Time for Stillness – My Weekly Poem 8/8/2022

Is there still time
for everything?
Will it all happen
while I’m still here?

So much of each day
I spend moving things
to and fro.
I wish stillness meant more.

I’ve thought about
all the things
I still have left to do
and I can’t wait for each of them.

And I want the stillness too.


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This poem was posted for the previous week’s poetry prompt, Stillness.

Happy Anniversary 8/7/2022

 

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My grand experiment to inspire people and share my poetry is two years old today.  After two years, I thought it would be fun to create best-of list. For this, I decided to use the measure of “likes”. This site has a humble following, so I had to use humble numbers when I looked for my most liked posts so far.

Here are the poems with 10 or more likes:

Here are the prompts with 7 or more likes:

After two years of posts and sharing in what they inspire, I have decided to take a break from my poetry and prompting schedule. I want to dedicate more energy to a recent career move and I will decide later if I’m inspired to start posting to this site again. So, tomorrow’s poem will be the last post for the foreseeable future.

Thank you so much to all that have read, responded, and offered encouragement on this site. I will continue to monitor comments here and respond if they come in.

Suburban Sentinel – My Weekly Poem 8/1/2022

In the sun I lounge
and wait for breezes
that bring everything
I need to know.

I sound the alert
with mighty shouts
at anything
that peaks my interest.

Then grateful ones
echo the call
until we stop
and return to watchful slumber.

The summer warmth,
the soft green grasses,
the yard is mine,
a dog’s life well lived.


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This poem was posted for the previous week’s poetry prompt, A Dog’s Life.

A Dog’s Life – Your Weekly Poetry Prompt 7/29/2022

Our prompt this week is A Dog’s Life.
Dogs are all around us. Sometimes part of our family, sometimes just part of the neighborhood. Write your poem about a dog’s life.

As always, please share your post in the comments, I will be happy to read it and share my thoughts.

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Moving Forward – My Weekly Poem 7/25/2022

Today, like all days
will unfold, slowly,
revealing the present
as we move through the world.

Our past pains
will come with us,
if we choose to bring them,
and all we carry informs our next move.

The future cannot
be known to us
but can be sensed,
like the sweet smell of coming rain
or the cold chill of coming danger.

All attempts
to reason with the future
will only yield anxiety
and disconnect from your senses.

So feel,
and know your feelings.
Set down what no longer guides you well
and step forward, boldly, into the unknowable future.


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This poem was posted for the previous week’s poetry prompt, Intuition.

Background Insecurity – My Weekly Poem 7/18/2022

As an image
of the man mom left
and not part
of the family dad kept,
it was slowly
that insecurity crept.

My successes
were somehow muted,
feelings of pride
always diluted,
I was free
but rarely supported.

And now we try
for quality time
busy schedules
both theirs and mine.
Most real meaning
still between the lines.


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This poem was posted for the previous week’s poetry prompt, Insecurity.

Insecurity- Your Weekly Poetry Prompt 7/15/2022

Our prompt this week is Insecurity.
If you haven’t noticed, this is the fourth prompt where I’ve chosen a word that may challenge you to dig a little deeper. I have also been challenging myself to post poems that dig a little deeper (thought the haiku from last week was a bit of a pull-back).

Write your insecurity poem and see how deep you go.

As always, please share your post in the comments, I will be happy to read it and share my thoughts.

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