When clouds of adversity hover
As they someday surely will
Dont give up and run for cover
When clouds of adversity hover
Stand firm and you’ll discover
There’s strength in standing still
When clouds of adversity hover
As they someday surely will
Triolet
“Coming soon” the signs say
Bits of color speak loud and clear
As I walk the dreary way
Coming soon” the signs say
Birds sing of a brighter day
Spring color will soon be here
“Coming soon” the signs say
Bits of color speak loud and clear
Triolet
Heartprints
Everywhere
Left by those who care
Mean more than fingerprints or
Footprints
Cinquain
( I was surprised to see another heart shape in my path today as I walked thru the parking lot at my local grocery store. This one was just a dry patch in the wet blacktop, not sure how it came to be there but it caught my eye. The last heart shape I saw a couple weeks ago in the parking lot was created from gum or candy I think. Just amazing that I keep seeing these heart shapes in my path. Looks like someone is leaving heartprints! 😊 )
Reminds me of the beautiful poem I posted below by an Unknown Author . It’s titled “Heartprints”
Heartprints
Whatever our hands touch – we leave fingerprints!
On walls, on furniture, doorknobs, dishes, books – there’s no escape!
As we touch we leave our identity.
Oh God, wherever I go today, help me leave heartprints!
Heartprints of compassion, of understanding and love,
Heartprints of kindness and genuine concern.
May my heart touch a lovely neighbor, or a runaway daughter
or an anxious mother, or perhaps even a friend.
Lord, send me out today to leave heartprints.
And if someone should say “I felt your touch”,
May that one sense YOUR LOVE
Touching them through ME!
Author: Unknown
When the morn’s nigh
On His strength rely
Seek Him on High
When day’s done
Oh weary one
Seek the Son
Syllabic Verse
Martin Luther King
To a nation racially torn
Peace he sought to bring
Senryu
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
“We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now because I’ve been to the mountaintop… I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” —Martin Luther King speech, April 3, 1968
(In tribute to a great man who left us too soon.)
As a Good Shepherd
The Lord God
Seeks, saves His sheep
Syllable Lune
“For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.”
Ezekiel 34:11-12 KJV
Image provided by Dressember.orgVictims
Know no freedom
Mired in slavery
They pray and hope for a victor
To come
Cinquain
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You can help set them free by spreading awareness, making a donation to help one of the many organizations in their fight to stop this, or simply just pray that those who can help or intervene will do so.
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Thank you.
–Leona
As blessings come
So do many sorrows
All have some
Present, or tomorrows
Like a beating drum
Life constantly harrows
As blessings come
So do many sorrows
Keep the faith to overcome
And stand strong in all the morrows
Rhyme
Inspired by:–Don Moen–“Be It Onto Me” song lyrics:
“You promised to carry our sorrows
Lord, we believe it’s true
You promised unending tomorrows
Lord we receive them from you“
Each day
My ship sets sail
Traveling in calm waters
Or stormy, it always has a firm
Anchor
Cinquain
Faith is being sure that what we
Hope for will come to pass because of the
Love that God has for us, and we rest in
Peace believing that to be true.
Free Verse
Based on Hebrews 11:1
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 