Tag: people

Posted in November 2013, November PAD Chapbook Challenge 2013, Religious, Rhyme

Creation reveals the Creator

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Vic_Viv_LincolnCity_073113I gaze upon the ocean with her mighty roar,
while above me the eagle does soar. 
A crab, which is a work of Your Own Hands,
is displayed for me upon the sands, 
as I walk and think and pray,
I give You thanks for every day. 
Thanks for the sun that shines and the moon’s fair light, 
the trees that shade and the stars at night. 
You made it all and called it good,
in six short days, as only You could. 
As I look around me and bless Your name,
I must remember Your greatest acclaim, 
the image of Yourself, created in others and me, 
people, reflecting Your beauty for all to see.  

 Rhyme   Leona J. Atkinson  11-05-13

Posted in Holiday, June 2013

:) Smile!

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Smiling Sun

 

There’s power in a smile
To chase a frown away.
It will uplift a gloomy spirit,
And cheer up someone’s day!

We all have one we can use,
So let’s put it on for those we meet.
It costs nothing to wear,
And it’s beauty can’t be beat!

Leona J. Atkinson   06-15-13
June 15th is a day specially set aside to celebrate the smile and encourage everyone to share one!
Read more at:  National Smile Power Day

Posted in May Flowers 2013

A Tribute to Blaze

Posted on by Leonas Lines
Blaze Rose Bush
Blaze

 

Blaze, you seemed to be the perfect rose for late springtime.
They told me you would bloom repeatedly from early summer to fall.
How excited I was to bring you home and introduce you to my garden!
Your  profile showed no negatives.
You were:
Shade tolerant,
Resistant to rust,
Had moderate  thorns,
And could be trained to climb.
What a keeper!
You certainly seemed to be the prize rose bush!
I planted you and waited eagerly for those profuse semi-double red blooms–but they  never came…
Day after day you sat there drinking my water and eating my food
 without  so much as a bud appearing.
I reread your profile to see if  I had missed something,
but  all I saw were more amazing attributes :
Grows quickly,
Blooms profusely,
Brings forth thousands of flowers,
Brilliant scarlet red clusters,
So easy to grow it is recommended as a gardeners first rose .
Such amazing attributes do not fit you, the Blaze in my backyard .
You certainly are not a vigorous grower. What is wrong?
Each day you seem to get weaker.
I don’t want to give up on you,
but  you seem to have given up on yourself.
The more I try to make you grow, the  less you do.
“Talk to him more” mom said.
” Tell him you really care about him.
Encourage him to grow because you know he can.
Start listing all the attributes he has.
Tell him you believe he will become a beautiful blooming bush someday.
Try it and see what happens” she said.
I did. I tried. I talked. I cared.
You grew. You flourished. You became what you were created to be,
a Blaze of scarlet in my backyard and the first rose to bloom this spring !

(Written about Laura Jae’s  little late bloomer, Blaze, rose bush.
He is a living testimony that we should never give up on anyone.
For as long as there is life there is hope and with love, care and encouragement,
people, as well as rose bushes, will usually grow and bloom profusely to reach their God ordained destiny. )

Leona J. Atkinson
05-13-13