Category: long and winding road
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Autumn
She was smart, world wise and tired of games but wanting to fall in love all the same. You may guess her name; I met her after a hot hectic summer of fresh beginnings, at a reception for some cause or another. Not that the cause wasn’t important to me, at the time, but that…
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Forgiving Unforgotten
Huddled around the corner we look into one another’s eyes they’re doing that again did it wake you up too you stink you sound like a fishwife you can barely speak I have a right to have a good time barely standing isn’t a good time every once in awhile every night for the past…
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Twilight
say, have you seenby the daylight’s dimmingpeople with belly full, soul emptypeople full of soul, belly emptyis there a mottowho is to trustbombs being dropped by computer precisionwarfare raging between bytes and bitswhat will tomorrow be,can love still overcome Fresh breathe of good air to Eugie’s Weekly Word Prompt!
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Long Haul Before Dawn
We don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave – selah.Teddy Bears watching from the windowshave gone back to their beds.The trembling world has shaken us to the bonebut the winding riverbrings us forever home.Darkness covers the earthand daybreak’s first lightinspires our morning gloryto blossom in solemnity. Reena’s challenge…
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And as Color is but the Particular Tribute that All Things Pay to Universal Light
Knowledge of anything being just an insighttones juxtapose, lines joinimmediate whole simultaneousimplicit harmony revealing beautyexpress hills, pine trees, a pond, sun drifting through;adopting perspectives of all the endless complexitypure ideas form movementopen your home to the windsretreat to the perfect nook of a peaceful valleyall we need for our well-beingto lengthen or shorten our vision…
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Newton the Salamander
These are the summersI said always then;those were the summersI only say now.Jobs were for spending moneyneither would last too longmore and another would come.Lovers were for funand there will neverbe another like they.I had a red-backed salamander –does any one remember whyI chose the name Newton?One day Newton escapedfrom the glass terrarium;Jeanne found Newton…
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Another Fine day
It’s Find Today (Stanza 2nd – by Douglas Malloch) What’s the use of always weepin’,Making trouble last?What’s the use of always keepin’Thinkin’ of the past?Each must have his tribulation —Water with his wine;Life, it ain’t no celebration,Trouble? — I’ve had mine —But today is fine!
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Home Sweet Home
Happiness is in how Not in the what Joy is in living Not saved in jars Ten thousand almosts are Less than one true I look for you When I get here Found from our hearts Within a tender kiss For Eugi’s Weekly Prompt