Poems and Ponderings

Forgiveness a great gift... We always hear to forgive, others and ourselves, so let me share a personal story about forgiveness: About 30 years back I had to oblige to a request of my mother to do something that was so completely against my own believe, but analytically I could understand her reasoning and as a 'good' daughter  I followed her instruction. For years this haunted me, I could forgive myself, but had the other person forgiven me??? So it came as a completely surprise when one day I received an email from that person telling me how grateful she was for doing what I did back then.  (I am afraid I can't go into details, as it involves a family member and very private details). Believe me I was first in shock, because we have never spoken about it, no one ever mentioned it again in all these years and then the tears just welled up washed away the pain that I carried for all these years. Forgiveness is a powerful gift indeed. So today phone or email som

Like a tattoo you are forever engraved into my soul.  Your unconditional love Your faith Your companionship You have taught  and accompanied me faithfully through your short life Your life was a miracle A little fighter, Rejected by your mother, Fighting parvo A miracle baby you were called A shoebox baby, tiny, tiny fitting just, But a heart as big as the universe My little Socky, Socks, rest in peace until one day we will all meet again.

Life Cycles, yesterday I had to put down my beloved Ridgeback, he was only 9 years. He had been ill for almost a year, a tumor diagnosed last year had spread to his stomach; the last few days he was very frail and my heart was sore seeing but not believing what was about to happen. It was the second time I had to put a beloved friend to rest and it doesn't get any easier! But I do know he is with his sister now who crossed the Rainbow Bridge last year. As I was cleaning the house, washing  his blankets etc today I couldn't help but thinking of life cycles; if you do Numerology you do know that we go through different cycles in life.  Well, since yesterday when I arrived back home I had this sudden feeling that a life cycle was completed, not only because of the passing of my dog.  The last few years for me were all about death, death of my pets, my husband, but also death in a spiritual way, letting go of many thoughts and thought pattern, letting go of many previous att

I was lucky finding a book with poetry at the thrift shop, one of the poems which stood out today is this one: Then God smiled, And the light broke, And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining on the other, And God said, "That's good!"   Read the whole poem here: http://www.poetry-archive.com/j/the_creation.html

The other day I came across this little poem which I will print out as a reminder Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.   Life is life, fight for it.   Mother Teresa

Roberta Allen writes in her book ' Fast Fiction' ...Writing is energy, psychic energy. When the desire is really strong, there's a lot of energy in that desire. The more energy the better.... Without energy, writing is dead, it is just words... It's exciting to start something new. It's also scary. It's okay to be scared. In fact, the more scared you are the better. There's a lot of energy in being scared.... So think of your fear as a place to begin. From my own experience I can 100 % support this statement. But take it a bit further, any kind of strong emotion, such as love, loss, grief, anger, any kind of strong emotion will help you to write! Of course we should Freewrite (timed writing), every day, no matter how our emotions are! When I read through my journals and my poems, the strongest writings were when I was in some kind of strong emotional state. Start writing, don't think, sit down and allow your pen/cil to move freely. Write about your love,

It has been some hectic few weeks, with the birth of my first grandson and then getting ill etc, etc... As exciting as it all was nothing prepared me for all these old memories of mine  to resurface, I thought I had put them nicely in a drawer and threw away the keys in typical Aquarius/Scarlett O'Hara style! ;) But boy oh boy did I remember, the good, the bad and the ugly... What did help me was writing it all down, trying to make sense of my emotions, acknowledging the memories and letting them go. It does help, writing it down that is, it brings order to a confused, upset mind and the emotions and the tears ..., well they do say cleaning is done with water... So a lot of cleaning/cleansing was done and my guess is that it never really ends, so I have my journals and my pen/cils ready for my daily pages, for any thoughts that cross my mind during the day and yes I do go for the jugular, no sense in going only halfway, isn't it?

To tense to sleep Charged with new vitality Parade of visions before her eyes Filled with a new sense of purpose Yesterday she was a nobody going nowhere Now she knew who she was and where she is going Hers was a special destiny... Found this in my journal but did not make a note of the author, if anyone knows please let me know I would appreciate it!