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Category: Blessings

innuendo

Angry Balls, my ass.

Necessary Irritants

GOOD LORD – IT JUST KEEPS COMING.

allergies, irritants, necessary, pollen

Winged Haunt

Other creatures fly with far less hope.

Aeneid, harpy, it could be worse, perspective, Virgil

growing into your name

Really, my friend, I so wish you could see; You are as firm as your nameplate to me.

Lachrymose Vodka

Those should have been mine to cry

tanka, tears

superhuman

I used to dream of invisibility… or flight.

authenticity, flying, Invisibility, Invisible Man, superman, superpower, vulnerability

INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU

FEAR NOT! The angels always say.

A Prayer for Owen Meany, Angels, belief, courage, fear, John Irving

Good God? – a ramble ’round golgotha

somanycontradictions

crucifixion, Good Friday, nonsense, sense, understanding

wrong turns?

I now own my road
And revel in its
redemptive reality.

And that will make all the difference.

#napowrimo, choices, regrets, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

More Alien Than I

And since you don’t get it,
You shouldn’t get This.

belonging, contemplation, contentment, resident alien, stranger

Sonnet XXII – adieu to much ado

I’ve heard that stupid is as stupid does; so I am done with “doing” stupid now.

abiding, one day at a time, resting, striving

Head Squared

Freedom is strange… New.

#haiku, #tanka, haikai

PTSD

At the very least – PTSD starts with “Post”, So I’ve got that going for me…

honesty, journey, PTSD, Suicide

Sonnet XXI – moons will be

CONTROL is my Achilles’ heel, you see; I like to think that I can call the moon.

#SFaS, control

tubular tones

wind chimes sing to me from the backyard this late winter morning

beauty, tintinnabulation, wind, wind chimes

Sonnet XX – Switching Sides?

So Sides I Switch – “Solutioning” right now; At least until my strength begins to wane.

choice, positivity, solutionize

gilt-deep compassion

Time to put some more of our “White Gilt” to work.

compassion, doing, outrage

movement

what if backwards is the right direction?

backwards, forwards, motion, perspective, right, Wrong

glimmers

scintillating sparkles in oceans of inky blackness

hope, parenting, potential, seeing

Never Say “No” to Angels

Why do we push against the things we need the most?

Angels, coincidence, mental health, Mental Illness

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