Oops!… We Did It Again (Preparations for spring)

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by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2015-2018

61 thoughts on “Oops!… We Did It Again (Preparations for spring)”

  1. My Dearest Hatter, I so agree with Sir Tony, except I see the heart as a cup or bowl. It can be filled with junk, or precious things, it can be chipped, cracked or even broken. However, the heart is both fragile and strong, we can glue all the piece back together, and use it again! Wonderful, love the last two verses:

    “My heart soars above my head
    like a lovely red balloon.”

    Visually beautiful! ❤

    Yours,
    Alice ♥

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    • Thank you, Michael ❤

      My endless source of helium is you, my dearest friends!
      Every your comment makes me a bit lighter 🙂

      (And I'm so sorry for my delay with answers… You'll get them very soon, I promise)

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    • Yay! You’ve just written HISHE!
      (LOL! Don’t beat me for another acronym 😛
      HISHE=How it Should Have Ended)

      It’s exactly what will happen later!
      Unfortunately, the rules of tanka cut the last line…

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  5. The heart is like a sponge. It soaks in every kind word, every hug, every kiss and touch, every hurt, every dark moment, every kick and punch… The heart is fragile, yet resilient. It can be closed off, yet cautiously bare. It can bleed dry when wrung out, and yet it can hold so much until it can take no more. And then the heart leaves winter behind, leaving forlorn tracks in the snow, looking forward to the spring that awaits. The heart hopes. And yes, in spite of itself.

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    • Well, I didn’t ask that because I know you’re not heartless. It’s just not in your nature to be heartless. No, you actually have a big heart, a warm heart, a heart that all of us can see in every piece you write and every comment you make. You have many followers because we are all attracted to the genuineness of your spirit, and we hope you’ll never stop! 😀

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    • Oh, Tony… (I’m readjusting my halo)… if your words were truth… I would sit opposite the Pope in the Vatican City, not opposite my lovely Pepper on the 13th floor in the main office of N.W.O. 😛

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    • Ah, Tony! Your comment about the heart being like a sponge, and bleeding dry, I spoke of those things in the first part of my story yesterday! At first when I saw the comment, back on Tati’s page to respond to her comment back, I was like… ah, did I telepathically mirror my friend’s conversations without knowing it? Tati is 8 hours ahead of me here, and you commented on my post yesterday at 7:33 PM my time, and her on Tati’s post at 3:24 AM her time, which is 9 minutes less than 8 hours. When I responded to you my plans for what to write for my story today, it must have been a trip! How weird is that, that we all seem to think sort of similar, around the same time. Now that I have read your comment, and I see how amazing it is (geez, you even spoke about the heart leaving winter behind, which is similar to lyrics in the music video for my post yesterday), I really want to use your comment in my story, and refer to you as one of the other people that Raiden donated to, corresponding with Lillian, filling her in on what Raiden did. I would of course cite you as a collaborator, and allow you to chose your character’s name and donated organ in the story if you wanted, if this is all ok with you. Your comment was just too perfect to not say anything about!

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    • And Tati, I picked up on the cleaning out the heart, but I didn’t think you were heartless. The kind comment exchange we had on one of my posts yesterday about women being magical beings, shows that you still make time for weird friends like me, and only a genuine, kind-hearted person would take the time to do that. I can be kind of chaotic at times, taking all my posts down from time to time, and starting over, when I get insecure and am feeling misunderstood. I get that some of my writings are very good, at least according to people who comment, and I’m sure behavior like that, taking them down, would be so intolerably annoying to someone who is heartless, that they wouldn’t want to bother associating with someone so flighty and nervous as me!

      Having an empty heart, isn’t always the same thing as being heartless. Sometimes it’s just come from freeing up room to love more freely and comfortable the people in one’s life. Don’t read into the music video below as me being a flirt, just that I care, and that the comments I happened across on your post today brought a song to mind that goes with the conversation 🙂

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    • Ry, Ry, Ry… thank you for this lovely song!
      (Well, not a flirt, just a friendly sharing) 😛

      What can I say? I’m worry only about that sometimes I don’t have enough of time to comment more, and more, and more! You’re my dear friend, who is chaotic at times, taking all posts down, flighty and nervous… It’s beautiful ❤
      And I love you with all my empty heart!
      (Hmm, not a flirt, you remember, aren't you?) 😉

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    • lol no worries, in some sense I am unconsciously a flirt sometimes by objective standards, but I just mean to be a nice guy, and let people know they are cared about in thoughtful ways, without having an ulterior agenda. I am flighty and nervous about how I come across, and yet I am bold and brazen enough to say I see how I could come across as a flirt, which takes guts to address publicly. Very chaotic indeed. I know you don’t take my kindness as trying to romance you, I really only clarified it for other readers, as I noticed on the post you linked back to in either this post or another (cannot see this post right now, I’m commenting through my notifications), that I went back and read, I realized that a lot of people had commented on that post after me, mentioning the comment I had made, which made me self-consciousness. I am protective, but not possessive!

