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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 do—
What we
Make time
For.
Are you
Making time
For the most important
Things
In your
Life?
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 all have
Different ways
Of expressing
Our creativity—
And my arena
Of precision
Is different
From yours.
Where I am
Random may be
In loving the
Torn edge
Or the dust
On furniture—
Yours might be
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.
Daily life
Is a dance,
A rhythm.
Perhaps
By the time
You die
(If you’re lucky)
You’ve learned
The footwork…
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 crickets
Are riotous—
I can
Smell the
Star Thistle
Drying
On the parched
Hills—
End of Summer
And everything
Need a
Drink.
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
You can’t be
Charming
And wonderful—
Be civil.
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.
Art is
More
About the
Process
Of self discovery
Than it is
About
Making something
Beautiful.
We create
Because we have to—
It feeds
Our Soul.
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.
Art
Is the reflection
Of a person’s
Interaction
With the world
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.
An artist’s life
Is not so different
From any other life…
It’s just
That he (she) acts
As a mirror
For the soul.
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 your feet
Start looking like
Your father’s
Even though
You’re his daughter
You know
You’re getting
Older…
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.
Lack of focus
Equals
Lack of
Confidence…
