Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.
Personal Journal
The next day
A relationship will eventually turn love inside out. And the test is whether you can love from both sides.
Petals & leaves
i love to
smell the flowers
and sniff the books
sitting in gardens
and library nooks
No, thanks
Don’t feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! —
simplicity is
saying yes to joy
by saying no to
overmuch
overwhelm
overdoing
overhaving
overbeing
Cozy inner child
Comfort is — buying an XL
flannel jacket for the winter
even though you’re only a medium
because it reminds you of your daddy —
and on that first chilly day
cold seeps in though the gaps —
but really you don’t much mind
because in your little girl memories
he’s keeping you safe and snuggly warm.
Westerly
sunset casts shadows
yet we see only colors
and glorious light
Blur
Aging is an exponential clock — ticking in runaway years.
Flow with life
You’ve got to keep moving to keep the beauty of life in perspective. If you hold still too long, things go blurry.
wørrier
You can never worry your way to enlightenment.
Heartwritten
Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer.
Iridescent
the years sprint, sail, drift, fly —
days melt into sleep
decades we no longer know
by taste or smell, yes
but hard fast memories tend not to keep —
youth lives on — yet, is long gone
birds chirp each spring anew
but our hearts sing the same shades
of childhood colors we once knew
Logic all
If the world were all logic, poetry would starve to death.
Narrative
Age composes poems
upon our faces —
with more meaning
and fewer rhymes
every passing year