Month: April 2019

Weight of Burdens, poem

Trudging day in till nightfall

Heavy burdens encircle me

Wanting desperately to lay it all down

Never much to relieve the weight from me

Have forgiven my own self a hundred times, or more

Just wanting to feel free

Feel free for the weaker me

For the me I could not be

But nothing breaks my burdens

Nothing…

For now.

MwsR❤️

Picture credit

https://deskgram.net/neomlei?next_id=1888966213210297931_516602731

Poetry Share

http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/12/08/poems-for-kids-in-english/

DIY~Carpet Cleaner

Easy-to-make carpet cleaner

If you have a nasty stain on your carpet, you don’t have to rush to the store for expensive carpet cleaners. This DIY concoction will have your carpets looking brand new in no time. In a spray bottle, mix 2 ounces of hydrogen peroxide and 1 ounce of Dawn dish soap. Spray the stain or problem area and scrub with a rag. Finish by spraying with plain water and scrubbing to remove any remnants of the stain as well as the soap.

Release, poem

The hearts needs time

To let things go

I should know.

Never easy, but necessary

Escapable pain lets our hearts renew

You can do it, I believe it to be true.

Release and let it disperse

Help your heart start another beat

Think of it,as a treat.

MwsR❤️

Greek Tilapia

Greek Tilapia

Ingredients

  • 4 tilapia fillets (4 ounces each)
  • 4 teaspoons butter
  • 1 large egg
  • 3/4 cup crumbled tomato and basil feta cheese
  • 1/4 cup fat-free milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 large tomato, seeded and chopped
  • 1/4 cup chopped ripe olives
  • 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Directions

  • In a large cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet, brown fish in butter.
  • In a small bowl, combine the egg, cheese, milk and cayenne; spoon over fish. Sprinkle with tomato, olives and pine nuts. Bake, uncovered, at 425° until fish just begins to flake easily with a fork, 10-15 minutes.
  • In a small bowl, combine the parsley, lemon juice and pepper; drizzle over fish.
Nutrition Facts

1 fillet: 279 calories, 16g fat (6g saturated fat), 123mg cholesterol, 362mg sodium, 5g carbohydrate (2g sugars, 2g fiber), 29g protein.

Originally published as Tilapia A La Greek in Healthy Cooking February/March 2011

Laugh a Little

Poet Biography~ Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a family well known for educational and political activity. Her father, an orthodox Calvinist, was a lawyer and treasurer of the local college. He also served in Congress. Dickinson’s mother, whose name was also Emily, was a cold, religious, hard-working housewife, who suffered from depression. Her relationship with her daughter was distant. Later Dickinson wrote in a letter, that she never had a mother.

Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy (1834-47) and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (1847-48). Around 1850 she started to compose poems – “Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, / Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!” she said in her earliest known poem, dated March 4, 1850. It was published in Springfield Daily Republican in 1852.

The style of her first efforts was fairly conventional, but after years of practice she began to give room for experiments. Often written in the metre of hymns, her poems dealt not only with issues of death, faith and immortality, but with nature, domesticity, and the power and limits of language. From c.1858 Dickinson assembled many of her poems in packets of ‘fascicles’, which she bound herself with needle and thread. A selection of these poems appeared in 1890.

In 1862 Dickinson started her life long correspondence and friendship with Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), a writer and reformer, who commanded during the Civil War the first troop of African-American soldiers. Higginson later published Army Life in a Black Regiment in 1870. On of the four poems he received from Dickinson was the famous ‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers.’


Biography from: ReadPrint.com
Emily Dickinson