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Shelter (dVerse haibun)
https://dversepoets.com/2022/08/29/haibun-monday-give-me-shelter/
Instructions from host, Michelle Beauchamp:
“Today, I’d like you to incorporate the theme of “shelter” into your haibun. If you are new to the form, a haibun is made up of no more than three tight paragraphs that are non-fiction/autobiographical and usually written in present tense. The prose is followed by a haiku that makes reference to a season with an image of nature. Often the haiku adds another depth or layer to the prose.”
🏡🏠🏚
Growing up, I lived in a house envied for its custom-designed beauty (mere veneer of “home”). Dysfunction resided within, peopled by anger, secrets, deceits, a domineering and comfortless spirit of shaming humiliation. This nurtured paralyzing fear and insecurity, a sense of abandonment, life-long difficulties. I never felt sheltered—it was perilous to speak, my cares were dismissed. I had no hope, heart homeless.
Memory-scars remain tender (‘forgiveness is a process’). Thus, I’m daily grateful for my Heavenly Father’s embrace, the Good Shepherd’s gentle voice, Holy Spirit. His love endures forever, new mercies every morning.
I’m sustained in ‘the shelter of His wings’.✝
~♥~
First hearts ne’er sheltered
Their ice encased soul till it
Found true Haven’s warmth
©Leyde/Leslie Rene, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent…” Psalm 27:5, English Standard Version
“I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.” Psalm 61:4, New King James Version
“He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.” Psalm 91:4, New Living Translation
“For You have been a stronghold for the helpless… A shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of tyrants Is like a rainstorm against a wall.” Isaiah 25:4, Amplified Bible
Humor, Best Medicine (3TC)
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/three-things-challenge-m70/
Prompt words: giggle, silly, infectious
Some days she giggles
When tired, she’s often silly
Laughter’s infectious…
She’s surrounded by folks who
Know best medicine’s Humor
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing ~ ” Proverbs 17:22, Amplified Bible
Not ‘Cabbages and Kings’ Again
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Let us not speak
Of cabbages and kings
One merely green
The other rarely seen
I can’t enjoy this repast, nor
Your consuming celeb trivia
Do look beyond latest trend
All the glitz of social media…
For, there are challenges
Which must be resolved
World problems to solve
Post-haste, without fail
However feasible
Surely not unreasonable…
Something of genius
A genuine plan
Nothing subversive
No, sparkling, creative!
Shall we ponder, dear
Discuss those things?
And pray—if we expect
To continue living.
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/cabbages/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/genius/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/28/fowc-with-fandango-fail/
Sometimes Hope…
Quote
“Sometimes hope is that small scraggly green shoot courageously coming up through a crack in the concrete. Planted by The Father, it lifts us by surprise.”
©Leslie Rene (Leyde), 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
A Voice That Sings… (dverse-prosery-monday)
https://dversepoets.com/2022/08/15/dverse-prosery-monday-a-voice-that-sings/
To Lisa, at dVerse: This is my first ever attempt at writing prosery, so I hope to heck I’ve got it half-right.😉
Lisa is hosting Monday Prosery adventure. Today’s prompt line is from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr—and instructions for writing prosery follow quote:
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
–by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., from The Chambered Nautilus
Instructions: Prosery can be flash-fiction or creative non-fiction; cannot exceed 144 words in total (sans title); must not be poetry (no versification, line breaks, meter, etc); and must include the given poetry line, word for word, within the prose.
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Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: it is the siren song of my love, ever calling me from this misted life to be joined within myth’s exquisite swirl…no thought for tomorrow, tasks at hand, only companionable exchanges and reflections there. How long have we waited…I’ve forgotten; but I see blue eyes from depth afar…and I doubt I can abide here anymore.
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
To Be and Do Peace
(dove from Leyde’s collection
This quotation by Susan David set me to pondering, resulting in the poem which follows ~
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Emotional Agility, Susan David, PhD
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How I long to slow
The process, hold still in space
Between what triggers
My speed-of-light reactions
Quick words and deeds bursting forth
There’s no calling back
Birds impulsively darting—
White feather may fall
Love, reconciliation…
Sometimes, fresh droplets of blood
~*~
I wish to catch pause
Stay there while heart thinks, ponders
Before responding
‘Twould decrease slammed doors; prevent
Embarrassing conjectures
I pray for wisdom
To feel freedom, show kindness
Thus, be and do peace
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];” James 1:19, Amplified Bible
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/07/31/think/
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Time, Time, Time…
“Time, time, time…see what’s become of me…” Paul Simon