I’ve brought this song especially for my good brother, Ben Nelson, who didn’t think he’d heard it before when I mentioned it to him. It’s a “rockin’ Christian song!
I met Ben through blogging a decade ago, and can’t brag enough about him—if you’d like to meet him, here’s the link to his blog:
http://anotherredletterday.com/
Enjoy the song! 💖Leyde/Leslie
https://naturalistweekly.com/2022/08/26/micro-season-the-cotton-lint-opens/
Our friend, Mark S, offers another haiku prompt, “Cotton”. This guy knows just about Everything, I’m convinced. If you haven’t visited his blog, you’re missing out! Click the link to meet him—and learn something!
And now my haiku/senryu:
Cotton blossoms white
Raw pickers’ hands drip scarlet
Blood of servitude
~
Sharp bolls cut meanly
Back breaking labor, long days
Sing of “Promised Land”
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/three-things-challenge-m68/
Prompt words: amuse, funny, laugh
Next month I turn 70—this poem is partial testimony of what The Almighty God has done in my life by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. Color me glad and grateful!
Days without humor
Heart can’t count, too numerous
Now laughs exceed tears
Life, people often amuse
Most, unwittingly funny
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Upon branch of greed
Springs leafy fruit, yet worthless
Shoddy soul poisoned
By pride, self-aggrandizement
Pathetic casualty
Consequences due…
Dearth of selflessness
Will work to heart’s detriment
Initial gains lost
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/three-things-challenge-m66/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/branch/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/25/fowc-with-fandango-casualty/
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https://dversepoets.com/2022/08/25/mtb-vertical-lines-of-kisses/
This is one fabulous prompt hosted by Laura Bloomsbury! I won’t copy all the instructions—you can click the link above and get the whole enchilada.
In brief, you choose one option of the poetry lines given by the host, and write a poem wherein every word of that line becomes the first word of each successive line in your poem. Your lines must follow the order of the chosen prompt line. (Although the host indicated a preference for at least 2 stanzas…I felt my poem only needed one.)
This is the line I chose, by Michael Drayton…with poem to follow:
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”
~~♥~~
Since delusion could serve me no more
There’s reality’s burden to contend with (stones/ashes)
No reciprocation of love…innocent, undemanding; and
Help was unhelpful, bramble’d path heart endlessly walked…
Come away with me anyway, you’re now ghost unfettered
Let us meet on equal realm…and finally, let
Us embrace, be a-whirl ‘mid deferred passion…
Kiss the breath I breathe while restless sleeping
And whisper words withheld sore-long…my Love
Part from me not, nor ever again!
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Recently I had a request for this salad recipe. I found it online at the link above, and at the time I printed it out the author’s name was listed as Julie Wampler.
Rather than copy it out for you, may I suggest you click on the link so you get an accurate list of ingredients and instructions.
It’s a quick, easy, delish salad for any occasion or season, but especially during the intense heat many of us are still enduring this summer.
Try it, you’ll LOVE it!😊
Leyde Ryan
https://thetwiglets.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/twiglet-293/
Prompt: The sky leans
The sky leans
This way, that
Eavesdropping on
Conversations below—
Lovers breaking up
Making up…
Children whispering
Secrets…strange
Goings on at home…
Elderly couple
Shuffles slow, speaks
Of how it used to be
Kids now grown, gone…
Young man mumbles
To himself, wonders
How he lost his way…
A woman babbles
To her toddler, she
Has no one else…
The sky leans
Heart clouds filled
All its seen, heard
Sky leans a little
Closer to Heaven
Angels descend
One by one, then
2, 3, winging down
Messages, miracles
On their way…
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://trentsworld.blog/2022/08/22/the-weekly-smile-for-the-22nd-of-august-2022-weeklysmile/
I don’t think I’ve participated in Trent’s “Weekly Smile” before…but I’m speeding toward the Big 70th b’day, so I can hardly be expected to remember everything!😄
I have lots of blessings to smile about—some weeks they stand out like Day-Glo paint, sometimes I have to look for them…either way, I know blessings abound.
Today I’m smiling because I ordered a small freezer that will fit in my bijou apartment I call the “Upper Room”. I’m one of those women who shop for bargains, and in quantity…it’s not quite the same as “hoarding”, but close. It’s problematic when the freezer above the fridge (manufactured with limited space) is fully packed, not room for one ice cube. The battle begins anew each time I open the door, resulting in an avalanche. Frozen chicken leaves a serious bruise when it lands on your foot.🙄
The new freezer will arrive the first week of September. There’s only one concern: it will reside in the corner where my Christmas tree glowed last year…and there are no more free corners. But I’m thrilled, nonetheless!
Another smile today comes courtesy of my caregiver. We have way too much fun, particularly when doing my shopping! She’s a tremendous asset—I needed a helper, and I got a friend who’s like a sister in the bargain! God is Good!! 💙Leyde Ryan
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/photo-challenge-428/
I know how you feel
Those thoughts you’re contemplating
I’ve been there myself
Give courage another chance
Miracles await ahead
If I had quit life
I’d have missed everything good
More wonderful than vast hopes
Live another day
Wake up, breathe, look all around
There’s One who loves you
Who doesn’t make promises
He won’t fulfill…trust God’s love♥
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://lindaghill.com/2022/08/24/one-liner-wednesday-upon-the-throne/
The day is never too short, or too busy, for prayer—to thank the Lord who occupies throne in my heart and home♥
Leyde Ryan
Hourglass Poetry 