ANOTHER NEW BEGINNING
70 Poems for 70 Days
often including a complementary photograph.
With linked poetry, a form of Japanese Renshi poetry,
the last lines of one poem are used to form the title of the next poem,
then the next poem shifts to a different topic.
I hope you find a few entries that bring a smile to your face or a long buried memory to the surface of your consciousness. Poetry is like that, whether you are the reader or the author.
70
Waiting
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She
glanced
down at
the water
again, whispering
a prayer.
Maybe
one day the brave little
girl
would open the eyes of the world.
She
would demonstrate how change, by way
of acceptance rather than argument and discord,
would
benefit
everyone.
Was this
a goal worth
waiting for,
as death
stole the hearts and souls
of families
while they knelt to offer pleas?
Sons
and daughters breathed their last, as they
each believed
they too had made life safer back home
She
whispered
a
second prayer,
eager
to believe, along
with those
sons and daughters
of
revolutions, there would be an end.
As she
waited, tiny flowers drifted across her
field
of vision. The yellow blossoms reminded her
anything
is possible
She smiled
The universe
smiled
back
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AUTHOR’S
NOTES
These seventy poems were penned, not to confront or analysis a life endured but to give thanks for and to better appreciate a life well-lived.
Had we, all of us, not fully
experienced every moment of past years as we did, then everything we
encountered would have evolved differently. Our altered actions would not only have
eliminated our tribulations but a vast amount of pleasure, blessings, and joy.
If even one of these poems gave you
reason to laugh or cry with tears of remembered joy, please feel free to
contact me to share a nostalgic moment.
Great lines. I loved this one.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Best wishes to your for a happy holiday season and a terrific 2017!
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