The simple things

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Archives from August 2016 - Finding beauty in the simple things.   


Nature Haikus

Golden sunrise of spring
Melting the earth’s harshness.
Along with it, my heart.

   
House on the prairie 
Forged in stature & glory. 
Rooftop for a crown. 

   
Raindrops soft my vision, 
Yet in them I see clearly. 
What a mystery! 
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The feathers of koi

Ebb to the ripples & flow.

Light flits about the surface, 

Resembling lapis lazuli 

Flickered with specks of gold. 


I could gaze into the pools

& be lulled, like how how a nocturne

Caresses an infant to sleep. 


I could draw swirls & loops 

Till the fishes laid down &

The waters lapped me up. 


By then, I too, 

Would have drifted into 

An eternal peace;

A pasture of blue—

Shalom.

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Hi little flower, I want to know your name. 

I know I usually overlook you, 

But oh, how pretty you are!


The way the dew trickles down your skin 

To forms lucent pearls, 

& the way your petals fold delicately

At their edges,

Are all so pretty. 


Little flower,

You are so polite,

& oh so pretty. 

What is your name? 

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I don’t know how to comfort you.

I’d wrap my arms around you, 

But it’d only feel asphyxiating -

A grip of desolation. 


I don’t know how to comfort you. 

I’d spill out the words from my heart 

But they’d only sound contrived -

A jejune anthem. 


I don’t know how to comfort you.

I wish I did. 





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