What good is the present
If all we worry about
are other things?
Tag: Everyday Poems
Almost Epiphanies
Which shifts us more:
the storm
or
the aftermath?
On Exchanging Hope for a Broken Heart
Is it an equal trade to swap a past shattered by darkness and tear-stained pain for an airy ethereal elusive hope of the future? What is the tipping point, that … Continue reading On Exchanging Hope for a Broken Heart
Everyday Poem #22
Yellow finches flit and dance about in blue spruce morning dew impossible to discern the space in which sunlight ends and wings begin
Everyday Poem #21
Wishing pain on others for what they say do believe seek only serves to keep you small dark hurt ignorant and mired in the sticky-deep residual memory of what they … Continue reading Everyday Poem #21
Everyday Poem #20
What is the difference between faith and fate? A vowel or two? An extra letter? Your God or my Goddess? Or is there any difference At all? … Image courtesy … Continue reading Everyday Poem #20
Everyday Poem #19: Wish
What if that one true wish you’ve always held never arrives lost in the cosmos insufficient postage returned to sender no such address because the universe is in the process … Continue reading Everyday Poem #19: Wish
Everyday Poem #18
Is it true? Ask these razor-sharp words your mind shouts at your heart when obstacles block your progress when hurt dulls your happiness when indigo uncertainty spreads inky clouds of … Continue reading Everyday Poem #18
Everyday Poem #17
Beneath the broken yolk of sunrise, flowers like gauze– planted by moonbeam shafts streaming once white and singular and watered by the moon dreams of whispers between things never imagined– … Continue reading Everyday Poem #17
Everyday Poem #16
What if our only job in this very short lifetime is to wait pause breathe believe love expand be? … Image courtesy of Evgeni Tcherkasski from Pixabay
Everyday Poem #15a
I woke up at five am only to journal and walk and coffee and journal again (the second time with John Mayer) writing two things: one poem about broken promises … Continue reading Everyday Poem #15a
Everyday Poem #15
Yesterday left like a promise but what is a promise, exactly? The momentary words of one against a present yet unavailable The conditional happiness of another delicate, nebulous, dreamy, elusive … Continue reading Everyday Poem #15
Everyday Poem #14
Today I just want to be left alone in the rare chilly ache of a lemon August sunrise carefree in my cozy sweater and crazy unkempt sloppy slept-in ponytail cradling … Continue reading Everyday Poem #14
Everyday Poem #13
If we hold no space for hope what hope do we have? … Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay
Everyday Poem #12
How open is the space between your heart and what she wants? Will you only accept what you seek? Or is there a place for magic to work on that … Continue reading Everyday Poem #12
Words by Beth 