tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80316782024-03-13T06:56:48.252-05:00Broken ShellsPoetry, art, photography and friendsJudy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-49111530458519710162023-11-18T21:01:00.000-06:002023-11-18T21:01:19.069-06:00<p> I Often Dream of Secret Rooms<br /><br />I find this room I never knew <br />existed, an attic accessed by hidden stairs.<br />Big stuffed chair, slanted skylight.<br />A book I have never read <br />rests on a table casually<br />as if someone just put it down. <br />If I sit there quietly,<br />I can hear footsteps below,<br />back and forth,<br />searching. If I sit quietly<br />long enough, they go away.<br /><br />I step inside a dark closet<br />but find strange windows, curtained<br />with billows of illusion,<br />an bright space filled <br />with glaring whiteness<br />where pale shadows dance <br />across the ceiling--<br />a wedding veil room with northern light.<br /><br />I walk down the hall <br />carrying a laundry basket and right there,<br />between linen closet and bathroom,<br />a sudden door springs open.<br />Warm, woodsy walls<br />stretch impossibly long.<br />Chairs line up along edges<br />like a waiting room. Laundry forgotten,<br />I sit down and wait.<br /><br /><br /></p>Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-72459773169912100602023-11-18T20:47:00.002-06:002023-11-18T20:47:29.401-06:00<p> <br />Another Language<br /><br />I loved the bounce,<br />your voice off walls, surprising<br />every corner. <br />Coins of words <br />spun out and I scrambled <br />to fill my pockets.<br />Laughter jingled,<br />settled in.<br /><br />I drew the quilt<br />of your voice around me,<br />heard you translate lightning <br />into another language.<br /><br />So that now I am<br />reminded of a clap of thunder,<br />how it shakes the night with silence<br />when it’s gone.<br /><br /></p>Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-86697530917379924452023-11-18T20:45:00.000-06:002023-11-18T20:45:01.659-06:00<p> <br />An Abstract Artist Named Walls<br /><br />The woman in the lime suit<br />resembles a big bottle of Fresca.<br />Her male companion stares,<br />stunned by fifties memorabilia<br />mounted to wall as sculpture--<br />toasters, patent leather bags,<br />armless store dummies, Chevy bumpers--<br />all painted white. He tries to explain.<br /><br />This work is about blandness, the numbing white bread<br />of material existence.<br /><br />Secretly she thinks it’s all rather funny.<br />Like the next room, ablaze<br />ceiling to floor with a thousand colors,<br />hung with blank canvases.<br /><br />Emptiness, the infinite sadness of alone<br />against the gaudy backdrop of the world.<br /><br />She glances back as they walk through.<br /> <br />You know, she says,<br />I once knew a mortician called Earthman.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-81085159306955446342023-11-18T20:41:00.001-06:002023-11-18T20:41:34.013-06:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguei5cmrPEnT-_aKLgqjxCetGx-z1zfCMR2Sbwq13ng1TrqTTD8voo6RlnhwMB1tFIQwz8ej9fSJc0Z6NS388v2J_QGMaMRSZ97h-CUlml3wRRC6Ys9Eiuc8ek_4opXQKAOYBztuCOANgha_ys3nHbZXv6YR1mAoa-fzly-ka4G12U51y8uSf2/s4200/abstract%20face%20in%20sepia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Last 2 years have been very difficult health wise and I am only now getting back to normal. Have nothing new to post. And my hands are not letting me spend much time only the computer so it might be awhile before I have something to share. Anyway l am back.</p>Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-22986124884300698652018-12-06T01:11:00.001-06:002018-12-06T01:11:42.940-06:00Yellow Birds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-5752353139521257932017-09-11T19:51:00.002-05:002017-09-11T19:51:56.198-05:00Face with orchid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-24409164284853896412017-09-11T19:21:00.001-05:002017-09-11T19:21:19.538-05:00Pink Waterlily<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-41073462085255176412017-09-11T19:19:00.002-05:002017-09-11T19:19:50.253-05:00Looooong time ...no blog. I hadn't realized I had neglected this site so much!<br />
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<br />Judy Clemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933612494906219702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031678.post-42307630870790458422016-07-05T18:15:00.001-05:002017-09-12T18:40:46.985-05:00Gathering in the Animal Kingdom<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a shrewdness of apes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a romp of otters</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a drift of pigs</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a convocation of eagles</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a colony of gulls</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a party of jays</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a parliament of owls</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a gang of turkeys</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">an exaltation of larks</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a bask of crocodiles</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a nest of snakes</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a business of flies</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a cloud of gnats</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a murmuration of starlings</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a unkindness of ravens</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px; min-height: 13px;">
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<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a babble of fools</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a hammer of hate-mongers</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a trust of friends </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a gaggle of gossips</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a logjam of bureaucrats</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a confusion of witnesses</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a pondering of philosophers</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a count of survivors</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a certainty of bigots </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a frenzy of zealots</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a risk of gamblers </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a shout of protesters</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a patch of vegetarians</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a posturing of bullies</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a mirror of conformists</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a cover of liars</span></div>
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