Kindness is a kind of glue.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday and Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays since kindness presumes some forgiveness.
One-Liner Wednesday — Glue
Imaginary Friend
My imaginary friend knows where I am. I’m on a quest to find that idea that will turn life right-side up again. It could be a fool’s errand, but I have nothing else to do. So if you’re looking for me, you might as well stop. I don’t have the answer–yet. Find the answer and offer to share it with whomever wants to know. Then, perhaps, I will find you.
SUNLIGHT AND SANDSTONE
MAGPIES FIND THEMSELVES AT HOME
SOMETIMES SO DO I
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics. Amaya is hosting with the theme “getting personal”.
Photos: “Sunlight and Sandstone”, above, and “Morning”, below.
Cobblestone Fear
Fear is round like cobblestones
Hampering my feet.
It looks as dead as dried-white bones.
It needs no more to eat.
I feed it nonetheless and so
It grows to my chagrin.
When it bursts that’s when I know
My breath flows free again.
Text: Linked to dVerse Quadrille Monday. De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo) is hosting and the word is “cobble”. I am also linking this to Jilly’s “Day 4 of 28 Days of Unreason” featuring poetry by Jim Harrison.
Photos: “Maple Lit by Streetlight”, above, and “Light and Dark”, below.
Wild Things
Kindness and Coffee
One kind word and coffee will
Open up my heart to you.
If you’re out of coffee, love,
That one kind word will do.
I wrote this while drinking a cup of double espresso with steamed milk at Java Punk Coffee in Colorado Springs. It was the best espresso drink I’ve ever had. The photos above and below were taken at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. I am linking this to dVerse Open Link Night.
One-Liner Wednesday — Superpowers
With all my superpowers intact I’d have figured that out in no time.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
Savage Gardens
Their last name made me think of something wild.
Their gardens with calm beauty eased my mind
Where innocence returned as to a child
And mystery was everywhere to find.
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics. Sarah is hosting with the theme of street names one of which is “Savage Gardens”.
Photos: “Garden Scenes”, above, and “Redbud Trees on Lawn”, below.
In the Country
On the land where we stand
Where the mountains are grand
Where the prairies the skies entertain,
Let us raise in our days
A perpetual praise.
Let the awesome combine with the plain.
Photos: “Somewhere Near Colorado Springs”, above, and “Iowa from Interstate 80”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Prompt with the theme “In the Country”.
Silent Sound
While walking through a garden what I see, and what I miss, is filtered through words sounding through my mind. I don’t talk out-loud to myself. I make sure these words stays quiet: silent words, silent sounds. I don’t mind my mind doing this. I enjoy the company unless it’s noisy, offering a wintry mood to a spring day.
There are times when I look about and my mind goes silent on its own. I assume, like me, that it is also stunned, as if to say, but not saying anything, staying really silent this time, “Isn’t that beautiful!”
LEAVES WAKE UP ON OAKS
SPRING LOOKS OUT AT EVERYONE
SILENT SMILING SOUND
Text: Linked to dVerse Haibun Monday. I am hosting this week with the theme “silent sound”, whatever that means to you.
Photos: “Ivy”, above, and “Oak Beauty”, below.
Like Day and Night
Although day does its best to delight
In the darkness my mind can escape
With the Sun giving rest to the night
Like a dream while the stars stay awake
When its setting is done
Retains full mystery
And the night turns to fun
And whatever may be
Then the Sun knows what’s done was done right.
Of the love that was done for its sake.
Text: Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where Paul is hosting featuring the form Contrapuntal Poetry. Here the limerick about the day hopefully adds counterpoint to the italicized one about the night.
Photos: “Maple Leaves in the Sun”, above, and “Calm Afternoon Waiting for Rain”, below.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 