Category: Annie’s World

I set my paws on a mission….
And found myself somewhere on a no-name gravel road…
Moving by the instinct of my soul…
Yep, it takes courage to find the wondrous.

My paws covered in mud…
Following that feeling I know so well…
Feeling the movement of my little, aching bones…
I tried to vanish completely.

Then, out of the bush came a stray named Patch…
He was a matted black, white and brown…
He only answered my questions with one-word answers…
I pieced to get together something about a tear in his heart.

As I gave him a hug…
My soul lifted as if on Pelican wings…
He excommunicated himself from himself…
So, I put him back together.

My own worries disappeared…
There was now another life in my empty bag…
As I headed home, I realized…
That the more I do for others, the happier I am myself.

I love you,

Annie

At the center of all happiness is truth…
There is no bargaining here…
No rationalizations that will make it different…
No magic beanstalks.

Come, let’s have tea and talk some more…
Judgment has no place here…
We can learn about each other by sipping and talking…
And sharing secrets we both can understand.

We can watch the stars throw hope across our oceans…
Arrange the proper sequence of dashes and dots…
Look reality dead in the eye…
And discover that most of our worries are only air.

We can stop blaming others…
Look at each other and ask…
Do you love me my friend?…And hear in return, “Yes, my friend, I do.”
Doesn’t life feel so much better next to someone you love?

So today, let’s stop noodling for crawdads…
Bobbing around like plastic ducks…
Let’s cling to truth…
And find happiness.

I love you,

Annie

Let’s make this new season a season of love…
Open a brand-new side of our lives…
Squint together through the blur…
And soak-up the soft and yielding colors.

Did you just give me a wink?
Ah, so you are feeling it too…
I knew that the awareness is within you…
And you welcome the change as much as me.

The other question is….
Why do so many others dislike change?
To yell over the pattering rain?
And then change their smiles to that crooked and awkward look?

To those people I say, “It’s going to be okay!”
I know the owner of this joint…
She is always there at the changing of seasons…
Waiting to welcome you, with hugs and kisses.

So, never wish for the sun to get stuck in the middle of the sky…
Swim to the light through the dark stillness…
Stop looking through the rear view…
And choose a season of love.

I love you,

Annie

No one is born pompous…
Wanting to make their fortune on the backs of the unfortunate…
As if born 200 feet above the earth…
Looking down on a lesser species.

No one arrives into this world with their resume complete…
Real success (relationships) is only obtained by one means…
You have to wag your tail and bounce your way into another’s heart…
Come on! I know you can bounce!

Anyway, that’s how I prefer to do it…
Everything in kindness…
Even though, I only know one word (woof)…
My love is immovable, consistent, and eternal.

The pompous act like there is some kind of power outage…
And the light of God is only on them…
Rolling around this earth like thunder…
Never a speck of dust beneath their nails.

Let’s together move away from all that and into my Utopian dream…
It’s a hard place to find…
Unhurried mornings and idle afternoons…
And positively and certainly, more awareness of life.

I love you,

Annie

I just went out for a walk, and….
I found my paws in perfect balance…
All the landmarks familiar…
Papa rat….look out!

My body slightly tipped by the wind…
I’m attached to nothing…
I’m like a dresser with no drawers…
Yet, there seems to be no end to my capacity.

Ah! A piece of a donut just on the path!
Who needs cutlery!
Gobbling loudly, then licking the glaze off the sidewalk…
The sidewalk feels like sandpaper on my tongue…
But you humans have a saying, correct? No pain, no gain!

Thinking, it’s time to stop running with the pack…
Separate myself from all those growls and sneers…
Pack those memories and put them in the back of the closet…
Because the last time I lay with mangy pups, I woke up with fleas!

Today I’m going to simply enjoy this kingdom of earth…
Imagine, everything smelling like freshly baked pie…
Realizing that you and I are hewn from the same rock…
I touch my paw to my heart.

I love you,

Annie

I used to climb trees all the time…
Vanishing into the clouds…
Closing that impossible gap…
And then my butler cut my nails!

I felt like I had slow, silver wings…
Stepping away from this serious world…
Tender and pliant, not brittle and dry…
The place where softness always prevails.

Looking down I could see the ground littered with the pages of guilt…
All written with similar composition…
Making the earth a universe of ghosts…
Shame being the lie at the base of it all.

It is the natural things that bring you back home…
Put the flesh back on weary bones…
Helping us to sort through the messes we have made…
Yep, we all have different poop to shovel…
Mine smells terribly of dog.

Stop! Please stop trying to fight the tempo of your heartbeat…
This is not a game of racing back and forth…
Instead, this is a game of loaves and fishes…
Multiplying love throughout this world.

I love you,

Annie

Did you know that you can give another person purpose?
Unchain them from their terror?
Fix their busted hinges?
And watch their door to life swing wide open?

Yes, you can release them into a land of poetry, nature, and unending art…
You can be their shelter from this malevolent world…
Bring them into the same joyful place where you dwell…
A place where they feel safe and no longer afraid.

Sometimes it takes just a feather to knock someone down…
A sharp tone, a thoughtless reply…
Off balance they live in the same city, but a different planet…
You can bring them home!

But you must take the first step…
Blunt the edge of your voice…
Touch, only touch…
And then watch their fear in their eyes melt away.

Then you will be fused together like welded steel…
You can walk hand in hand…
Just remember the way that another touched you…
And gave you purpose.

I love you,

Annie

Did you know that we are eternal friends?
To see our love clearly you first need to take yourself off the clock….
Stop needing an answer for every question…
And look through the golden layers of my eyes.

You say, “No! Everything changes!”
“It is impossible to hold on to anything in this world!”
I return, “Except true love…”
It lasts forever by some overmastering power.

In your life you have discovered that there are parts of love you never knew existed…
And sense that there are some parts yet to know…
You are like a collector of art getting closer and closer to their goal…
Striving to find that final piece.

But look! Eden’s gates are open once again…
Love is all around you…
The hummingbirds adorned in their beautiful petticoats…
The too many shades of blue.

So, come with me my friend and let’s go into the waiting elevator…
Jump on board with one giant leap…
Don’t worry if you feel slightly grubby…
You’ll soon be perfectly clean.

You are my friend forever!

I love you,

Annie

Today let’s walk away from being frantic…
Shed that skin of leather…
Sing like birds sing at dawn…
So that our songs can carry further.

Wouldn’t that be lovely?
Like an extra scoop of butter on a warm biscuit (yum…)
A cause for celebration…
Living today with no wounds, no sores.

You know, this is up to You and You alone…
Only You are hampering You…
It’s time to give yourself a kiss…
Then it’s time to kiss the poor.

There is no debt on your balance sheet…
You do not have to repay the world a thing…
Your guilt has been placed on you by those who want to control…
Squashing you, like a flattened cardboard box!

Guess what?
The box can be easily fixed, and you can once again be whole…
Stop listening to the words echoing the past…
And take a step with me into a brand-new day.

I love you,

Annie