My final offering for 3 Days/3 Quotes challenge!
Tell me, what’s more American than Charles Schulz and Peanut M & M’s?!
If chocolate-covered Peanuts don’t inspire you, I don’t know what else would 😉
an attitude of gratitude
20 Oct 2015 19 Comments
Day 2 of Mira’s 3 Days/3 Quotes challenge…and linking to dVerse poets
Have you read Ann Voskamp’s book, one thousand gifts? a holy experience
“An attitude of gratitude”
may seem a simple platitude
But learning to appreciate
small blessings given makes life great
Give thanks for colored leaves on trees
give thanks for buzzing honey bees
I’m grateful to be breathing air
i’m thankful Shondra cuts my hair
Sneak sniff of flower petals sweet
taste gladly everything you eat
Give thanks for babies’ soft new skin
give thanks for sleep at home with kin
Be happy for bright shining stars
take care of Earth, can’t live on Mars
We give our thanks to God above
for sharing His abundant love
Increase your joy, expand your mind
count every blessing you can find!
Hey, look at that…i even rhymed 🙂
we pass thru vale (veil) of tears
19 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in haiku, quote Tags: home, orphans, peace, refugees, tears
we’re all refugees
orphans searching for hearts’ home
when peace cries last tears
photo by lynn
Thanks to Mira for nominating me for the 3 Quotes, 3 Days challenge!
(Hey, I nominate all of my readers…check it out!)
japan’s tango-no-sekku
17 Oct 2015 4 Comments
Linking to CDHK theme of Japanese festivals…
carp kites flying high
fish that fight like samurai
let’s celebrate boys
momotaro’s battle cry
young warrior swings toy sword
Koi Nobori photo: CDHK link above
(Momotaro is Japanese version of David the giant killer)
nordic petroglyphs
16 Oct 2015 16 Comments
Bjorn posted his photos of petroglyphs for poetics prompt at dVerse
(this is also a bit of a gender bender for me writing from male point-of-view)
journal entry: 7,000 B.C.
rise early, dog licks face
snow falls outside cave
wrap fur, pull on mukluks
watch woman, she clucks
adds stick to fire, stirs mash
i’m tired of meatless hash
spring melting sludge
tie husky to sledge
take down light shield
and sharpen long spear
muck, luck run-a-muck
unload twice, runners stuck
traverse miles on hunt
dog smells moose musk
track down largest bull
kill and fill sledge hull full…
shout to woman, “I’m home!”
record big catch on stone
to eat a haiku
16 Oct 2015 3 Comments
taste color orange
munch sweet potato fries as
granddaughter drops peas
a fragile beauty
12 Oct 2015 11 Comments
autumn’s cold whisper
no more chemotherapy
leaf gently lets go
smile warm as salsa
leaving quilted memories
life’s classroom of love
haiku in honor of Loretta Veltkamp Wynia
bare passages
11 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in free verse Tags: birth, death, hospital
it was time,
they tore down the
community hospital;
insulated with asbestos,
warmed with memories of
loudly wet births of sons and
quietly dry death of grandfather.
life at dis-ease tries to heal,
bursting forth or fading away
within tired brick walls
now demolished,
dust to dust.
japanese doll festival
10 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in tanka Tags: doll, geisha, Japan
Linking with Carpe Diem’s Japanese festival series…
coif framed white faces
perfect features, painted smiles
geisha’s almond eyes
walk red carpet on dolls’ day
pass the chirashizushi*
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*Chirashizushi (sushi rice flavored with sugar, vinegar, topped with raw fish and a variety of ingredients) is often eaten on Girl’s Day festival.
trimeric crisis intervention
09 Oct 2015 14 Comments
in trimeric Tags: bully, guns, mental illness, violence
It’s not really about guns
maybe a lack of funds or
whether our society chose
the wrong kind of heroes
maybe a lack of funds
for helping mentally ill
who need treatment still
whether our society chose
to glorify ugly violence
media pumps nonsense
the wrong kind of heroes
who can bully baddest?
criminal suicide saddest
Mary is serving trimeric (poetic form) at the dVerse Poets pub
you are the gift!
06 Oct 2015 10 Comments
in free verse Tags: companionship, company, love, present
i’d like to think
companionship is gift
we give each other
mutual mutuality
congenial congeniality
a cup of tea and poetry
in the garden
beg God’s pardon
walked together three
traditions worthy
bring dear family in
closer company
grand alma mater’s
anthem sings loyal
camaraderie
as faith enables
hungry sinners join
around graced table
dare to cross borders
dare not burn bridges
open eyes to see
friendly faces in
surprising places
tap hearts deep spaces
to simply be present
(and mostly pleasant)
is love’s best present!
My gift to Abhra & friends at dVerse Poets and in observance of Random Acts of Poetry Day!
wakakusa yamayaki
04 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in tanka Tags: festival, fire, Japan
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:090124_wakakusa_yamayaki.jpg
day in peaceful park
tossing rice cracker to deer
night of mountain fire
japan’s yearly festival
dispute shrines or torch wild boar?
Festival review: www.fest300.com More haiku: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
a poem in my pocket 
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