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Tag: life lessons
Depths ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #317
Water of life
Cuts into stone
Reveals depths
To be plumbed
A hard journey down
A harder journey back
Rewards every step
Even the most painful
Construction ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #308
I look at myself
A blur
In the foggy mirror
Every morning
Even after washing away
Another layer
Of accumulated detritus
Like the sculptor
Finding the figure
Inside the stone
Like a cathedral
Not yet complete
A hundred years
After the passing
Of its architects
I remain a work in progress
Under construction
In this life
In the last
In the next
All that have been
And all yet to come
find a way
life finds a way
in the most inhospitable
conditions
places
times
to
survive
thrive
flourish
so too
can I
Towers ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #194
Every time I reach
Just a little beyond my grasp
I imagine myself a tower
With the pinnacle in my hand
Just a little beyond my grasp
I imagine myself a tower
With the pinnacle in my hand
Vulnerability
In time I began to understand
My vulnerability
Was more attractive
Than my strength
My vulnerability
Was more attractive
Than my strength
As I grew more confident
In being vulnerable
I began to understand
The strength in vulnerability
Moments Worth Collecting
Friends and phones and photos
The sharp attack
Of pigeon feathers fluttering
The sharp attack
Of pigeon feathers fluttering
At the park
On a sunny Sunday
In a timeless observance
Of time’s frivolous expense
Small moments accumulate
In a life worth living
Peeling
I study the frame
Seek the beauty
In the broken
The decrepit
And ugly
Seek the beauty
In the broken
The decrepit
And ugly
I find it
Almost always
A lesson as valuable
For the photographer
As for the pilgrim
Choices
Upon my shoulders
Rest a life-span’s choices
Rest a life-span’s choices
Some for good
Some for naught
Most with barely
Any thought
A good many
I regret
But the life
Which made them
I do not
I learned
I grew
I fell down
I got back up
A Little Sunshine in the Grey
On a grey day
I find a little sunshine
In some dark remnant of the past
Soon to be lost forever
I find a little sunshine
In some dark remnant of the past
Soon to be lost forever
On a grey day
I learn gratitude
For lessons of darkness
Which made of me a man
Who finds light
In the littlest things
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