Spin a yarn of wonder
Knit together words of hope
Cords of every color
Loop so hearts may cope.
Weave a warm new cover
From yarn old and fine
Find ways to discover
The love intertwined.
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Current events
Breathe in
Breathe in the scent of spring
The fragrance of new growth
Of verdant leaves
Of rain
Of flowers.
Let new life fill your lungs
Your heart
With light
Perfumed by sun
And sky
And sudden showers.
Breathe in your fill
Of hope
Of splendor
Stock up your mind
With awe
To brighten
Any dreary hour.
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Knackered
Photo: today.com/parents
When you’re out of juice
Depleted
Wrung out
Brain-mushed
Yawn-injected …
Take the time to rest.
When you’re harking for the days
Of face plant in spaghetti …
It’s time for slug-fest.
When you’re putting keys in fridge
And eggs in pockets …
Take the hint
And
Make a nest.
[Dedicated with much love to Adele, who I have a feeling understands … :)]
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Do Not Be Silenced
- The Children’s Memorial, Yad Vashem
In remembrance of times
Of horror
Never to repeat
Never to minimize:
Do not shy
Of voice
Do not shy
Of fact
Do not shy
Of holding truth
To challenge
Those who in their blindness,
In their hunger to cause pain,
Seek to deny
The cost of hate
The force of harm
The voice of those who had been silenced.
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Do not be silenced.
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Be brave.
Walk tall.
Remember:
Those who seek to silence
To zip history closed
To limit learning,
Can only do so
If they make you forget
The truth
Entrusted to you — to all of us —
By those who’d perished
And those who’d managed
To survive.
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Harmonics
- Image: John Whitney
As the sound of sorrow multiplies
So does the song of hope.
As fear reverberates
So can circles of compassion.
As hate amplifies,
So does love.
We can choose.
Which harmonics
To make ours.
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Counter-Spike!
Dhammakaya Temple, Thailand: 100,000 Monks Praying for Peace, (Luke Duggleby)
There’s a spike in crime. There’s a spike in hate. There’s a spike in divisive talk around the country, world, the internet.
There’s a spike in violence, a spike in stress, a spike in power-hunger, a spike in blame.
Let’s spike a counter-spike, to douse the flames.
Let us spike in kindness. Let’s bring a spike in care. May a spike in love envelop everywhere. …
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May You Be Jolted
May you be jolted into awareness.
May your heart slide ajar to the world.
May you see with kind eyes.
May your love shake
The very foundations
Of soul.
May your spirit thrust wisdom
Of long known compassion
Into all that you are
And all that can join you
At the core of the call
To be more,
To be all,
To be whole.
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Measure of Hope
In every time of
Hardship
There is a
Measure of
Hope.
In every time of sorrow
There is a
Measure of
Love
For what was
Lost.
In every uphill struggle
There is a
Measure of
Vistas
To be reached.
In every battle
There
Must
Be
A measure of
Understanding
For the
Absolute
Necessity
Of
Peace.
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It is Time!
It is time to be a listener.
It is time to look
And see.
It is time to know the difference
Between opinion
Fact or
Dream.
Yet it’s also time to tell some stories.
Time to let the mind roam free.
Time to open hearts
To conversation
To let imagination
Be.
And it is past all time
To hold compassion.
It is time for patience, too.
Time for kindness
For remembering
The essentiality
Of holding
You
As well as
Me.
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Unravel
Sooner or later
Truth emerges
Undeterred
To patiently unravel
Falsehood
And
Disentangle
Reality
From the sticky hands
Of lie.
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