Spread your wings and fly
Let the wind lift you up
Dart through the clouds
Soar across the rainbow
Reach out wide
Let your wingspan grow
As you glide across the sky
May you find the freedom
To bring you full peace
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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – wingspan
I step outside now
Hoping for serenity
I feel the cool breeze
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Light streams through the trees
Like a flimsy sheer curtain
Filtering the sun
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I look to the sky
Finding comfort from above
Nature gives me peace
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I had to do a haiku for Haiku Poetry Day today and
Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – flimsy
Image credit – me
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
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
How are all of you doing this fine Sunday? I am having a third and final Christmas this afternoon… seeing my whole family today where we only do a name draw for gifts (I’d go broke if I bought for everyone) then tomorrow the tree and decorations come down for another year.
I am keeping things light today… quite literally. Hope you enjoy this acrostic poem.
Light
Laugh like there is no one judging you
Ignite the day with a bright smile
Give of your heart to whomever you meet
Have a song in you head to dance through the day
Teach joy and peace daily to all
…be the light you want to shine.
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Have a wonderful sunny week, stop and say hi to me on Facebook and I will see you all next week!
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
It is hard to believe this is the last day of 2023. I know a lot of people are doing year end summaries but why look back when you can wish forward? But this is not a resolution list either. Quite simply it is a carry over from the Christmas cards I sent out – Peace on Earth. What can I do to bring peace, even if it is just inner peace, love and light?
As we begin the countdown tonight (and it really is a counting up this year 12/31/23 = 1,2,3, 1,2,3) try to think about peace… I realize at midnight it will not be peace and quiet as we yell greetings of Happy New Year, but if we can just hold onto the word peace maybe it can spread like wildfire and ignite what we truly need in this world right now.
Stay safe tonight… party responsibly. Have a very HAPPY New Year!
As always on a Friday afternoon I reach back past the cobwebs to my old posts and share one from the tombs in a past year on this date. This week it is a young one, only two years old from 2021.
A Moment
I wish I had a moment
Just for a quiet repose
No pressures
No judgement
No endless thoughts
Perhaps today
Just for a short time
I can take a deep breath
And find a calm inside
A moment of tranquility
Where I can relax
Without the stresses
I face everyday
Without the pain
My body inflicts
Without being haunted
By my yesterdays
… perhaps for a moment
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For Fandango’s Flashback Friday (FFF) – July 28th
I wander through the day
Following blindly to lists of chores
Not focusing on more than
What is right in front of me
Then like a breath of fresh air
My life is renewed
When you are near
Your smile warms me
Your laugh embraces me
And your voice soothes away stress
My peace is with you
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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – renew
I sit in near silence
The tv on without sound
It’s gentle flickering light
Playing tricks on the mind
The hypnotic ticking of the clock
Lulls me towards a sense of peace
While the millions of thoughts
Bouncing around in my head
Hold onto other plans
A solitude I want
A loneliness I fear
At war with myself at 3 am
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – hypnotic
Take some time for yourself
Generate happiness within
If you find the peace
You’re looking for again
You can find new joy and hope
Then the future you want will begin
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – generate
She put the car into forward and pulled down the street. Turning the corner, she headed for the highway. She was stressed and so frustrated. She hit the city limits and accelerated to 55 MPH. Looking ahead of her there was only one car in the distance and no cars in the rearview mirror. She took a deep breath and let out a blood curdling scream for as loud and as long as she could. Then she smiled.
It wasn’t a big smile, just the smallest hint of one hitting the corner of her mouth. She was finally free. It had been a frustrating day with him moving out, but it was done and over and she had the keys back to her house… she could finally relax and not feel so alone while with people who ignored her. She could find a little peace and solitude in the time she was alone now. Not conflict and frustrations.
She turned the car around at the next turn and drove back into town. She would grab a coffee at the local shop and then go to her home and for the first time in a long time, feel at peace.
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – forward
Leigha Robbins 