Blessings
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Let no one tell you how to live
Let no one tell you how to live;It’s on that day you die a bit.Love is yours to take and give;Let no one tell you how to live.When joy is leaking like a sieve,push forward – hard – and never quit.Let no one tell you how to live;It’s on that day you die a bit.
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in swirling chaos
in swirling chaos / together – we find center / and you make me feel
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It’s a SIGN…
Or IS it a “sign” at all?
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Catching My Breath
I know, I know, my writing has been spotty (at best) for the last couple months. Ironically, this wordless patch hit me near the beginning of my favorite writing month, National Poetry Writing Month, in April. Two years ago, a friend encouraged me to try it, even though I’d never written poetry (or what I…
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be not proud
What I pull out may render sad or jolly; Too big for my britches?
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Soon the Sun Will Be Blazing
Though today We are Dazing While mindlessly Grazing
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The Purest Gold
The clouds always part
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See the Sea
When will I see the sea for what it is and what it will always be?
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This is How Love Is
For in the end, Love Runs to Us, Grasps Us, And Refuses to Ever let Us go.
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Sonnet XLIII – Unsparing
Whatever form that functions is the thing That proffers wisdom, be it balm or sting.
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transition
wisps of potential precipitation occlude the sun’s rays, goosebumping my flesh which was recently warm.
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What a Trip – #SoCS
Little things piled up. Thing which, under normal circumstances, would have rolled off my back, but they ALL. HAPPENED. AT. ONCE.
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No Shovel Required
Snow falls and then melts
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Fractured Faces
Safe in our certain Somethingness…
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Deep Thirst
A Sauvignon BlancNearing our parched lips and tonguesSlakes a long dryness
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Obscured
I see you… Rising above the cloudswhich obscurewhere your building began. You continue to riseIn spite of the clouds, And clouds don’t last forever. One day… You will standstrongand proud, And I will see you fully,toptobottom, Illuminatedby a never-ending sun. The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays. Photo Credit:Patrick Jennings…
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See Where I Might Land – SoCS
The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS) is: “let go.” Write about the first thing that comes to mind when you think “let go.” Enjoy! I’m about 36 hours late on my SoCS because, well, I just couldn’t “let go” yesterday. I had it SO firmly affixed in my mind what had to be…
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Then I Will Bring a Boat
It seems my friends have Sorrows fit to Drown; They’ve just enough Pure Joy to stay Afloat.
defying atrophy 