In Response To:
What Do You See #136 – May 30, 2022
A cut soul bleeds
stained tears upon
her face
a betrayal so deep
words cannot express
her face
the completed masterpiece
sorrow’s beauty
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Image credit; Muhammed Hassan @ Unsplash
sorrows
Word For The Day…
Traversing
Unending road
filled with sorrows and joys
of unknown stories
yet to be told
yielding a passion
for soul’s
exploration
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Photo Courtesy of Pinterest
Pilgrimage Of Unknown Grace
In Response To:
Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #119 (12/28/19): New Year (Shinnen) – This week, write the #haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga) that alludes to the New Year (Shinnen), be it New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, the new year in general, etc.
life’s joys and sorrows
hopes, dreams and new beginnings
promises to come
expectations and let downs
in all these things are blessings
to behold in the New Year
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Photo Credit: Pinterest
Tears Of Light
Written In Response To:
BrewNSpew Cafe – Word Of The Week Challenge – Weekly Prompt – Let’s add a little twist to the challenge based on the quote by Hosea Ballou. You may use the quote or any part of it and/or the image for this week’s prompt. Stay cool and out of the heat and most of all have fun!
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
– Hosea Ballou.
tears of joy, tears of sorrow
Light pierces all drops of rain
that are shed by the soul
joy is borne from sweet sorrows wept
weeping is soul’s path to healing
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Photo Credit: Pinterest
A Vagabond Soul
Written In Response To:
Word Of The Day Challenge – Vagabond
Your Daily Word Prompt May 16, 2019 – Fortitude
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #87 – I give you a choice between two pictures. You can choose any one, or write two separate pieces for both, and link up.
I am using both photos for one piece.
A vagabond soul travels down dark corridors
seeking to find her purpose in this life
though year after year no answers come and
every so often she stops to look outside the window
to watch the people below on the streets enjoying…
friends, family, lovers…engaging life to the full
with a purpose for living, loving, and being loved…
she is happy for them but can’t help crying inside
wondering why she was never given these blessings
yet…in the depths of her sorrow she finds the
fortitude to continue to keep pressing on in the
hope that these blessings will one day be hers too
even though no one has ever taught her about hope
and has really never had a reason to hope since childhood
still, it is there, deep in her core as she has survived
a design for her life that has not been her desire,
her dream for the last two-thirds of her life and
she cannot help but ask…Has this hope led her astray?
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Photo #1 Credit: Prachika Saxena
Photo #2 Credit: Prabhakar
Blues – Tanka
field of flower blues
brings comfort to blues of soul
aroma is sweet
easing weight of sorrows gain
lighter is burden carried
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Photo Credit: Pinterest
This Gift From God
Rain so beautiful
soothing the soul
of pain taken hold
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Anger at the injustice
in this world
that will never end
until this world
has become new again
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Holding on to this promise
at times is so hard
defeating the spirit
until surrender is unbarred
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Then wailing the sadness
of the sorrows seen
and burden of cares
is released into unseen
~ * ~
In the light of a new morn
with hearts no longer torn
we fill with a strength
to go the length
and stand to advocate
for broken souls left devostate
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Photo Credit: wikipedia.org
Word For The Day…
From Gratefulness.org
Today the planet is the only proper “in group.” Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell
(Photo by Annie Spratt)
The Higher Compass
Changing directions
yet going nowhere
ending where it begins
a maze of circles…
Always seeking something more
to awaken washed ashore
drowning in lonely sorrows
hoping for better tomorrows
Running after empty pleasures
left with only costume treasures
desiring only what is real
a fulfillment ethereal
Only one place left to look
deep within the soul’s nook
it is there that it will come to pass
to hear the voice of The Higher Compass
Photo Credit: Pinterest
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