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Month: June 2020

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today I give a “must write” and trust you will forgive me

#haikai, #tanka, commitment, duty, excuses, gift, placeholder, priorities

Stop making Sense

I have an instilled Sense of Fairness, but life’s. not. fair. is it?

fairness, feelings, king, nonsense, picnic, ruled, ruler, selfish, sense

Nailing the Nailer

Nail me. I’ll nail it.

#napowrimo, Humanity, learning, nail, Poetry, Pride, Purpose, right, selfishness, SoCS, think

idiot box

stop changing channels. just turn it off and step out of the idiot box.

#poetry, actor, authenticity, channels, flesh, idiot box, plastic, real, resolved, TV

blip

don’t let it be lost to time

#tanka, 2020, blip, Life, Purpose, time

the creature

turns out he’s here for a reason.

anxiety, creature, fear, fight or flight, insect, instinct, lip service, Neanderthal, Purpose, synchronicity, viper

reunion

I think of underdogs today and choose to go a different way

#poetry, childhood, communion, family, joy, playround, prayer, reunion, sing

righteous? anger

when love and indignation muddle, ’tis hard – which to express?

anger, bull in a china shop, evangelism, Faith, God, grenades, holy, indignation, righteous

false flight

memories of freedom won’t fly anymore

#freedom, #picandawordchallenge, #poetry, fly, Freedom, glass ceiling, illusion

Night Before the Fall

oh, that this night would never end.

choice, comparison, eden, need, night, perfection, stars, the fall, want

Firefly

I’ll dream it’s somehow magic
– not let science steal my joy

#firefly, #haikai, #tanka, magic, mood, Poetry, science

miscommunicado

crossed wires start fires

apologize, communication, fires, Love, misunderstanding, Poetry

silent fires

a symphony of sight – no sound –
as silent fires above abound

day, ears, fire, sound, stars, symphony, vacuum

lost and found

peace can still be found but you have to look for it.

haiku, lost and found, Poetry

beyond the blue

It’s good to get rid of the darkness.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, blue, draft, Life, Poetry, sad

by thy help I come

finally bursting forth into light. come, thou fount. refresh.

choirmaster, come thou fount, darkness, light, psalm 23, refresh, river, shepherd, Suzi Mueller, thirst

Black and Blue

Define the true path. A way made straight by our God who sets us all free.

black and blue, bruise, colors, equality, flood, Justice, march, police, river, soldiers, warriors, weapons, white

#blackoutday2020

#blacklivesmatter

Hevel

sometimes poetry requires digging.

#picandawordchallenge, easy, ecclesiastes, hard, nothing new under the sun, Poetry, think, work

retreat

retreat is not surrender. sometimes
just need to back away. even a warrior knows when the fire is too hot

never
think he’s gone away for good

Justice, retreat, social justice, surrender, warfare

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