Wavy water, sunny sky, Smiling while white clouds float by.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the prompt of “Liquids”.
Linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. My smile this week is much like my smile for the past weeks. Every day this past week has been an opportunity. I smile and hope I lived each well.
A miracle I’d like to see Might make some mountain slide. Explanations won’t agree. The miracle I’d want to see Would peel this raging heart from me That seeks a place to hide. The miracles I’d long to see Would make my mountains slide.
Linked to dVerse Quadrille where Mish is hosting with the word “peeling”.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “set in stone”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. That I’m here at all is enough motivation for praise, thanksgiving, hope and a smile.
Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where I am hosting with the theme of the triolet poetry form.
Morning’s sun takes evening’s dark To bring on light past gray. Fading stars in silence mark Morning’s sun with evening’s dark Like old fears swept away Refreshed by night for day. Morning’s sun takes evening’s dark As light wipes out what’s gray.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale’s theme is “the dark and the light”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. What brings a smile this week is waking up in the morning realizing I have another opportunity to smile.
From above on rocky hill I see green trees below me. The wind blows as it wildly will Far above this rocky hill. Distant curves of mountains fill Horizons blue like wavy sea. From above on rocky hill So many trees below me.
Linked to dVerse Quadrille where De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is hosting with the word “fill”.
Also linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “From Above”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. My smile this week comes from the memories of Palmer’s Park in Colorado Springs and the many hours spent walking there.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “nature as art”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. I smile when I realize how little my own efforts have had to do with things. I mainly had to show up and serve.
Imagine how you'd see in darkness With little for the eyes to do Then feel the texture of spring colors Daily gifts of red and blue.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “the textures of your life”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. My smile this week comes from memories of spring colors at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
They all were aiming the same way Though wild they’re organized. They chattered some. What did they say? I’d likely be surprised. Underneath I watched the sky. Two droppings were well placed. Some of them thought they should fly. One dropping missed my face.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Look Up”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. What made me smile was my own foolishness to stand for an unnecessarily long period of time underneath those birds. It gave some of them enough time for target practice.
Linked to dVerse Quadrille. Kim from Writing in North Norfolk is hosting with the word “wild”.
With roaring emotions fresh troubles may start. Soaring of insight warms a cold heart. Decide how this moment’s most fittingly spent. The iron of anger with kindness is bent. Doors opened outward bring shivers and cold, But sunlight, bright sunlight, though cloudy stays bold.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge where the prompt is “Outer Cold, Inner Warmth: The Comforts in Your Life”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. What made me smile this past week with gratitude was the acceptance by Kids at Heart Publishing of three of my poems for their future anthology.
Also linked to dVerse Quadrille where De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) hosts with the word “roar”.
The turning of the calendar Drops decades in the past. It’s not enough to worry me. The present tends to last.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Welcome to the 2020s”. Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile to welcome cheerfully a new decade.
Filled to overflowing; Still not full enough - Stones protrude. With water Walk away what’s rough.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme of 2019 and to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. I’m posting a couple of photos from this past year that made me smile. Happy New Year tomorrow night.
The poem is based on the difference between being filled and being full as described by David Pawson.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 