Blondine Louise Reddick

Longwood, Florida, USA

Blondine is a homemaker, poet, author, freelance writer and lyricist. She is married and has four children and seven grandchildren. She has won numerous Editor's Choice Awards from the National Library of Poetry and The International Society of Poets. Her poems have been recorded as songs by the Entertainer Indi Association, Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of a book entitled, A Month of Revelations in Modern Tokyo, Japan and a recently published book of short stories entitled, Chatterbox Inn/Clamdiggerin. She started writing poetry when her son's fiancé and mother were killed on an airplane flight out of Manchester, England. She plans to leave her writings as a legacy for her children and grandchildren.

Alison

She came into my life -- Now she's just a memory
For a fleeting interlude -- A joyful rhapsody
Like a rainbow through a cloud
She brightened up each day
Her laughter filled the air that kept swirling all around me
I'm left groping in the dark with "Why" questions in my brain.
No answer seems to come, no matter how I try.
Her hand will rest in mine
To comfort and to guide me
And, I'll feel her presence there
Thought it's just a memory
Like a pixie on a cloud -- (to keep me from despair),
She'll taunt me now and then
I'll smile, -- And then pretend
That she's with me once again.

Oh! What A Dream!

I dreamed of dancing daffodils
Of brooks and streams and windswept hills
As tumbleweeds went bounding by
I saw the rain clouds paint the sky
With colors not of pastel hue
But, as smoky black from chimney flue.
Hurriedly, I rushed to gain
Shelter from oncoming rain
My legs and feet in dreams lay still
I could not move, 'twas not their will
I tried and tried with all my might
I vowed to not give up the fight
The storm clouds grew; then lightning came
-- And, now, my body ached with pain!
A thunderbolt like cannon roar
Awakened me from reverie
And, Knocked Me Flat upon the floor!

The Pleasure Of Your Smile

I waft deeply in the pleasure of your smile
It treats me like a gentle breeze
On a hot and sultry summer day
As a rainbow peers aft' endless rain
And clouds fast fade away.
I'll store it in that special place
Down deep within my brain
When things go wrong, I can't erase
To recall it once again.
Memories are made, you see,
From moments such as this
A smile can be as gentle
As a lovers well-placed kiss.