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Wordless Wednesday – October 10, 2018
Autumn In The Garden (Poem by Henry Van Dyke)
Autumn in the Garden by Henry Van Dyke When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves Over fallen leaves; Then my olden garden, where the golden soil Through the toil Of a hundred years is mellow, rich,...
senescent (poem)
Senescent (adjective) growing old; aging. Cell Biology. (of a cell) no longer capable of dividing but still alive and metabolically active. As in: trees laughing leaves, dropping down on me, floating in the wind. I catch a handful of laughter, toss it back in the air....
Wordless Wednesday – October 3, 2018
Besides the Autumn Poets Sing (poem by Emily Dickinson)
Besides the Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson Besides the autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the haze. A few incisive mornings, A few ascetic eves,— Gone Mr. Bryant’s golden-rod, And Mr. Thomson’s sheaves....
This World Has Octobers (quote)
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -L.M. Montgomery, in Anne Of Green Gables
One More Day
The wind whispers in the leaves, "Change is coming, can you hear it?" Autumn breezes softly blow and colors subtly change. The wind scatters the few fallen leaves like my thoughts. That is when I remember the Holy Spirit moves like the wind, a gentle reminder to me...
Reaching Beyond Rejection to the Truth of His Love
The feeling of being left out hit me in the pit of my stomach; once again, I felt rejected. I was blaming others for their rejection of me, but there was a deeper issue. I remember the day a friend named it in me, asking me why it seemed I wanted to run from her. I...
Wordless Wednesday – September 26, 2018
Poetry (quote)
(photo source: unsplash) Poetry is language used with intensity. It is not, as so many suppose, decorative speech. Poets tell us what our eyes, blurred with too much gawking, and our ears, dulled with too much chatter, miss around and within us. Poets use words...
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