Category: poetry
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My Writing Self-Discovery – SOLC Day 16
No topics Walk the block Sparks writing Lacking words Ride the bike Thoughts abound Lesson learned Moving-my fueling muse. This monthly challenge has allowed me to discover something about my writing self. Exercise or moving gets my creative juices flowing when I feel uninspired, stuck, or just blah. Earlier this week, I had no idea…
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Is This a Spring Tease?-SOLC Day 12
Pops of yellow blooms quietly taunt Spring’s near through brown, brittle leaves Oh, surprise-bees are back too Is this more than just a tease? Today was a 65 degree day with full sun! It has been months since seeing a temperature like this. The sun was radiant in the popping blue sky. So lovely! Arriving…
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Spring Ahead into Darkness-SOLC Day 11
Spring ahead changes me Darkness exists at rising. Darkness colors today’s mood; Darkness changes me- Spring ahead! This first Monday after changing the time and losing one hour was awful at awakening. At 6:30 AM, it is now totally dark again as well as silent. The birds are no longer twittering about the birth of…
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Spring Blooms Defeat Winter Wearies-SOLC Day 4
T en closed buds of alternating lilac and white U plifting sight for a tired, weary winter soul L aments turned to hopeful optimism I gnoring the price tag P urchased on a happy whim S pring bundled in cellophane to carry home
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Capturing Winter’s Beauty: A Journaling Journey
For the month of January, I am taking part in the challenge from Wild Wonder Foundation to nature journal each day. I will do my best to meet that challenge but also plan to give myself grace on the days I can’t fit it in. The above poem was written in response to the prompt…
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Finding Joy in Presence: A Poetic Reflection
Let me be lulled by the melody of your voice- the rises and falls, the acceleration, repetition and easing. Let me be infected with the joy of your smile and laughter so each cell of my body retains this energy once you depart. Let me be awed by the ideas, creativity and humor developed in…
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Navigating Christmas Emotions: From Sadness to Joy
“Deck the halls”…with tearful smiles “Just like the ones I used to know”…. bittersweet memories of Christmases past “I’ll be home for Christmas”… oh Dad how I wish you could be “My lights on the tree, I wish you could see”… hanging ornaments from my mom “Through the years we’ll be together, if the fates…
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A Table Teaches What It Means to Be Human
Each evening. exactly at 5:00 the family of 6 encircled a table- bumping elbows, knocking knees. horseplaying, laughing until the moment the food made by loving hands filled the table. Colored bowls filled with passed down recipes only known in the cook’s mind scattered across the surface, nearly fitting in the diameter. Squeezed in, around,…
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Nature’s Lesson: Revealing Our Authentic Selves
Pure beauty of self revealed- conforming masquerade ceases. Revealed jittery candid spirit- revealed beauty of pure self The past 2 weeks have been filled with the glorious colors of the season- rubies, tangerines, golds, russets. Many times I have stopped in awe of the scene before me. The sun highlighting these colors to the fullest.…
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Finding Magic in Morning Mist
Earth’s misty gray heavens silently descend to kiss the crown of Fall tipped leaves embracing them in momentary privacy, magnifying the morning hush allowing the world to rest for a few hours longer in the delayed brightness of day. Over the past few weeks, I have encountered more foggy mornings than I would say is…
Doodads and Doodles 