      But thank you, I suppose you and I are empty-hearted platonic lovers 😛 lol

      For anyone that doesn’t know, Platonic Love is the unromantic love of mere friends! And no, that doesn’t mean “Friends with benefits”. Well, I do edit Unbolt’s stories sometimes, that is a benefit. Don’t read into it though. Well, read into her story as it’s awesome, but not like that. Ah, it would be a shame if I was not being deliberately silly and just pretending to be more self-conscious than I am, as this is kinda funny…

      Anyways, I’m an innocent Catholic choir boy!! The priest taught me to be afraid of girls unless they are thousands of miles away and their Vagina dentata (Latin for toothed vagina) cannot get me! I have Eurotophobia and nightmares about Succubi eating me alive and stealing my soul!

      lol Ok, I’m done. 😉

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    • OMG 😀
      I’m in tears!!

      ‘You and I are empty-hearted platonic lovers’
      ‘Friends with benefits’

      Oh, I do have many, really many benefits from our friendship 😛
      My raped (by your writings) mind.
      My satisfied (by your comments) ego.
      My tearful eyes and my smiled lips from your jokes…

      Oh, an innocent Catholic choir boy!! Who taught you not to be afraid of such salty jokes?

      ‘The old king told me once that the gods gave people a sense of humour to make up for giving them sex. I think he was a bit upset at the time’ (Terry Pratchett, Pyramids)

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    • lol I don’t know who taught me to not be afraid of those jokes. I watch a lot of tv, so my guess is probably tv. I would joke some more, but the Cheshire Cat is feeling too melancholic. I’m surprised I was able to joke as I did yesterday, as I wasn’t in the best mood yesterday either. Sorry if your laughing got you embarrassed at work today! 😛

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    • Ry, like Tati (and Pepperanne), you have a good heart. It’s what attracts me to you guys. I hope like hell that none of us ever lose touch. It’s a joy to read your comments, and these latest ones were no exception. I’m often inspired by the things you have to say, so it doesn’t surprise me that I would begin to echo some of your words in the things I say. I still barely know you, and already I find myself looking forward to your responses like we’ve been friends for years.

      I would be honoured if you used my comment in your story. Truly. And while crediting me really isn’t required I am touched that you would think to do so anyway. AS for the character’s name and donated organ, I would actually be more interested to see what you decide on. Not that I don’t want to play, so to speak, but I am very curious as to what your creative choices would be here. I’m just delighted that anything I write would resonate as strongly as it has with you. That’s humbling right there.

      But hey, it goes both ways. You inspire me too. You all do. My work can only get better because of the input you guys have into my life. And I’ll stop here in case I’m coming across as too earnest and… well, gushy. Lol!

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  6. I saw the haiku and tanka, but where’s the kanshi you tagged? And geez, I didn’t realize so many people made reference to my comment on the post you linked to!

    I like the haiku and tanka though. The idea of having a red balloon at the end, makes me think that before, it was a black balloon, and that in connection with the smoke references in the post you linked to, made me think of Goo Goo Dolls’ music video “Black Balloon”:

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    • Thank you, Ry ❤
      I love this song… it's pretty close to my perception of what I wrote and why.

      Oh… sorry for this little confusion, Ry.
      I created this tag like a mirror for the menu category 'Haiku&Tanka&Kanshi' for those who prefer tags. It directs readers to the section with similar stuff. And I tagged it 'Haiku' and 'Tanka' separately, but not 'Kanshi'.

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    • Ah, I see. And you’re welcome!

      I just typed in “Red Balloon” into Google, and a suggested search result “Red Balloons For Ryan” came up! Apparently a little boy with my name recently died, and the story was about how his classmates let go of red balloons for him. I guess their parents told him he was in a better place (Heaven) and would get their balloons. So sad!

      Hey, since Pepper has been too busy with personal stuff for working on a poetry collaboration with you and I, you and I should just do a collaboration sometime soon! I’ve noticed you post less frequently now than you used to, but email me sometime when you have some free time to work together if you would like to 🙂

      You should try a shadorma sometime, by the way. It’s a 6 line poem with Spanish origins, with this syllable structure count: 3/5/3/3/7/5.

      Here’s an example of one. They are fun, and sometimes I think a little more challenging than haiku/tanka/shadorma because of the lines with only 3 syllables:

      Selective
      in remembering —
      Retrograde
      Amnesia
      pretending, so memories
      can be anything

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    • Oh, Ry, this story is really touching…
      I found the news, I saw photos. He looked like a little angel… It’s a pity that this little boy died 😦

      Yes, I would be happy to collaborate with you, Ry ❤
      It's a big honor for me, truly!
      Fortunately, my hellish February ended. I can breathe sigh of relief 😛
      YAY! I guess, I'll be ready the next week!

      And thank you again for introducing me a shadorma!!

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