Ravaged

In Response To:

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #176 – Every Wednesday I post a photo.  You respond with something CREATIVE.

This desolate place

an embittered soul

with only a vague inkling

a memory of the vibrancy

that once was alive…

Now ravaged by life’s cruelty

cluttered in pain, sorrow, anger

aching for the Gardner to

tend and cultivate this

apathetic garden

that it may once again

thrive with blossoms of

hope, joy, and love

A bright light that

shall shine upon life’s cruelty

and defeat its purpose to destroy…

victory in defiance.

Word For The Day…

From:  Gratefulness.org

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

WENDELL BERRY

PHOTO BY ALAIN AUDET

Word For The Day…

From:  Gratefulness.org

There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.

ST. PAUL

PHOTO BY MICHIEL LEUNENS

Despair’s Cry Heard

In Response To:

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #350 – Chirp & Twilight

chirp in morn’s twilight

gentle sound of hope for soul

awakening life

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Heart’s Desire Fulfilled

In Response To:

Ragtag Daily Prompt – Blanket

Word Of The Day Challenge – Lukewarm

Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Dreamcatcher – March 4, 2021

Hope deferred 

is like a 

lukewarm blanket

in the heart

dreams and desires fade

I call to the Dreamcatcher…

Dreamcatcher catch for me

tears of sadness I cry and

return to me laughter

Dreamcatcher catch for me

the misery and despair and

return to me joy

Dreamcatcher catch for me 

this life mundane and 

return to me extraordinary

Dreamcatcher catch for me

loneliness in this heart and

return to me a soulmate

Dreamcatcher catch for me

fire that burns within the Sun and

return to me a passionate hope

setting free the lukewarm blanket

never to be returned.

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Proverbs 13:12 (AMP)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

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Blooms Of Hope

In Response To:

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #121 – Every Wednesday I post a photo.  You respond with something CREATIVE

My Response:

Photo Courtesy of Pinterest

Word For The Day…

From:  Gratefulness.org

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

MAYA ANGELOU

PHOTO BY ALEX BLOCK

Nature’s Promise

In Response To:

Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Winter – February 4, 2021 – Go where the prompt leads you and publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. Please keep it family friendly. Prompts close 7 days from the close of my post.

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #343 – Bare & Full

 bare of Winter’s trees

full with promise of new growth

awakening hope

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Photo Courtesy of Pinterest

Word For The Day…

From:  Gratefulness.org

There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other.​

WANGARI MAATHAI

PHOTO BY PAVLENKO

The Watch That Keeps Time

In Response To:

Word Of The Day Challenge – Hope

As I prepare to enter

into the new year

I ponder the good times 

before this year that

seem of a long time ago

finding them hard to remember…

~

As 2020 is laid to rest

with its devastation of

too many lost lives and

the Wisdom gained 

from painful lessons

due to lack of uninformed

choices driven by fear…

~

I now meditate on 

the new times with

faith they will become a

reality of cherished memories…

~

Alas, patience must persevere

while suffering through the surge

before the new times arrive so

I will let hope be the watch

that keeps time 

making it worth the wait!

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