The Promise: We Begin the Year with a Clean Slate
May the first days of the new year help us to form patters for how we wish to grow: in awe, hope, gratitude, and optimism. xo.
May the first days of the new year help us to form patters for how we wish to grow: in awe, hope, gratitude, and optimism. xo.
What an apt last prompt at dVerse: A Kwansaba poem in praise of family --I love it. Thanks. I wish you all Joyous Celebrations and the company of people you love to share it.
Of cobwebs, windmills, and fragments. Poetry for dVerse.
All Rights Reserved © Selma Martin 2021 It's not easy to do, but try to stay the course even in the midst of hardships. How? By choosing to live in the moment. Hope you enjoy this one.
These things I remember, and I remember them well: Father brought us white Christmases to revel and to boast, and Mother brought us Christmases to last forever.
© 2021 selmamartin.com (exclusively) Show me proper courtesy if you wish to reblog this, and ask for written permission to repost. Thank you. This is what I learned today: "a Conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness” and that “a comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness." Wow. I wonder how I did...
Cliff jumping? Rock diving? This mother says, “No thank you.” What about you?
Taking a fantastical wild ride with the wind like I ‘used to’ in yester-years. Come ride with me, why don’t you, as together we explore this new Zéjel form that’s a Spanish form with lovely history: Arabic influence related to the Qasida and adopted by the Spanish troubadours of 15th century. Enjoy.
The scary part about finding a spider in your bedroom is NOT seeing them on the wall; it gets scary when you don’t see them run off somewhere else. Sheesh. And then you spend the entire night tidying your bedroom. Right?
A Novelinee for the Ninth of the Ninth month of the year. Enjoy.
Poetry for September: Go bananas, Get your groove on Fall, I Luv ya' Life is groovy...
Oral Poetry. Oh, yes, I like this. Hope you enjoy this one too. And the squanderer reforms his old ways...