Day: October 3, 2018

Unexpected Gift

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Writing and Reflections

Today is the first day of #OctPoWriMo – 31 poems in 31 days. I hope you’ll consider joining us! Love is the overall theme and today’s prompt is Surrender. This is my response.

wedding

It wasn’t until you

that I learned to

surrender

that yesterday didn’t

have to define

today

that true strength

comes from within

Even now when I’m

tempted to resurrect old

walls

I know you will stand beside me

while I revisit old

demons

that you will hold my hand

until my battles subside

Because of you

I surrender

I surrender

I surrender

to this gift

we’re building

together

photo: mine

prompts: OctPoWriMo 2018 – Day 1

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Library boy

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Siren Whispers

img_7251Once upon a time things were simpler.

Innocent.

Life is different now.

Complicated.

I think of you and an image forms in my mind.

Library boy.

You would have been that boy alone at the library table.

A stack of carefully chosen books in front of him.

I would have noticed you from across the room,

my own stack of carefully chosen books in a semicircle before me.

A fortress to hide behind.

A way to see without being seen.

I would lose myself in the silence that was the rule and which I breathed in with great

greedy gulps.

I would have noticed you in much the same way you become aware of the other lone

person in a cinema.

Watching a last run film and laughing at the same parts.

Kindred.

I would have been shy, never speaking to you or making eye contact,

but wanting so much to talk to you

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And ‘way leads on to way’

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Magenta Blues

Very few of the adventures we pursue in this life take the path we expect.  Whether it is navigating romantic relationships or any relationship, raising children, managing a career or learning to play an instrument, it seems that the notions we held of how things would go are often met with unforeseen, and often unwanted, surprises that criss-cross our path along the way.  Nevertheless, our human optimism for putting a plan in place, and daring to have expectations, seems to endure. 

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