Dog and Owlet Are Best Friends

Found this You Tube video about Ingo, a Belgian Shepherd, who was best friends with an abandoned owlet, Poldi.

Beautifully photographed by Tanja Brandt, a German wildlife photographer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNqgF3r6rc

 

An old poem retrieved from my files

Plane Crashes, No Survivors

grief

for ourselves

alone, so alone

a father, a brother

an uncle, a friend

raw pain scorches

no tears left

a gaping hole

where there once was a heart

regret

half-empty album

for daughters on bicycles

bridal bouquets

and grandchildren's hugs

novels half-finished

cases untried

missing puzzle pieces 

will never be found

memory

remembering Jim

a laugh sent by email

my Internet friend

who wrote gorgeous prose

quest for adventure

beyond the next cloud

exuberant pilot

will soar forever

Copyright 1997, Barbara Etlin, all rights reserved

In memory of Jim Osborne (1948-1997)

Signs of the Times, Part Two

 Remember the

clever billboards in front of a synagogue

that have been brightening up a nearby street?

The synagogue hasn't had any visitors since March,

 but that writer has been busy making drivers smile.

Here are more examples of sparse writing, 

where every word counts.

Thou shalt not covid thy neighbour's wife.

2020 is hindsight.

In my copywriting days, the layout came first and I had to fit my copy into it.

I had to count words. Sometimes I had to count characters.

That was excellent training for other kinds of writing.

I appreciate this writer's economy of words and sense of humour.