Tears drip down my face
Cleansing rain that eases pain
Puddles reflect life
Nature refreshed and renewed
I invoke renewal too
—
A Tanka, though maybe not strictly to form, for today’s
#threethingschallenge.
Category Archives: Metaphysics
The Best we Can #SoCS #Music
Original song on ukulele, because music is a container for everything!
1. The mind is like a fridge
That’s full of leftover containers.
We’ve got to clean them out sometime;
It’s really a no brainer.
We keep what’s good, throw out what’s bad,
Learn from the happy and the sad,
And turn the rest into the best we can.
2. If we keep keeping all the stuff
In our refrigerator,
It’ll get a little spicy, dicey,
Sooner before later.
Responsible for what we hold,
We must be mindful, daring, bold
And turn the rest into the best we can.
3. There is a Spirit deep inside
That’s waiting on our calling,
For strength that only It provides
To help us when we’re falling.
The mind is deep, the mind is vast!
So let the part that’s everlasting
Turn the rest into the best we can.
We’re not alone, and we’re not done!
Our journey’s only just begun!
So turn the rest into the best we can!
Let Spirit turn the rest into the best we can!
—
Written for Linda G. Hill’s
Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS Prompt: Container.
Thanks for this great prompt, Linda! It’s been a while since I’ve written a song, especially on ukulele!
Fall Letter to God #Poem #Music
“Wings of Autumn,” original song on zither. After the poem is the ukulele version with lyrics.
Fall Letter to God
Dear God,
Thank you for the changing seasons!
I’m really glad the pollen count goes down in Fall,
or does it?
We really don’t know anymore,
but you do!
I’m also glad for that!
I’m so grateful for the ability,
the opportunity,
the decision,
and the courage to talk to you!
There are some things I need to say.
I dare not discuss them with my fellow humans,
because everyone is so darn touchy nowadays!
They would think I was talking about them,
when really I’m talking about myself!
Nevertheless, Thy will be done!
Every now and then,
at least once in a blue moon,
would it be too much trouble
to have a day when I’m not sizzling inside like hot lava,
feeling angry at you-know-who (not you, the human I live with),
or worse, making him angry with me
by simply expressing an opinion
that doesn’t match his?
You know
it’s not just the current world crisis
making us this way.
It’s been like this
our entire marriage!
I say that
as if we’ve been married a long time.
But it’s only been 18 months!
And every month,
every week,
every day,
sometimes every hour,
it gets worse and worse!
Is it true what he seems to think,
that marriage means always
and
forever
saying
and
doing
what your partner wants,
just because he thinks it’s best?
And that
doing things this way
promotes harmony
in the relationship?
You’re heaps wiser
than either of us
will ever be!
So, I know
that you know!
Please, God!
Help me know the truth!
Am I insane?
Unreasonable?
Crazy?
Delusional?
Wrong?
Ungrateful?
Argumentative?
And all the other things
he claims?
Am I
really
that
bad?
If I am,
why doesn’t he leave?
After all, he’s the one
with all the money,
whereas I have none!
So, if I were in his place,
living with someone
I thought was so terrible,
I would leave!
Not sit around
complaining about it!
Please, God!
I need help!
And I know
you already know
what I have need of
before I ask!
I call upon your
love,
healing,
wisdom,
creativity,
and humor
(Or is it humour?),
and whatever else you grant me,
not to change anyone else!
But to change me
as you see fit!
Make me like a babbling brook,
always moving merrily along,
never getting stuck or stagnant,
so that I may live a life,
regardless of the people in it,
that is pleasing
to
you
and
you
alone!
Thank you, God,
for your time
and Almighty attention
to this matter!
Yours Truly,
Crystal
—
My response to Linda Kruschke’s
Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #39, Yours Truly.
Wings of Autumn on Ukulele
Enjoy the song with lyrics
here.
Looking for Love #Poem
The thing we think is love, is not!
It’s need that fools a foolish mind.
In time we feel constrained, confined,
As growth provides a different plot.
So fixed on love, the mind forgot
To listen with the Spirit’s ears.
If truly sought, true love appears!
We cease to cling, but open wide!
Our needs are met, but from inside.
To love another, conquer fears!
—
A Decima inspired by Ronovan’s post and written for this week’s challenge,
Look. This week, it’s the C rhyme line.
As you can see, I used “appears.”
The Story of the Mind #SixSentenceStories
How elastic the human mind is!
It’s changing and changeable, contracting and contractible, expanding and expandable, a true wonder of nature!
Unfortunately, it’s also elastic in its habits, obsessively returning to them, building their negativity, over and over and over again.
Just when we think we’ve dealt with an issue, moved past a hurdle, forgiven someone, conquered guilt and fear, or grown at last, we find our minds taking that same old trip down that well-traveled, all too familiar negative spiral instead, again and again and again!
What can we do about this insanity, for insanity it is, if insanity really means doing the same thing over and over and over again, but expecting different results?
We must constantly, elastically, over and over and over again, give up our minds to the Great Higher Mind, the One that changes nature, and the One that makes nature willing to change!
—
A little story about a huge thing, written for
Denise’s #SixSentenceStories Prompt, Elastic.
Please also read
Elastic Truth by Frank Hubeny,
which inspired this story and was written for the same prompt.
Awakening #Haiku #Poem
Pale light leaps at dawn
Slowing fury in the mind
Ringing peals of peace
—
A Haiku for today’s
#threethingschallenge at Pensitivity101
and
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Chalenge: Fury and Slow.
The Good Book #Poem
Book, chapter and verse,
Some quote it impressively.
Do they live the Word?
Do they live the Word?
Shakespeare, Thoreau, Emerson…
Truth from any source.
Truth from any source!
Religions choose just a few;
Some leave out the heart.
Some leave out the heart,
But it’s all we really have
To discern the truth!
—
This is a Shi Rensa Haiku. You can learn how to write one
here.
Conquer Stone #Poem
Water seems a harmless thing,
Yet conquers even stone
By taking down a megalith,
As in the fall of Rome.
Music is the water heard,
Compassion in its tone.
It heals the broken-hearted souls,
Believing they’re alone.
So be the water, be the song
That conquers stone with love!
—
49 words for Sammi’s
Weekend Writing Prompt #175 – Megalith.
Journey of His Plan #Poem
Give me liberty or give me lemons!
Regardless of which one,
Be they fresh-squeezed or otherwise,
I pray “Thy Will be done!”
A blank canvas I seem to be,
But really I am not,
For God made me with plans in mind,
And so my life He brought.
The rainstorms cover me indeed;
He always brings me through.
Under the sea or on the land,
Our God cannot be moved!
Sometimes I’m like a tumbleweed
That’s tossed and blown about.
Tongue-tied, I call Him in my mind;
God takes away my doubt.
Though one green flash I’ve never seen,
I feel his loving hand.
And in it I remain throughout
The journey of His plan!
—
Another response to this week’s
Paint Chip Poetry Prompt!
The Grand Plan #Poem
My Spirit has a great grand plan
Through music bringing Light and Peace!
It’s not a green flash in the pan;
My Spirit has a great grand plan!
When tongue-tied I just seek God’s hand;
Life’s rainstorms nurture fruits fresh-squeezed.
My Spirit has a great grand plan
Through music bringing Light and Peace!
—
A Triolet in response to Linda Kruschke’s
Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #38.
Though I haven’t done all of them, I really enjoy these prompts! So, yes, Linda, they’ve lived up to the hype! ❤
Mystical Strings 
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