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Category Archives: Poetry
Love Comes in Small Pockets
Originally posted on insight07's blog:
Sometimes I think,Love comes in small pockets. Small enough to hold buttonsButton brown eyes, lazy and playful. Small enough to hold vials of honeyHoney words that have been whispered in between kisses. Small enough…
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged beauty, blogging, expressiveness, Featured Blogger, love, nature, tenderness
8 Comments
Reaching Your Destination
Thought for the Week To you who are in emotional travail who long for healing now right here where you are I want to say healing awaits because it does But it is not here It is in a place … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry
Tagged anxiety, destiny, God, healing, journey, motivation, purpose, thought for the week
39 Comments
Where Will I Go From Here?
There’s something about midwinter. Perhaps because it’s too cold to go outside, we’re forced to look inside and assess what we see. “Do I like who I’ve become? Is this who I thought I would be?” January’s vows have vanished … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes
Tagged Christina Rossetti, cold, February, life, personal growth, purpose, snow, winter
11 Comments
A Heart in Pain
Originally posted on Benyapoesy:
Agony. I dress it in suits. We take long walks in the park, on the streets at the calmest places giving the weirdest look. How this might come up? I have no idea. Nothing is weird…
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged blogging, crisis, existential, Featured Blogger, heart, lonliness, wandering
4 Comments
What Winter Teaches Us
Thought for the Week The last leaves tremble on the ground as the snow arrives to cover them securing the peace that they have found whispering rest and think and start again ζ
Writer’s Block
Originally posted on Essentially Ellie:
I’ve been sitting here all day, staring at the clockI’m trying to write a poem, but I’ve got writer’s blockI’ve got several partly written, but none of them seem rightAs I’m looking at this naked…
Posted in Humor, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged blogging, England, Featured Blogger, frustration, life, wit
8 Comments
Ants Doing Yoga
Originally posted on John Malone:
Ants Doing Yoga I was watching ants filing back and forth the other day When two pulled ovef for a chat; and I wondered how it was They knew each other seeing they all look…
Posted in Humor, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged ants, Australian, blogging, Featured Blogger, whimsy, yoga
22 Comments
The Weeds
Originally posted on Poet Rummager:
I don’t make wishes anymore. They float away. Unrestrained Clutching the earth Sinking teeth into dirt Sprouting into monsters Once held in captivity Now wild and rampant Behold the weeds of my iniquity. _____________________________________________ Psalm…
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged collectibles, Featured Blogger, iniquity, Psalm 51:5, sin, struggle, weeds
8 Comments
Do Drowned Leaves Dream?
Do drowned leaves dream of the lives they once lived in the sky while living leaves ponder the fate that awaits by and by?
A Calm in the Midst
Some speak of the calm before a storm. But there is also a calm in the midst of storms, one that comes from knowing you are not alone. §
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged calm, Deuteronomy 31:6, fear, Halloween, storms, trust
11 Comments