"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived."

~Captain Jean-Luc Picard~

If a hermitage (defined in the dictionary) is the dwelling of a hermit, is a "hermitdome" or "hermitude"  a collective of hermitages that make a village? Or don't hermits live in solitude together?  I thought they were called cities!

Quivering gently from your touch
I am the stings of your guitar
an instrument you creatively strum
and my love…melodiously rhythmic
a song you play
gently
barely beckoning me to come along
to sing with you
in harmony
Across the highways
into the deep surreal dreams and
fantasies of better days yet to come
and moments of blissful surrender
growing longer...
stronger
each time you play your song.

by
Red Kitten

amidst the onlookers
he reluctantly steps forward
his mighty sword drawn
glistening in the brilliant sunlight
casting a retrospective shadow upon the emotional vampires
lurking in places that we can not...must not admit exist
emphasizing the difference between good and evil
between love and hate
between life and death
he lives imprisoned within those shades of gray
never seeing the black or the white
only knowing that they exist somewhere faraway
sensing that it cries out to him, but not knowing how to follow
or where to start his journey
believing that with just one well placed word
love's soul will be emancipated
and the force released will ignite an eternal flame
a beacon
a light to guide him on his way
but
he stands alone and confused
fearful that any step, any movement
will embed him deeper into the paralysis of never knowing
as he stands trembling
wanting so desperately to become real
she whispers softly to him:
close your eyes and follow your heart.

by Red Kitten

As mentioned before and not a term coined by me, but another fellow blogger I discovered on here (forgot to do a trackback to his blog...sorry about that and I hope he stumbles onto me and takes credit where credit is due) We need to come up with a witty term for the cream (blogs the rise above the rest and actually get some recognition)...you know, the opposite of what a "flurb" is! If a "flurb" is a blog that flopped...is a "purb" a blog that popped? Not to be confused with a Perv Purb or a Nerd Purb! Anyway, I'm still waiting for the minions...if they show up here, I hope they all remember to write a comment so I'll know they tiptoed softly across my page on their way to bigger and better things.  Perhaps if I raffle something off, that will get people to write a comment....hmmmmmm...any suggestions on what to raffle?