trust lets go

Inspired by photography of Brooke Shaden at:   http://brookeshaden.com/gallery/

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Photo credit: Fear of Falling by Brooke Shaden

 

 

we paste rags, dead leaves

on pathetic cut-paper wings

then tie them to our backs,

flap arms and hope like mad

to fly away from barren cliffs.

 

a dangerous fog of smug

self-sufficiency muddles

our minds and fills us with

secret, dark, well-founded

fears of crashing on rocks.

 

if we open our hearts and

minds to receive his Spirit

to dare believe in a Love

who is wiser and stronger

than us, to bow in humility

 

his face will shine through

thick fog, remove our fears

(except healthy fear of him)

fit us with love’s living wings

and raise our spirits to soar!

“capturing inspiration”

Inspired by photography of Brooke Shaden at:   http://brookeshaden.com/gallery/

 

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shiny power from

imagination’s station

bursts into dusty room

of beautifully tired mind;

ideas full-throttle steaming,

bells clang, lantern gleaming,

an archetypical locomotive

that sweeps any confusion

off flexing steel rails onto

sooty hardwood flooring;

while graceful barefoot

thoughts pose, entranced

by marvelous miniature

revelation which may

inspire fresh energy

for creativity; black

and white contrast

needs fleshing out,

expressed in muscular

tones of new dance steps,

art’s arabesque.

 

prayer for open heart surgery

 

Lord,

make us holy,

whole.

where we are broken,

fixed.

where we are bound,

free.

where we are empty,

filled.

where we are lost,

found.

 

open our hearts,

repair the holes

make us holy

wholly yours.

 

Amen –  may it be so.

un-american sentence

 

Sometimes life can feel like just one disappointment after another…

(the greater our expectations, the more disappointed we may feel)

 

summa cum laude

 

sumac leaves blushing

summer is changing her clothes

summit ash wear gold

Photo credit: Colored Leaves mirrored in a lakemirrored leaves

Linked to: Carpe Diem – Kishu’s A Crow Passes

remembering 9/11

photo credit: familysecuritymatters.org

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read names
fell with towers
in flames

hushed speech
pentagon walls
terror’s reach

bells toll
where plane went down
grass knoll

__________

Musette form (by Emily Romano) is a poem of 3 verses of 3 lines each.

First lines have 2 syllables; second lines have 4 syllables, third lines have 2. 

Rhyme scheme is a/b/a for first verse; c/d/c for second and e/f/e for third.

knowledge is sweet

A draft to fit Mary’s sketch prompt and Karin’s metaphor MTB at d’verse.

come hungry

look over menu

choose course;

catch waft of

fresh-baked aroma

from academic ovens;

instructor waits tables

invites scholars to

taste new pastry;

subject served warm

on gleaming plate

with notes on napkins;

admire textually

outlined layers

then dive in!

chew slowly to savor

and file in memory

to enjoy again later;

swallow with hot beverage

of cafe experience,

sweetened with

cream of delight.

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 artwork: Coffeetime by Claudia Schoenfeld

as flowers of the field

Linked to: http://dversepoets.com/2014/09/09/poetics-bringing-light-to-darkness/

 

prognosis grim-

after years of

battling asthma,

her body bearing

those ravages,

she was slowly

succumbing

to new onslaught:

acute lymphocytic

leukemia, a kind

of cancer…

her own cells

would betray her.

 

photo from free wallpaper for desktops

a wheezing

shortness of

breath was

her personal

trademark, as

was her breezy

sense of humor.

after bad news,

i drove to hospital

to talk for our

last time (before

hospice left her

without words).

 

she softly

explained to

my young sons

that she would

be going to see

Jesus soon…

i choked back

sobs, blinking

at the gorgeous

gerbera daisy

from her only

grand daughter,

packing to come.

 

(photo from free wallpapers for desktop)

 

balcony view

chemtrails

 

 

 hourglass sea beckons

autumn travellers leave trails

blue and white plaid sky

 

 

Link to: http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.se/2014/09/carpe-diem-time-glass-time-challenging.html

 

righteously named

Dedicated to my grandson (and the ideal of justice).

 

all

for

Justus

strong and steady

heady weight

equality of fairness

legacy’s liberty

lawfully determined

liberty’s legacy

fairness of equality

heavy wait

steady and strong

Justice

for 

all

 

 

eyes on us

peaceful

invasion of

humming vibrations

metallic blue iridescence

scouts on stealth-winged flight

the all-seeing Eye

 needs no drones to survey earth

but suppose he did…

would he assign dragonflies

to watch over us farmers?

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(Blue dasher on lotus – Wikipedia)

who’s the big green dude?

 

 

The Thinker by Rodin (Wikipedia)

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A contemplative philosopher?

intense, that’s for sure

(notice the curled toes)

but perhaps he’s a…

 

defeated athlete

flexing male model

confused caveman

rejected lover

famous architect

benched ball player

death row inmate

taxed accountant

jolly green giant

 

whoever he is,

he’s gotta be thinking…

where did I leave my clothes??

 

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