Thankful

Gratefulness ensues
Because even in poverty
Of diminishment
There exists surfeit
Of blessings and no
Lack of need fulfilled.
Many gifts are present
To keep the self together,
Content with assortment,
Equal to abilities;
Examples provided
Regular exhibit.
Aware Christ inhabits
The world as assuredly
As these words proceed;
His provision is
A presence undeniable,
Praises rise to Him
Accrue, always, forever
For all is bestowed by
Bounty of His grace.

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Writing rattles in
The shuttered windows of mind,
Begging them open.

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I took a nap after these because I slept only three and a half hours overnight. Caught two hours.

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As a prompt, if you are able, create something that denotes your experience of gratitude in life. What you are celebrating now, or perhaps how the quality has changed.

Missing

It is every day,
Lived, absent your toothbrush in
The cup by the sink,
The cooking a tragedy
One meal a problematic measure,
Eating alone, emptiness,
Indigestion, unpleasant;
The house a hollowness
An echo chamber where
Your laugh almost erupts,
But no, your grin has departed,
A vacancy, no sale, no rent,
The days and nights a hazy daze.

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His being so rare
A tremble of vocals sure,
Might never have been.

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The quality of
Light, bare trees and fallen leaves,
Spring awaits entrance.

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The diamond splatter
Of fresh shed, newly rendered
Tears touched, breaking hearts.

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Today has been that day a writer dreams when words soar onto pages as if they are eagles taking wing. It is funny because, physically, I am fighting instability. I hope that some of what I have written has touched you as it has me. I am catching myself singing and smiling and being almost at peace.

Position

We enter each day
Carrying our choices over,
Willing enough to
Sacrifice an unwritten
Freedom to bonds
We continue in restriction,
But
We can choose differently,
Choose love, opportunity,
Set what saddled us
Before, aside, becoming
No beasts of burden, laden,
Instead, people learning.
Adventure
Awaits when life is
Recognized as immensity,
Blessing, valuable treasure,
Appointed for joy, seeded
With inexhaustible possibility,
Delight
In loving one another
Gifts bestowed on each of us,
Creativity which ennobles
Our immeasurable spirit,
Life beyond the norm
Turning all present into
A beauty transcendent,
Inexpressible joy enfolds;
Celebration.

Through Support

They are lit, limelight,
Center focus, open stage,
People we adore
Though rare speak we in homage,
They are loves, pleasures, and more.
When we think, purpose,
Reason to continue on
Our meaning, given,
Those relative unknowns who
Populate our lives are enough.
Sometimes memory
Must sustain us over years –
Because loss appears,
But recollection carries
Us through times of doubt and fear.
Those brave-hearted souls
Who inspire, we always have
Within us retained
To bolster our courage in
Times when giving up is easy.
Quiet warriors,
Unremarked these denizens
Of love’s sweet country,
Are life, breath, health, sustaining
Every achievement, gain, deed.

Impression

The reach was further
Beyond ordinary magic
Than creative imagination
Allowed
Love, though, remained unbound
Like the expanding universe
Unbordered by any expectation
Concocted
By human mental faculties
Enshrouded in a limited matter
Hoping to transcend experience
Lifted
Outside into the rarity
Of all that passes for probable
Infinity, which is only uncountable,
Justified
This love, faces, races ahead present
To present catching heart
Kindling immediate need open
Desire
Calling alive each precious life
Birthing every impossibility
Which grows, becomes, builds,
INSPIRES.
Seeing, what is seen?
Knowing, what knowledge is known?
Becoming, what change is, becomes?
Impression
Lies in between thought and reality
The unwilling limit, calculated
In freedom, love redeemed,
Creativity.

Fear is a strong force
Often able to strangle
Warm feelings of love.