Bronzes house

 

[Terri McVeety]

A one shot?

No, just some flavors I can’t find here. It’s like a treasure hunt sometimes to find flavors for recipes I’ve found. Of course by the time I get them I’ve forgotten for what recipe. I’m normally a good list maker but haven’t done any for recipes to make. Changing that now!

 

[Terri McVeety]

Have you tried pickup at Walmart? I’m getting my second order from them Monday. I had to get a time several days ahead, but you can add to your order up to about 12 hours before you get it (good or dangerous depending lol). No contact, delivered to the car there.

I’ve used pick up since it started. Love it! I hate going all over the store. But I have to go in for a few things I want to pick out myself like bread, avocados, etc. and it’s a perfect solution for the current situation

 

[Terri McVeety]

I just got it. Trying to pull up the courage to test it.

Looking forward to your thoughts on it.