Without any care,
No matter world circumstances,
The rose still blooms
Oh that I should be as trusting
To do the same as it does
Tanka
Tag: growing
Comfort and Joy
A bit of comfort
Springing up in time of need
Tiny flower of hope
Haiku
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
—Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man”
Today as I went out to visit my “Inspiration Rock Corner” to place a few new rocks I had painted, I happened to notice a tiny yellow flower blooming right next to the HOPE brick I had painted.
It seemed to match the little yellow flowers I had painted on the brick and I thought it not to be a co-incidence that the tiny flower had chosen that exact spot of all others in the yard to appear in bloom.
“Plant seeds of hope in your heart. Give them plenty of love and attention. Then watch as your beautiful dreams bloom” – Amy Atherton …
Oregon’s Evergreens – Arbor Day 2020
Stately they stand
Strong branches holding new life
Sheltered from storms
As wind and rain beat
Steadily upon their mossy boughs
Stately they stand
Green giants waving
Strong branches holding new life
All across our land
Some are chosen
As lumber to keep people
Sheltered from storms
Triple Haiku Cascade
“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.” — President Theodore Roosevelt.
“Other holidays repose upon the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.”
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Be A Dandelion
Tenacious
Like a dandelion
Persistent
Determined
Holding strongly on to life in
Any circumstance
Shadorma
Are You?
Falling through life’s cracks?
Or are you a ground breaker?
Growing in the hard places,
Blooming where you’re planted,
In spite of dry times,
Letting nothing hold you back,
From reaching your goal?
Modeling tenacity,
Like teeming dandelions?
Choka
Planted for a Purpose
Just the birds and me
Admiring this tall tall tree
Reaching for the sky
Rooted and grounded it grows
God wants me to do the same
Tanka
Friendly Field
Under a friendly sky
A promise from above
New lives growing
Haiku
In Him
Firmly Grounded
Deep roots in the faith
Established
Increasing
Continually growing
Daily in gratitude
Shadorma
( Based on Colossians 2:7 )
Us
A Family,
From the same root,
Different,
Yet alike,
Grounded together, yet each
Growing uniquely.
Shadorma
Resolute Rose
I saw this beautiful Peach Rose today growing in a somewhat abandoned area of old factories and thought it so odd that such a thing of beauty should be growing so voraciously even though obviously unattended to, but apparently someone, at sometime, had planted it there.
Well, I just had to pull over, climb through the weeds and photograph it and while doing so I was reminded of the quote
“Bloom Where You are Planted”. 🙂
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 