Today is Ina’s birthday

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Andrea

Here’s an extraordinary extra January prompt composed for an extraordinary poet sitting over on the West coast of America.
She just wrote an extraordinary wonderful post yesterday, https://inourbooks.com/2013/01/19/friday-surprise-music-made-of-words-2/#comments – go there and enjoy.
“Music made of Words,” she says and here is the music, I, Andrea, sort of lacked today.

Happy birthday, Ina.
But where are the words? Please help me!
Please post a birthday poem here in the comments for Ina or just say happy birthday there.

40 thoughts on “Today is Ina’s birthday”

Guðríður on January 20, 2013 at 3:59 am said:

Wishing you a very happy birthday Ina 🙂 Have a beautiful day and may all your wishes come true 🙂

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:32 am said:
  
  Thank you so much Guðríður- I have never had birthday wishes from Iceland before, and treasure yours!
  
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Misky on January 20, 2013 at 4:24 am said:

Happy birthday, Ina, and I hope that you have a lovely day!

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:32 am said:
  
  Thank you Misky 🙂
  
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Marie Elena on January 20, 2013 at 5:20 am said:

Wonder where Birthday Girl’s hiding today?
Wonder if there is a birthday buffet?
“We weren’t invited?” I ask with dismay,
“No cake to prime up my teeth for decay?”
Wherever, whatever treats she is eating,
Lunching and munching and crunching and “cheating,”
Hoping the Birthday Girl’s not in a meeting,
Birthday Girl, come out to play!
(By Marie Elena Good)

Happy birthday, Ina! Hope it is GRAND!

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- Mariya Koleva on January 20, 2013 at 6:44 am said:
  
  Oh, yoo-hoo, a very cheerful poem, MEG! I wish I’d written it.
  Hugs,
  M
  
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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:32 am said:
  
  Marie Elena, I LOVE THIS! Thank you
  
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Laurie Kolp on January 20, 2013 at 5:21 am said:

Happy Birthday, Ina!

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:33 am said:
  
  Thank you so much Laurie
  
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Mariya Koleva on January 20, 2013 at 5:26 am said:

Hey Ina, Happy birthday! Wishing you many happy returns of the day, joy and smiles, love and fulfillment.
PS, I spent two successive nights on the bus, so, no real power for rhyming 🙂

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:33 am said:
  
  Oh, Thank You Mariya! With or without rhymes, your good wishes mean much to me!
  
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Andrea on January 20, 2013 at 5:49 am said:

HIP HIP HURRAH

Yeah, all the birthdays we’ve forgotten,
all the days, a lot a them,
but here today the sun is shining
and here I’m lining
up
to help you not forget this day,
this particular day, I might say.
This for your poetry lesson
outside there is a pheasant,
congratulation!

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- Mariya Koleva on January 20, 2013 at 6:42 am said:
  
  Andrea, this is wonderful!
  smiles,
  M
  
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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:34 am said:
  
  Andrea, this is so nice of you. And I am jealous – I have only seen a pheasant in the wild once – how lovely!
  
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Iris Deurmyer on January 20, 2013 at 6:11 am said:

Ina is having a birthday you say? No way.
Ina is having a birthday today! Lets play!
Ina is having a birthday today, they say.
Ina is having a birthday, not looking older a day!!!

Happy Happy Birthday Poet friend. Have a blessed year.
Iris

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:34 am said:
  
  Thank you kindly, Iris 🙂
  
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Linda Swenski on January 20, 2013 at 7:12 am said:

Happy Birthday Ina. Remember, we don’t stop playing because we grow older, we grow older because we stop playing. Play on!

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:35 am said:
  
  Thank you, Linda! As soon as I’m over this cold or whatever it is, I promise to play and report back !
  
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whimsygizmo on January 20, 2013 at 7:56 am said:

Let there be cake!
Let there be cake!
Let there be frosting and sprinkles, I thinkles.
Let there be cake!
Let there be cake!
Let there be loved ones and throngs of songs.
Let there be cake!
Let there be cake!
Let there be presents and tons of fun.
(Hopefully better than this one.) 😉

Happy, Happy Birthday, Ina.
Wishing you a perfectly poetical day.
de

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:37 am said:
  
  Thank you De – my DH brought ice cream cake from the local ice cream maker – SUPER YUM – with sprinkles and frosting and EVERYTHING!
  
