After the eleventh, I wondered why I ate the first, and then ate the last.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
One-Liner Wednesday: A Dozen Donuts
Seagulls
Attracted by the morning sun And by the people who Toss wondrous crumbs into the sky That every bird with brains must try. What else is there to do?
A Wet Weekend
Today, I’m glad and feeling fine. My thoughts are cloud-free clear. Tomorrow rain may soak my roots Nourishing those fresh young shoots While I am standing here.
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “a wet weekend”. My weekend was more like the photo below than the one above, but they both have water in them.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. I have been taking this past week morning walks starting around 5:15 AM to watch the sun rise in Techny Park (Northbrook, Illinois). Watching it rise through the trees and then being reflected on the pond has made me smile.
Reflected Sunrise
Morning sun in neighbor’s window, Pond reflects the cloudy sky. Should I search, distort the season, Expose the surface, buttress reason? Look. Stay true. Don’t fear the why.
Dream
How purely does the heather bloom With humble, purple praise. Delight in sunshine on the hill. Distant clouds do as they will. Dreams refresh our days.
Linked to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt. The photo above comes from Sue Vincent as the theme for this prompt.
Wind
A steward cares for what he does Not own. And if we'd dare unwind The miracle, perhaps we’d find The sorry tale of who he was. He left that, who knows where, because The Spirit’s wind blew long ago. Why did it come? He does not know. He’s glad, more glad than anything That used to make him smile or sing - Across his life such breath would blow.
Linked to Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge. The prompt word is “wind” to be used as the rhyme in the second or third line of this ten-line poetic form having eight syllables per line and a rhyme pattern of abbaaccddc. I used it as “unwind” in the second line.
One-Liner Wednesday: A Proverb for Fish
Beware the hook of lies beneath the worm of truth.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
Forces of Nature
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “forces of nature”. The top photo is a storm coming in on the Atlantic Ocean and the bottom is Tennessee in the fall.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The weekly Smile. We took a road trip from Florida to Illinois over the past three days going from very hot and humid to still hot weather. On the way there we stopped at a beautiful rest area in Tennessee around the Cumberland Gap on Route 24. It brought back memories which made me smile. The photo below was taken in the fall a few years ago of that rest area heading south. Last Saturday we were on the other side heading north.
Silver
Rippling water Rippling beach Calm and sunlight Within reach
Linked to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt “Silver”.
Story
Oh, that is a blessed story. Defeated, now arise, renew, Unchained, inspired, come ride on through Darkened, deadly territory. Everlasting praise and glory - How light prepares the morning's run And nighttime rivals daytime's sun. Breathing freely and rejoicing Singing words we all are voicing This story ends. It's never done.
Linked the Ronovan Writes where the theme is to use “story” and an A or C rhyme in a Décima, a 10-line poem in 8-syllable lines with rhyme scheme ABBAACCDDC with optional stanza break after the fourth line.
The illustrations are some of my photos while walking in the neighborhoods of Miami Beach. They may or may not relate to the poem depending on your imagination.
