when the air turns crisp
with slippery leaves underfoot
the ground a canvas
Tag: micro poetry
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The “Friend Finder”
As the boats sail by,
each of us is an island.
Will they come ashore?
A man who has friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24 (MEV)
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Begin Again
Just how much longer
will the changing leaves stay green?
End. Begin again.
“There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Steadfast
Photo by Gary Fultz on Unsplash
so many a storm
slowly dissolving the rocks
the steadfast lighthouse
Sturdy wild flowers.
Do you ever contemplate
how soon comes the fall?
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”– 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV)
Photo by Gary Fultz on Unsplash
thick smoke on the hill
means the wildfires rage unseen
and so too in life
All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:6,8
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Paint by Flowers
tubes of tempera
God gives each of us colors
paint earth with flowers!
Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.
1 Peter 4:10
Oh, over-trimmed tree!
Are you going to hug me?
Nearly leafless love.
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Delicate Dance
yellow butterfly
fluttering between phloxes
a delicate dance
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Possibility
The lane to the lake
leads to possibility.
The sky’s the limit!
Photo by Betty Chambers at Chambers on the Road
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