The everyday is everywhere in sight
And I am wearied looking at its face.
It doesn’t seem to shine with truer light.
Its presence makes me think of wasted space.
But I’m the one who’s stumbling without grace.
Your smile is all I need to let me see
The mundane blessed afresh with mystery.
Text: Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. I am hosting Meeting the Bar today. We are celebrating dVerse’s seventh anniversary with septets, seven-line poems. There are no constraints on the poems for this prompt except that they have seven lines or contain seven line stanzas.
Photos: “Mundane Green with Setting Sun”, above, and “Mundane Car with Rainbow Light”, below.
A very interesting poem, Frank.
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Thank you, Robbie!
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How did you make the mundane beautiful?
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I like to think it already is beautiful. Thank you!
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How true xx
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Thank you!
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The wonders that a smile can light up!
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Smiles can do amazing things. Thank you, Peter!
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Love the last line!
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I am glad you liked that line. Thank you, Magarisa!
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A beautiful read on the amazing gift of everyday blessings. I specially love these lines:
Your smile is all I need to let me see
The mundane blessed afresh with mystery.
Thank you for hosting!
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I am glad you liked that, Grace! Thank you!
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Smiles are the light bulbs of the mundane world! I love the truth in this gentle love poem, Frank.
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Thank you, Kim!
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I am enamored most especially with the last two lines.
ah yes….the beauty of the mundane. I’m reminded of how, these almost five years now since my husband’s cardiac arrest and literally miraculous recovery, we often say, boring is good 🙂
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Good point. Boring can be very good. Thank you, Lillian!
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Nice thoughtful hopeful septet. Yup, we’ve all been there /stumbling without grace/. I appreciate your injection of white light in my dun day.
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I am glad it brought white light. Thank you, Glenn!
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Good point about “LiFE iN LiGHT And LiVinG DArk”. It is all living. Thank you, Fred!
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We too often fail to see the beauty in the mundane. I like that a smile revealed it.
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Simple things open up beauty. Thank you!
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A good one, Frank. It’s a marvel how our outlook changes when we’re ‘stumbling without grace’. I’m glad the days remain the same.
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Without grace it is easy to stumble. Thank you, Vivian!
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Indeed!
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A beautiful sweet longing in this poem, i am easily absorbed here
much love…
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I am glad you liked it. Thank you!
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Mundane to mystery… what a nice view of day to day!
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Thank you, Dwight!
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To see the mystery is key for sure.
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I like how when I think I’ve resolved a mystery and turned it into the mundane it turns itself back into mystery. Thank you, V. J.!
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May our minds never lose the awe.
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kaykuala
Your smile is all I need to let me see
The mundane blessed afresh with mystery.
How a smile can create beautiful reactions in the mind! Positively thinking, Frank! Great!
Hank
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Thank you, Hank! A smile does wonders.
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Even in the mundane moments of life – we can find little wonders. I think I’ve stumbled a bit here and there for sure.
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We all have. That gives smiles something to do. Thank you, Truedessa!
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Love the last line. Mystery shakes the every day routine with new light.
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Once it becomes mysterious again, it is no longer mundane. Thank you, Astrid!
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Nice work Frank. It is magical to find magic in simple things. Indeed, magic is around us!
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Magic is all around us. We take too much for granted. Thank you, Ben!
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Yes, the last two lines make a difference in our life. Great job, Frank!
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I hoped those last two lines would stand out. Thank you, Miriam!
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They stand out very well, Frank. I used to say, “Optimism is contagious.” When you smile, someone will smile back to you.
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Everyday is lovelier when shared.
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It is. Thank you, Kathy!
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Ah, that smile is certainly enough to make even the mundane delightful. That’s a lovely write. 🙂
-HA
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Thank you, HA! Smiles are powerful.
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Smiles ARE powerful! Great write Frank- you are the king of rhyme!
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Thank you, Linda! Smiles are powerful.
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How wonderful to go from stumbling grace to simple beauty.
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It’s nice to stumble into grace. Thank you, Sara!
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This is very inspiring! Creation is anything but mundane. So it has to be us blindly stumbling over the obvious!
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We take much of it for granted. Thank you, Mary!
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Your photos show such beauty, not at all mundane but guess the poem really suggests with its final twist that we need to share our world with someone who can smile and lighten us up!
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It is easy for us to miss the beauty around us and become trapped inside ourselves with our mundane judgments. That smile draws us out. Thank you!
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“Your smile is all I need to let me see
The mundane blessed afresh with mystery.”
By coincidence, I have lately been thinking about those few things in life that bring about to some extent or another a renewal, a rebirth in us. Certainly they include unconditional love — I think that’s the greatest of them. But also perhaps to a lesser extent, beauty, gratitude.
Very good poem.
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Unconditional love is difficult but how peaceful and life-giving it must be to have it–worth all the difficulty it offers. Thank you, Paul!
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The smile of a loved one can certainly turn the mundane into mystery.
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It is amazing what smiles can do. Thank you, Abigail!
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I really liked “blessed afresh”! Love the contrast between the mundane and the moment of re-awakening.
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It is a kind of re-awakening. Thank you!
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A good way to think about life, Frank.
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Thank you, Merril!
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Much our lives are repetitive routine, but it truly is our fellow humans and nature’s beauty that keeps the sense of wonder and mystery, lovely well structured poem, with a sweet nuanced contrapuntal twist. Beautiful
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Thank you, Lona! Others and beauty knock us out of our routine.
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You are the second person who told me that a smile could brighten up my day. I think I’ll flash one abroad. Hope I don’t scare anyone, lol.
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I hear that smiling (even when one does not feel like it, but not so much laughing) can makes one’s body healthier. I suspect smiling can’t hurt–unless its scary. 🙂 Thank you, Mark!
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Excellent poetry, Frank. Also the accompanying picture is quite a beauty!
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Thank you, Jay! I am also glad you liked the photo.
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