Day: January 31, 2019

Pay It Forward Thursday- January 31, 2019

~ thereluctantpoet

Come share the piece you selected from an author you enjoyed this week!!

Go Dog Go Café

The baristas at Go Dog Go Cafe are big fans of Pay It Forward Thursdays. We think it is a great opportunity to give a shout-out to another writer who has wowed us or creatively inspired us. It a great way to share the love and pass it on to the readers. It also becomes a great pool for excellent reading stuff by your fellow readers of the WordPress community.

You are invited to post one link to one specific post of poetry, short story, or flash fiction, 300 words or less please, from someone else’s blog in the comments below.

Happy reading!

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Tropic of Can’t Sir

~ thereluctantpoet

Not afraid a polar vortex, I guess?? RIP – Paul

Poesy plus Polemics

"Winter Scene" By Currier & Ives At fineartamerica.com “Winter Scene”
By Currier & Ives
At fineartamerica.com

You can keep your equator and tropics.
I prefer the more subarctic latitudes.
When it comes to the weatherly topics,
I am partial to cool-headed attitudes.

Heat weakens my brain’s constitution.
It saps my cognition and reason.
If I had but one resolution
I’d name winter permanent season.

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a season saved for mary ~

~ thereluctantpoet

tornadoday

professing love for me_edited

what of words
one blessing fails –
a choir can hardly sing
to tell of grace
in all I’ve known –
a loving solstice
brings

as voices blend
in whispering –
the ransom of my will
to a season saved for mary
candles reaching –
higher still

red and virgin
blossoms bleed
beneath an old and crooked tree
verses of ten thousand psalms
– professing love
for me

I wonder
though not so often
how sweetly the path was grown
another way
from all I dreamed –
returns my soul
to home

. . .

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when you came for me ~

~ thereluctantpoet

tornadoday

backtome

where was I
when shadows crossed
into the darkest night
whispers held
of one more faraway
a name that knew
no sweeter tongue
than memories to taste

eyes denied
the light of
one more
day

where was I
when you came for me
a snowflake on a breath
of spring
a paler blue
of robin’s egg
held the blossom tender near
as a bud beneath
the sun drenched sky
a wish against
the wing

. . .

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Poem: Expanding Our Circle

~ thereluctantpoet

Come read Mark’s – Expanding Our Circle!

Crow On The Wire

Celebrating the noble
is shortsighted.
Honoring the privileged
may do us more harm than not.
The spiritually enlightened
perhaps are phantoms
who are not worthy
of our reverence or trust.

Loving our family, friends, and culture
is not a bad idea.
But isn’t there beauty in everyone.
Shouldn’t we give our hearts
to people who are hungry
and venture outside our inner circle.

There is a richness
in the lives of the neglected.
Admiration
for those who are outcast.
The disenfranchised
need a helping hand, too.
Not just the righteous and the good.

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Magic Man – Haiku – iScriblr

~ thereluctantpoet

Teasing my senses, He melts me like an ice pop, My man knows magic! This post is written in response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #238 – where you write a “HAIKU” using the prompt word. Follow this link to learn more about it, see other submissions, and to share your own. Come and join in the fun […]

Source: Magic Man – Haiku – iScriblr