Monday, October 19, 2009
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
~ Meryl Streep Guardian Guardian of my heart with your quietness and beauty with your careful kindness even throughout the dreary and weary speak to me in the language of love you so gently craft and set to soar my heavy heart Talk to me of our blessings self-created or dropped upon us from the...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence,
listening to the silence" ~ Thomas Hood Calling Redolent with the aroma of wet leaves and soil dampened the air, moist and inviting, lures me into its season calling Kitchens scented with cinnamon and nutmeg to compliment apples fallen or squash and pumpkins baking arouse my senses into a season...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” ~ William Shakespeare
Honesty We gag and choke back ever so modestly the bitter pill or the freeze-frame elixir of humility We sip or ravenously drink from the glass of sincerity in the hopes that each drop swallowed will loosen our voice and give way to the purest words of temperance and simple yet bountiful honesty
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Friday, October 16, 2009
"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep” ~ Goethe
Shadow There are days when I walk with my shadow offering her both my thoughts and dreams and the slim goddess that follows me everywhere engages me in brilliant discussion We philosophize and share our yearnings Her footsteps in unison with mine remind me that my heart moves in constant beat and my...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Yes... even I draw a complete blank some mormings...~~~~~~~~~~
Blank As my hand holds the pen just as it has a hundred times before my eyes blink and blink again hoping for the words to fall Is it a curse or blessing that such effort is required Is the blank page the sum of my thoughts or is it inspiration emerging slow and deliberate I know that though my...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
"Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.” ~ Socrates
Dew Oh, those morning dew drops fragile droplets of divine if only I could drink them my world might be fine Tiny mirrors of hopeful resting upon each blade succulent little morsels caught not in fraught nor fray
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows
the open sea" ~ Balzac (Couldn’t track down the artist) Melt His eyes magically defying the woman I am shaping me into my better and best The colour not quite the same as mine but strangely alike with both shine and sheen His eyes filled with lovers flame leave me frozen in the dark and melting...
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Monday, October 12, 2009
"Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of overcoming it"
~ Helen Keller Leafless Leafless are the trees that stand bold and towering in the forest for they have understood changing seasons and silent weeping and responded with compliance They knew before me and those who followed that ending in the frost is not wounded or stricken and that hope is not...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
"...you are the window through which you must see the world” ~ G.B.Shaw
Riches The inheritance of wealth or honour or distinction is not without its pains The thrones we seek or treasures found are less important than our rhythmic, moving breath and the sweet calm of the invisible bounty; the riches found when our whispers hush the clamor The fortune of our vey being is...
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Que Sera Sera - don't you think? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Glass Though I ponder and ponder further and guard myself against the treason of questionable thoughts brewing and cast a shining light on que sera sera there remains a feigned smile upon my face and my eyes are dulled ever so slightly And though the waves of impartial to whatever everyone is saying...
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