Knowing it all is taking a photo thinking I’ve captured the beach.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
One-Liner Wednesday — Morning Sun
Author: Frank Hubeny
I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.
Revealing What Can’t Be Told
Amazing what this warm day brings.
The beautiful has its allure,
Reveals what can’t be told, and sings:
Obsession–longing for what’s pure.
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics. Lillian is hosting with the theme of picking product names and using them differently in the poem. I picked the “perfumes” category.
Photos: “Yellow Shading Into Red”, above, and “The Allure of Plants Is Everywhere”, below.
One-Liner Wednesday Badge Contest
The badges for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday change annually and the contest for the new badge has started. My entry is above. See the link for contest details.
Compassion
Compassion proves we can get outside ourselves, boxed in as we are conceptually as individuals, deluded in our isolation, but those who have it don’t need proof much as they don’t need proof of anything that shows our humanity. They know all of this and more is real.
RAIN CLOUDS OR SUN SHINE
THE BIRDS STAY CLOSE TOGETHER
TWO KNOW TRUTH AS ONE
Text: Linked to dVerse Haibun Monday. Xenia Tran is hosting with the theme of compassion.
Photos: “New Leaves Sharing a Tree”, above, and “Sharing the Park”, below.
Natural Patterns
Some patterns are so beautiful
We situate them so
Their shapes or smells or colors tell
Us how true love should flow.
Photos: “Blue Bells”, above, and “The Pattern of a Pine Tree”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Prompt with the theme “natural patterns” which in both of these photos have been, perhaps, enhanced by placement in a park.
Fallen #writephoto
They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, whose love for the Lord of Love has consumed every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.¹
This pair of stones once pointed tall, but now they’re near the ground. It doesn’t matter where they lay. May our ears hear what they would say with love without a sound.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”²
¹Bhagavad Gita 2.55, Eknath Easwaran translator.
²Gospel of Mark 12:30-31, New International Version
Text: Linked to Sue Vincent’s fallen #writephoto prompt. Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. Amaya challenges us to take two quotes from two different sources. Use one to begin the poem and the other to end it. I might be stretching this bridge building to think I can meet both of these prompts with one post.
Photo: This is Sue Vincent’s photo provided for use with her #writephoto prompt.
One-Liner Wednesday — Street Sounds
I walk through the woods to hear the sounds of the street become so soft they seem like a lullaby.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
Still Learning
Is it too late for what I know
To bring back breathing mystery?
The sky’s so deep. Spring breezes blow,
But poverty is what I see.
There must be more. This looks like less.
So I study. May I be
Recovered by what yearns to bless
And smiles with sure serenity.
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics. Mish is hosting with the theme of still learning. I feel like I am learning to unlearn much of what I thought was true.
Photos: “White and Blue and Evergreen”, above, and “Mild Breeze Moves the Willow on a Bright Blue Day”, below.
Muddle
This muddle takes its time to clear
All through my mind soaked haze.
If this breeze would calm my fear,
I’d choose to praise these days.
Should something else turn out to be
Fitting for eternity
May that with praise be right with me.
Text: Linked to dVerse Quadrille. De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is hosting today with the word “muddle”.
Photos: “Awakening with Green”, above, and “Underneath a Willow Tree”, below.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 