Sunny Sunday – March 3

Today I decided to bring more light to the world.  Today I ask you to do the same thing.  Join me in posting something happy and upbeat, funny or serious but always sunny.  It can be poems, stories (real or fiction), pictures, quotes or music.  Let’s spread a little joy today.  Encourage each other with a little positivity.  If you want to spread that sunshine give me a link in the comments and we can light up the world together.  #SunnySunday

This week I am feeling a little introspective and wishing for peace.  Things just look a little murky up ahead and I am trying to stay in my day and not focus on the unknown of what this year may ultimately bring.  The US elections and tensions all over the world are looming on the horizon… but stressing does nothing by wear me down.  I am trying not to look forward much, but when I do look ahead, I want to do so with a positive outlook.  Positivity, that is what I am looking for today.  Do you have any positivity to share?  Please join me!

End It Now

Take a deep breath

Slowly exhale

Look towards the sky

With your dreams you can sail

From the top of the clouds

To the depths of the ocean

You can feel deeply

Each and every emotion

And tomorrow is in sight

With all of its hopes

And its destiny is ours

We pull all the ropes

Show each stranger kindness

Be full of peace

And the future can be happy

If hatred will just cease

Bing Image Creator

ZzzQuil

Bing Image Creator and me

Time ticks slowly

The world seems distant

Aware and unaware

I am on the outskirts of reality

Words take shape in the air

As I listen to a lullaby

Transitioning to that realm

Where restoration takes place

And dreams take flight

I quietly drift off

Into a medicated sleep

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – outskirts

Dreams in the Clouds

Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com

Like a broken wing

Grounding a bird

Whose only wish

Is to soar in the skies

My heart has been scarred

And aches to feel love

Your words forever

Haunting my soul

I need time to heal

And regain my strength

Then like the healed bird

I can fly to my dreams

And hope you will be

Waiting there for me

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – wing

Hopes Dashed

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Will my thoughts make you mine

Or am I just another dreamer

I had an idea you cared

But now I see the light

It was just hopeful wishes

And nothing more than fantasy

Now I am stuck with feelings

I know you will never match

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – idea

Pass It On

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She sat alone

A table for two

Waiting for a dream

The lilacs permeated

The warm Spring air

Making her believe

She sipped her tea

And ate her muffin

Knowing what to do

She paid the bill

And tipped the waiter

Leaving with a smile

She’d done her best

To spread some joy

For a random stranger

When the waiter came

He cleared the table

Finding a $100 tip

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – permeate

One Dream

I have looked for years

And I have yet to find you

They say there is only one

But what about a second chance

I had my one and only already

But now he is gone

So I continue to search

High and low and in-between

Hoping to someday find you

The one who will stand by me

The one who will complete me

The one who will love me endlessly

I know the odds are against me

But I can’t help but dream

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – search

I’d Call Him Anthony Tobias

I ride a majestic white unicorn

Across fields of purple flowers

We slow down by a fairy circle

Watching the diminutive dance

A slow pace takes us to the river’s edge

The unicorn drinks while I dream

Thoughts of princes and grand balls

Waltz through my mind

Just as the unicorn lays beside me

A melody drifts across the wind

I wake and begin to hum along

The music growing louder shattering my peace

KDRB blasts my good morning music

And I am in my bed facing a normal reality

But I grin in remembrance of the dream

Wishing I had a unicorn of my own

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – unicorn

In Her Dreams

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He stood at the curb, keys in his hands.  Her coat draped over his arm.  And he fidgeted back and forth waiting.  He looked at his watch and sighed.

He heard her heels clicking at the top of the stairs, “I am on my way Harold.”  She turned the corner towards the top of the stairs and was like a dream vision in her descent.

“You look ravishing my dear, that color really looks fantastic.  Are you wearing a new dress?”  She was suspicious, something didn’t seem right.  And then it hit her.  She woke up with only one thought, “If only he would notice me and what I wear.”

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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – ravishing

The Dance of Dreams

Drifting in and out of dreams

I begin to believe you are in my bed

I can feel your breath on my neck

Your arms embrace me fully

Our heartbeats combine in a tango

As fantasy becomes reality

We move as one

A dance of two lovers

Then just as quickly as you appeared

You disappear and I return to sleeping

Only to awake to your memory

Forever entwined with my heart

 

Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – combine

My Dream

A mundane existence

Is what I dream of

No nights of torment

No days of depression

Just an ordinary time

A few clouds in the sky

But no rain

Flowers growing

But no blooms

Perfectly in the middle

Never either extreme

To live life completely balanced

No highs

No lows

A mundane existence

That is my dream

 

Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – mundane