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Everyday Inspiration—Spoken #2
Everyday Inspiration: Hopeful
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of spoken word attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
Everyday Inspiration—Spoken #1
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of spoken word—attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
Everyday Inspiration: Shoe
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
Pink petals
Amongst the brown
Leaves.
Spring is certainly
Trying!
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
The only way
To get clued in
Is to go through
Being clueless…
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
When all is said and done
Memories
Are what you have…
Perhaps
Because they make
An impression
On your soul.
That’s why
They last
So long.
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
You have to be
In tune
(and watch for the signs)
Otherwise
Life is too
Confusing…
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
Residue
Of fun…
A sprinkling
Of beach sand
In the trunk.
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
Soulful work
Is important
Because
It’s all about
The journey.
Without
Putting your heart
And soul
Into it
When you arrive
At your destination
What have you got?
(Maybe a goal—
But the work
Hasn’t changed you
Like it (Continue Reading...)
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
We coax
We pull
We pin
We tug
We stitch
We undo—
We smooth
We press
And we force
Two curves
To match up
In some
Ungodly fashion
And then lie flat—
All in a
Day’s work
For a fabric (Continue Reading...)
Everyday Inspiration
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
Things
Present themselves
When they need to get
Done—
You can’t
Run from them
You can’t
Hide from them.
But until they show up
You might as well
Not worry
About them.