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- Marie Elena on January 20, 2013 at 9:48 am said:
  
  “Thinkles” 😀 !!
  
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  - Linda H. on January 21, 2013 at 11:55 am said:
    
    “Thinkles” me me smile, too.
jlynn sheridan on January 20, 2013 at 8:23 am said:

Happy Birthday to You.
I’d write you a poem but I have the flu.

Hope it’s wonderful!

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:40 am said:
  
  JLynn! You make me laugh, except for the part about your being sick. Be well soon and thank you for the wishes!
  
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Michelle Hed on January 20, 2013 at 8:56 am said:

Happy Birthday Ina!!! Hope you are having a spectacular day!

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
may you toast with a good brew
and perhaps write a poem or two!!
Happy birthday to you!

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:38 am said:
  
  Hi Michelle! Thank you so much! And I have been blessed with so many poems today!
  
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- Marie Elena on January 20, 2013 at 9:49 am said:
  
  So cute!! 😀
  
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ina on January 20, 2013 at 9:31 am said:

Oh, Andrea, thank you so much! This is so kind! And thank you to everyone for the lovely birthday wishes – getting birthday wishes from writers is really remarkable – I love it and I can hear you all singing? Thank you!

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Barbara Ehrentreu on January 20, 2013 at 10:32 am said:

Play the music and show the pictures
She always knows how to inspire the
words that will come as you gaze at her
incongruous experiences and dig deep
inside for the poetry hidden below the
surface.

She is the font of the fountain of this
untapped gush of verse as it spills
over the pages and into the minds
of the readers here and elsewhere
She is the seed of all that is yet to come

And I celebrate her talent and her zest for life
For she is the one who has opened up poetry
to all and now has given a voice to the voiceless

Happy Birthday, Ina!!! My student Raybert, who is not here, also wishes you the same!!!
Hope your birthday is happy and you have lots of cake and fun!!!
May you get all you wish for and more!!!

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 2:37 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much, Barbara! And your student, too. What a lovely poem – thank you again 🙂
  
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Linda H. on January 20, 2013 at 11:20 am said:

Alles gute zum Geburtstag,
I wish you a wonderful day.
I hope that it is the very best,
most perfect, awesome birthday.

Okay, that was lame. But I have only a minute online and it’s better than nothing. Right? I hope your day is perfect, Ina. May it be surrounded by those you love and love you and may it be filled with laughs and smiles and fun. (and cake…gotta have cake)

Linda

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 2:38 pm said:
  
  No, that was LOVELYI! Thank you – my German is VERY rusty so I’m glad you included a phrase I can actually still read! And yes, cake! My spouse brought cake!
  
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Marian Veverka on January 20, 2013 at 1:04 pm said:

Happy Birthday Ina! I have enjoyed reading your comments and posts on “In Our Books.” Looking forward to more!

Marian veverka

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 2:39 pm said:
  
  Thank you, Marian, for the compliment and the birthday cheer 🙂
  
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Amy Harke-Moore on January 20, 2013 at 2:42 pm said:

Happy Birthday, Ina! Many happy returns! BTW, love your son’s description of poetry as “music made of words”!

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- Ina on January 24, 2013 at 12:34 pm said:
  
  Thank you, Amy! So kind of you!
  
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drpkp on January 20, 2013 at 3:11 pm said:

For Ina …..

She walks in worlds
of intellect
of science
and sense
sprinkled
with passion
and compassion
and poetry
She walks in worlds
concrete and tangible
created and ephemeral
Understanding that
there is little difference
after all …
She is Ina
once an essence
floating on energy
waiting to arrive
on this January
day …

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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- ina on January 20, 2013 at 11:53 pm said:
  
  Pearl, this is so kind and generous of you. Thank you for the birthday poem – it’s so lovely, I just teared up.
  
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Forestwoodfolkart on January 24, 2013 at 5:58 am said:

Sorry I missed your birthday Ina, as I have been away on vacation. I hope you had a smashing day, full of special memories.

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- Ina on January 24, 2013 at 12:39 pm said:
  
  I’m so glad you were vacationing that day! I wish that everyone got to give people vacations to celebrate their birthdays – I would have given one to every person on this board 🙂
  
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