Photo: S.L.
Let your wild side find the quiet corners
Where life’s merit leads you home.
Let the untamed within you carry favor
With bits knapped off of
Your lost soul.
Know the places that sustain,
The nooks where spirit laughs.
You’re at peace
At last.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: wild
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There’s no place quite like it
And yet it’s more place than one
Where the surf breathes the ocean
Onto bare feet and sand.
Photo: L.B.
As the sun
Melts the sand
Sprawls light on
Waves to ground
May the warmth
And the sound
Weave your soul
Astral gowns.
For The Daily Post
Find freedom in whatever small measures of peace you can.
It is yours for the freeing, yours for the making, your for the taking:
Freedom from stress, from strain, from hand-wringing worry;
Freedom from old tapes and older boxes;
Freedom from stale words and staler habits;
Freedom from harsh realities;
Freedom from histories repeated;
Freedom from bloated egos, punctured dreams, blame, sorrow;
Freedom from more-to-do-than-possible; unrealistic expectations;
Freedom from judgment–inside and out and in between;
Freedom from hate–it is not of you, never was.
Find freedom
In each breath. Each perfect petal of a flower, each song of bird;
In every new life born; all promise, all potential;
In everything you are, and everything you always had been,
but maybe forgot.
Find freedom in whatever small measures of peace around you.
It will grow.
For freedom expands like light in a mirror; multiplied.
You know.
Photo Credit: A.Asif
Maintaining Inner Peace …
It does not mean to have apathy to what is happening. It does not mean you don’t care. It does not mean that things do not touch your heart. It does not mean you have no feelings about what is wrong and should not ever be happening, but is.
It does mean keeping your center.
It does mean holding hope.
It means to not be swept up by anger, hate, frustration, worry, pain … Instead it calls for keeping a boundary of compassion (toward self and others) illuminated in kind care around one’s heart … to keep the dark in check, so it not wriggle in to take a hold.
It means acknowledging that darkness offers an opportunity for contrast, that in its universal way, it even serves to balance. Day and Night. Light and Dark. A difficult lesson. One I still do not fully understand.
It means seeking beauty. Seeing beyond the swirls and eddies. Smiling at the multitude of good. It never left: it is already–always has been, will be–there.
It means remembering what can be done. Not losing compass for the path that can be taken and still matters–integrity, empathy, listening. The way of heart.
Maintaining Inner Peace … It is a gentle breeze of calm in winds of other feelings. A sphere of peace, even in the midst of chaos. A home for the soul. A hand to offer without being pulled or tugging. A being.
Hope can be, is, restored.
And so it is …
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