Feeling a raindrop, the droopy leaf Expelled a sigh of deep relief And stretched forth its palms As a beggar begs his alms As raindrops pooled on its skin It bid the bugs to drink and swim And the raindrop lit up and glistened while it let the sunshine in only to scatter the lightContinue reading “AFTER THE RAINS”
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A RAINDROP
Fragile drops of rain Mother of rivers and clouds A world in focus DAILY POST: FOCUS
A ROSEBUD
Roses are beautiful on their own I never thought they could even be more so until raindrops gave them a crown Daily Post: Elegant
SUMMER’S GIFT
Raindrops hang from the boughs they sit on the grass twinkling like Christmas lights The dry spell is over Earth celebrates the bequest Fall received from Summer – Roses will yield parting flowers Leaves will burst in wild colors before the Wind hums its plaintive tune that will lull its world to blessed slumber. DailyContinue reading “SUMMER’S GIFT”
SHOWERS ON A HOT DAY (for WPC: Cherry on Top)
Raindrops filtered through My hands are left with nothing But what the heart holds WPC: Cherry on Top
JUST AN ORDINARY LIFE
My day begins and ends attending to my baby. In between, I am busy taking care of the needs of a rather large family of seven: feeding, schooling, refereeing four bickering boys, and meeting their demands. There are dishes to clean, clothes to wash and fold, a house to straighten up. On a goodContinue reading “JUST AN ORDINARY LIFE”
WPC: ZIGZAG
Open palms reveal the lines as on a leaf, mirroring hands fate and fortune connect veins of flowing blood mingling lives No one is an island. ~~~~ The words, too, are a zig-zag, put together on the fly, going this way and that and ultimately, somewhere. I hope. Thank you for coming by. 🙂 WPC: Continue reading “WPC: ZIGZAG”
TO THE MOTHER OVERWHELMED BY MOTHERHOOD
You are a flower you do not see how beautiful you are. Your earthly eyes only see your life is sacrifice. But do you know – the angels gather your fragrance to perfume the throne of the Most High? Your tears are sprinkled in the heavens to light the night skies. When love weighs youContinue reading “TO THE MOTHER OVERWHELMED BY MOTHERHOOD”
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FRESH
We are in a heat wave and my responses tended towards things that symbolize all that I want to be during these days – cool, and clean, and pretty too – not a bad wish, if I may say so), just like these flowers after a rain. As I write this post, theContinue reading “WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FRESH”
YELLOW AND LIGHT
The last few days have been rainy days for us. But each morning, when I looked out of the window, I see the sun slanting in the east lighting the dew drops that are on the ground. The grass blades and the fallen leaves glitter under the light. Though I am not an earlyContinue reading “YELLOW AND LIGHT”
MY WALL 