Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year


Happy New Year greetings for 2014 to all of my dear friends, followers who have become like family and my new followers. As the clock strikes midnight tonight may you share this special moment with those you love, whether it is with family, friends or with that one special person in your life. May the coming year be one of peace, good health, love and happiness. Please keep some love and compassion in your hearts for those who will not be with their families and loved ones to see in this New Year, those people who are alone and those who are homeless and have no-one to care for them.


My love and best wishes to all
Dianne ...

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Christmas Greetings


To wish you all a very Merry Christmas as you spend this special time with your loved ones, families and friends.
Thank you my dear friends for all of your kind comments and support throughout a year which has been difficult for me, your love, warmth and friendship has meant so much to me.
I have chosen these images for they have a feeling of coolness to them, the weather here is unbearably hot. I was hoping for a White Christmas, one day perhaps but for now these images will be just fine.

Love and best wishes, Dianne ... ♥

 Images courtesy of Internet and Free Wallpapers.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Places In My Heart



There are places in my heart
Where wounds wait to heal
The hurt cuts so deeply
I need a reprieve
Memories bring thoughts of you
But still you are not near
I cannot feel your presence
For me you are not here
The silence of the darkness
Alone with my tears
That feeling of exclusion
Because you are never here
You asked me to write for you
To alleviate your pain
But my words go unnoticed
They are written in vain
You said the heart is everything
Well yes it is to me
If you ever read my words
You would feel what they reveal
But your presence eludes me
And my words go unseen
So I sit in this room of wait
Hoping you will return
Out of the quiet and darkness
To feel your warmth again ...

Poem - Dianne Dawes ... ♥
Image from the Internet
 

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Love After Love


The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.



Derek Walcott
23 January 1930 / Castries / St Lucia
Image "Reflections in Mirror" Ferdinand Toussaint
Belgian Artist 1873-1955