Be Happy!

Be Happy!

So much to be thankful for.

Be Happy!

Always bring a smile to your face a twinkle to the eye.

Be Happy!

We chuckle we dance we laugh the night away

and then we start again the next day.

Be Happy!

Nothing better to see than a happy face

with a gigantic smile across your face.

Be Happy!

For life is to short not too.

~Ranie Patridis

The Mask

Tis night the true democracy

When as the day

Like some great Monarch

With his train has passed by

In regal pomp and splendor.

The stars above shine bright for all we know

along the Milky Way.

As jostling crowds in radiant disarray

pass down Broad Boulevard in pageants vast.

We dance we play we parade down the street

wearing our bright colors to our delight

Over our face we wear our mask

To cover our fears

Disguise the sadness

The loneliness within our soul.

Hearing the music in the distance

The laughter of those along the way.

Hiding behind the bright colors

We dress to the occasion we laugh, sing, dancing along the way.

When daylight comes into the shadow we go

Letting our mask fall to our side

Looking inside knowing that for a time

We thought we were happy our fears at bay dancing along the way.

Each one of us playing our part in the

Mardi Gras of Night

Ranie Patridis

In The Foggy Mist

Early in the morning

as the fog dances in

there is a feeling of quietness

that leads to a eerie peacefulness.

The trees are grateful for the mist

they graciously extend their limbs

reaching, reaching for the dew drops

from the falling mist.

In the early morning in the foggy mist

if you look carefully

very carefully

you may see a Trinity Fairy

dancing in the mist.

There she is, do you see her?

Dancing away in the mist.

Funny about the early Foggy Mist

it lets your imagination

works it best.
~Ranie Patridis

Bobby the Cat

Be still, don't move

My mistress may never see me

Cause I am so still.

As I hide here beside this plant

Thinking  and wishing this

plant would get out of my face.

Sit still don't move a muscle

I just might not get caught

There she goes off into another room.

Boy I hope she stays in there for a while

I'm itching to put my paw in one of these planters.

Ooops!

She is back what is that in her hand?

As she puts it up to her face

Calling my name

I look up in disgust

As a flash of light came from that box

She holds up to her face

Dog gone it I'm caught!

Story n Photograph by
Ranie Patridis

Story of an Acorn

I am a little acorn

so proud and strong.

When my time comes

I may choose to become a Oak Tree

or

food for the forest creatures great and small.

I come from the Oak Tree who graciously

spreads those towering limbs above for shade.

Little by little as the acorn said.

I am healthy and strong a bit proud to say

as I slowly sink into my mossy bed.

Hidden deep in the earth away

hiding from all by day.

As I grew getting stronger each day

My roots grow hidden deep in the earth away.

Downward I send out a thread like root

Going deeper n deeper each day as I sipped the dew.

Striving deeper n deeper attaching myself to the earth

One day up in the air I sprung a tiny shoot,

Day after day and year after year

Up I grew

Little by little my leaves appear

strong and stout as I proudly stand

My splender branches spread far and wide.

Till the mighty Oak Tree is the Forest pride!

I am a little Acorn

so proud and strong.

I fell by the way side

Unable to root.

As I lay upon the ground

I become nourshing food 

for the great and small creatures

of this Forest I love.

Don't be sad for me I say,

Not all of us can be a tree

To be able to give something back

is the grandest gift that I can give.

I am a little Acorn

so proud and strong!

Ranie Patridis

Puzzle Post Card

Time comes, time goes by

as you put the pieces together

one by one.

Sometimes they fit

sometimes they don't

you never give up looking for the right piece.

Tis the puzzle of it all.

Ranie Patridis

Opus n Aura

What is an Opus n Aura?

Heck I don't know

Just a fancy name that I know of

for a zentangle pattern

to me it looks like flowers n leaves

at least my verison of it does

So tell me what do you think an

Opus n Aura

is?

Ranie Patridis