"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." ~ Maya Angelou Thanks for engaging with me here, I bless you.
Here's a poem I hope lifts your sprits to its highest realm. May it be like a beacon to light your dark hours. Because I'm rooting for you. Because you matter.
I wrote you a Tanka, dear friends. The tanka, unlike the haiku, is a less rigid form, and more casual than the haiku. It allows the imagination to help the poet express feelings. Today, my subjects sing loud while the ocean is a deafening echo that sounds like peace. It's the perfect time to write a poem. Enjoy.
Spreading the word on The Virtual Poetorium, May Edition where we play with words and laugh with flowers like Mother Earth. Come visit please.
Came out feeling bleak about our humanity after reading this book. But this is what good literature is supposed to do: land us in a better place. The Heart Stone: What an uplifting story.
Sweetness is all around us but sometimes we fail to see. Perhaps we're missing it because we're disregarding one crucial place? See what Rumi says.
... because these four points matter if we want to live in a kind world.
Heeding the signs I receive in my day to day activities. That's how this post came to be, and so I scheduled it for you. Now we're both in the know *wink*
measured with a ruler, graphed, or written, as algebraic calculation or like a histogram to be studied or memorized? How would you do it?
It's not a happy day when you get distorted yet lucid dreams. The war must end!
May there be light. May there always be light. Especially for our friends in Ukraine today.
Every day is a blessing, a small miracle. Notice it.