Day: August 12, 2021

Audio Poem/Podcast: Ode to the Berries, by Mark Tulin

~ thereluctantpoet

Crow On The Wire

Special shoutout to Lucy Dan and her fine site, The Brain is a Noodle, for publishing Ode to the Berries. And to Cecilia Par on Unsplash for providing the feature image.

Over the last few years, berries have been a major part of my morning breakfast habit. You can see me at the sink going through various berries, weeding out the bad and saving the good ones for my oatmeal. Sometimes I feel like Rafael Nadal choosing the right tennis balls. I just don’t take pleasure in chewing berry stems or ones that are too mushy. Enjoy Ode to the Berries. If the podcast is not up yet, please come back.

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Trust Your Emotions

~ thereluctantpoet

Be Inspired..!!

Don’t underestimate your emotions. Or overestimate them. Your emotions are your feedback system and for that they are very important. Trying to ignore your emotions is like depriving yourself from lights in a car running in the middle of the night.

We’re equipped with this fantastic set of tools called emotions, yet we chose not to use them. By fear of “breaking” it or just by lack of trust. Emotions are the most sensitive tool for assessing our path.

Positive emotions: we’re on the good track, negative emotions: there’s something we should work on. You may chose how to express your emotions if you want, but not trusting them would be simply stupid.

Look into your heart first. And then, if everything is fine there, bring everything in your mind for some adjustments.

How To Trust Your Emotions Without Getting Emotional

Fear, joy, sadness, exhilaration, all these are emotions. Feelings…

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in a charming moment…

~ thereluctantpoet

un p’tit je ne sais quoi

furtively, my night has clenched the stars
in your poetry’s dreams
pursuing the curvature of the life’s dance
encrusted by the dawn’s bones
with the flavor of love…

yours

thanks, Grace🙌🏻💎✨

Life — Grace of the Sun

Life will always get better,humming to my heartbeats song.Smiling through the rough weather,will help sorrows march along. Life engulfs in great beauty,I can sense each time I sing.All my thoughts have a party,inner flutters fly their wings. Life is mixed with laughs and cries,each released at precise times.Both bring tears into my eyes,at some point,…

Life — Grace of the Sun

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