Dearest  Sirenita:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!  I hope that life continues to bring you joy and fulfillment.

I missed your actual day of birth (11-4) but I know you are celebrating today so it’s still timely.  I had never been a member of a social network before and I had no idea you could meet amazing people like you (and other OS’ers) on the internets! 

I simply think you are amazing and brilliant and funny and kind and strong and really interesting and full of grace.

Your mermaid avatar is a part of you and in honor of that avatar I found some mermaid poetry for you to enjoy.   I wish you all that is good and all that your heart desires and even a little bit I wish for a bit of miracle.  MWAH!!!!!!!!! or as Marcela says Besitos!

 Sheila Wolk

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Maggie and Milly and Molly and May 

                                                --e.e. cummings


maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly discovered a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles; and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find at the sea

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excerpts from plays by William Shakespeare

        Oberon:

My gentle Puck, come hither.

Thou rememberest since

Once I sat upon a promontory,

And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back

Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath

That the rude sea grew civil at her song,

And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,

To hear the sea-maid's music?
A Midsummer Night's Dream -excerpt

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Uduma Kalu

A mermaid dance

Dance a mermaid dance...
 a sweet mermaid dance-
and let your cresting waist
glide in the moon.

Dance a moonlight dance, sweet mermaid.
Let your gliding swish catch the glimpse of the fish
in  moonlight .
And let us watch your nose  warm in obeisance.
Dance, sweet mermaid, dance.
And let the moon cast its warmth on your narrow waist.
And let us watch your swinging waist meander in the
moon
When the flutist calls.

Twist your head again, sweet silence. Nod your head
again.
And let your wild hair tumble together like light fins
gliding in the moon.

Tim Ashkar

And of course MARIACHIS! (this video is actually for the singer but I thought you would enjoy all the pics of Alejandro, he is one of the new standards of this song on youtube)