Good morning everyone.
Posted on 01/02/2006 7:52:08 AM PST by Soaring Feather
I do read your thread and missed it,here is wishing for your inspiration:)
Thank You, fatima. I am happy to know you enjoy coming here. We poets appreciate it very much.
Memoirs
The long road, it falls away before me,
and I strain to see the place yet unseen,
over hill and dale, across glens along an azure sea.
The wind sings of distant places out there,
and I set my load and into the wind I lean,
seeking the new along the road with special care.
My journal, filled each night by the fire,
holding a story of places I’ve not yet been,
and I read them in renewed wonder, until I finally tire.
One day I shall set them in order, mark it clear,
so another may take a journey from a chair then,
and see the many wonders my memories do hold so dear.
Ah, nice poem, you're riding your bike again.
Eric Hoffer wrote, "The fear of becoming a
'has-been' keeps some people from becoming
anything."
My dad sent that quote to me yesterday, or was it the day before.
Yesterday, I had a very scary reaction to an antibiotic,
and having walked that close to the valley of the shadow of death,
my pen fell silent for a day.
Maybe two! Today I may be recovering from yesterday.
Oh dear, so sorry. I have had those reactions too, and they are scary. Did you get the hives?? That's usually what happens to me. Did you have to take steroids?? I have been that road, too.
I turned boiled lobster red over most of the body I could see, had a horrendously painful stomach spasm and a lower gi housecleaning, disorientedness, and uncontrollable shivers. No itching, no hives, and I am lucky that I didn't have breathing difficulties. I was home alone, and all I could do after the tummy problems eased off was crawl into bed.
No more augmentin for me!
They put me on Biaxin instead. So far, so good. All this because my 17 year old keeps bringing home infections for me. Flu, then an upper respiratory virus, which in my case, went into a sinus infection. I have had one upper respiratory thing wrong after another since December, when it started with an ear infection.
Prayers offered for a full recovery today.
No itching! God spared me that one! But my skin is still tender.
(I had nervous hives for most of 6 months. I know how awful that can be!)
"Ah, nice poem, you're riding your bike again."
Nope, due to the lack of hiring around here I had to sell my bike. (hard to do!) Otherwise we wouldn't have had much of a Christmas, living out of the truck! Sad to be 'over-qualified' refused a job because you know how to work, want to work and so forth
Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt."
Today is Thursday. Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2006 with 339 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter,
Pluto, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars,
Uranus and Neptune.
Thanks for the ping :)
Rabindranath Tagore wrote that, "Trees are the
Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening
heaven."
Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2006 with 338 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter,
Pluto, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars,
Uranus and Neptune.
Tipping Points
In the space of a single moment,
In the space of a heartbeat,
an inhaled breath,
everything we know can change.
Conception,
one moment, just a single person there,
the next,
two lives,
two persons,
two souls.
Death,
one moment there,
alive,
a enfleshed soul,
the next,
an empty husk.
Salvation -
One moment,
lost in the darkness,
the next,
touched with the healing light
of the loving God
who longs to hold us.
In the space of a single moment,
In the space of a heartbeat,
an inhaled breath,
everything we know can change,
tipping points
that reach out to eternity.
Good morning!
WOW very powerful poem today. I especially like the title.
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