Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring.
Victorious
This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.
Lion’s outlook
“I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.”
—Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, 1968
Nerve-inferno
Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.
Assault
help please police help
everywhere i go
chocolate’s being a’salted!
But seriously. Knock it off. Leave some of it plain for those of us who prefer our chocolate without condiments!
Welcome, Winter
Welcome, Winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but
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Angles
The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.
Seasonal emotions
Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.
Tide
Life is questions
and answers,
ebbing and flowing
in endless waves
Hard enough
If guilt or regret is an essential part of your grief, you will never stop grieving.
Rainbow’ish
Red is passion-lit, pink is lipsensual, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing,
Summer-nap
I drifted into a summer-nap
under the hot shade of July
serenaded by a cicada lullaby
to drowsy-warm dreams
of distant thunder…
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Fresh & green
Our bodies run on the fresh green fuel of the land.