A Vision To Behold

Magpie #59

"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."  ~Ralph Ellison

I held her once my fickle friend before she had to flee

It seemed a mere moment that I could never seize

The only grasp I could hope to hold would never suffice

For beauty is a wayward kind that leaves before goodbyes

The only way to capture her and keep her in one place

Is a snapshot or paint and canvas held within a picture frame.

 

The Mighty Things II

Magpie #58

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."  ~C.S. Lewis

BRAVERY

It is not the man that can easily do what we are all frightened of,

but the one who is certainly afraid yet dares to do it anyway.

FRAILTY

It is not the heart that is easily broken with compassion,

but the one too hard to feel it that has taken the greatest loss.

POWER

It is not the hand that swings the weapon that holds the most power,

for it can only quickly move us about, but the one that carries the tools of the builders and weaver of the soul that hold the power to change our lives.

Also sharing with One Shot Wednesday

Hope Remains

Thursday Think Tank #40

"When you say a situation or person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."  ~Charles L Allen

There has always been

blind eyes and silent voices

drunken fights and chilling choices

children abused and big mistakes

the innocent accused and namelless graves

deadly diseases and forbidden lovers

shaky knees and grieving mothers

crippling births and miseries of war

unquenched thirsts and broken hearts

idle hands and shattered lives

demonic plans and battered wives

heart aches and lost souls

....yet what remains

is there shall always be hope.

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." ~Christopher Reeve

This post is dedicated to all the precious lives lost in Japan's recent earthquake, and the ones left behind, whose lives will never be the same.  Let us not turn a blind eye, and do nothing.

The Artistry of God

Magpie # 57

God loved the flowers and invented soil.  Man loved the flowers and invented vases.  ~Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval

You did not get here all by yourself my beautiful friend

every garden once had a beloved gardener

and each falling leaf once had a limb

the earth at times may seem parched

as the winds blow hard

but your petals hold a purpose

right here where you are.



Also sharing with lovely Emily at Imperfect Prose

The Callused Knees of Mercy,

The open arms of humility can build a mighty bridge

and reaching hands hold hope

that they shall surely give

but you cannot reach a hardened heart

with the calused hands  from condemnation's workings

for it can only be touched by the callused knees of mercy.

Sharing with lovley Emily at Imperfect Prose