Those held earthbound
are cheated of the birds-eye views
that put the vastness of life
into greater perspective.
Those perpetually airborne
miss the intimate details
that keep our daily lives
in grounded perspective.
Those who soar
with an eye for potential
and touch down
to solid reality
experience life
with a sound perspective
within which ideas
can take glorious flight.
The Daily Post daily prompt: Cheat
I wanted to get away from it all, even though
I didn’t know what “it all” was exactly.
I just knew it wasn’t where I was,
and it wasn’t
sitting within the same walls and
looking out the same windows and
thinking the same thoughts and
falling into the same rutted patterns
of my daily existence.
I searched for someplace remote
but near civilization,
rustic
but with amenities,
in the wilderness
but not too wild…
and I found it:
a cabin
in the woods
in a forest
that I had thought only existed
in my dreams,
and it was
sitting on a porch
with my closest family members
looking at wildlife and tall trees and mountains in the distance,
thinking more expansively in the vastness of the forest,
falling into new patterns of peaceful companionship,
and while getting away from it all
I discovered that “it all”
is actually a matter of perspective and
is always
exactly where I am.
The Daily Post Discover Challenge: Designed for You
The Daily Post daily prompt: Learning
When I look into your eyes
and see the profoundness within,
I am thankful that your spark of wisdom and grace
has been added to this
wounded and ailing planet.
When you look out
through those sparkling windows
at the chaos of the world to which you’ve come,
I doubt you are thankful
for the brokenness into which
you have been born.
But perhaps
in your wisdom and grace
you see healing and hope for this world
if only we would all
open our windows.
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Profound
I don’t understand. Don’t understand what? Exactly. Exactly what? I don’t understand exactly what. I don’t appear to understand, either. Exactly.
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Unpredictable
darkness doesn’t drown when light floods the premises it hides in shadows
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Darkness
layer with layers a flight of fancy feathers bestowed Best of Brood
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Layers
can you imagine lemmings without a leader? who would find the cliff?
It is a popular misconception that lemmings jump off cliffs in mass “suicide.” Some species do migrate in large groups when populations become too dense and may encounter losses when — for example — trying to cross swift rivers. As a metaphor for unquestioningly going along with popular opinion, though, it creates a great visual.
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Autonomy
my head in the clouds cats and dogs swirl around me soon to be raining
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Clouds
fortune rolls off me like water off a duck’s back slips through my fingers
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Water
conditional love withholds nothing of value deprives you, not me
The Daily Post one-word prompt: Deprive
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