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December 27, 2015

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 27 December 2015

Sometimes I have to ruminate a bit on Sunday’s aggregated verse. But this past week had a mostly singular focus in anticipation of family gatherings and all our highest aspirations for love, joy and peace. Even some of the writing prompts followed seasonal themes.

I give you then, this week in verse with the hope that you found all of those things in your corners of the world too. Happy happy!

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 27 December 2015

Like frost-kissed stardust!
It would most certainly come true.
Time and grace have helped… Under friendly fire. Except for the rain.
They played for hours Competing light shows.
Dust covers each inch
our days are numbered
All sentiments of hope for peace, with wishes warm and bright.
“Surprise me!”
Hey what am I?
Merry Happy HanuHoliChristIvus to You!
…not found in giving things
…practice kindness.

kat ~ 27 December 2015

If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week. It helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean the slate.

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December 26, 2015

Munificence & Bonhomie – Friday’s (and Saturday’s) Word (s) of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

This week’s words of the day go hand in hand! And they each represent the best of this season..light, love, joy, peace, happiness. May you know munificence and true bonhomie this holiday and throughout the coming year!

True munificence
Is not found in giving things
But Love, peace and time.

They practice kindness
Those diplaying bonhomie
Know true happiness.

kat ~ 26 December 2015

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December 20, 2015

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 20 December 2015

By Kat Myrman

Happy Sunday! And happy weekend before Christmas! As I started lifting lines from this past week’s postings things could have taken a much darker turn mid-poem (thanks to Ronovan Writes Haiku challenge of opposites). I took the more positive lines, but the tone still had a bittersweet quality. I can’t help but think of all the family gatherings that will be taking place this week. It can be wonderful and it can also test our patience.

There is something about going home that has a way of transforming us into children, with all the wonderful as well as the baggage we carry with us throughout our lives.

What I wish for you…for all of us, this holiday season is gentle reconciliations, happy memories, love and peace. Each year it is our greatest hope. And each year we have the opportunity to witness a miracle. Yes, most of all, I wish you miracles.

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 20 December 2015

I didn’t get the memo…
They may be coming, but I don’t have to like it!
Like a beast to
the trough I sift
through the backwash
of drivel and banter.
Looks deceive.
A blooming beauty,
Charmed, I’m sure.
Enchanting view from afar
After all, they had each other.
In dreamy slumber we wait
splintering in ecstasy…
That’s how she would remember…
If not for promises of spring
I think I might need an intervention.
An adjective…not a question,
It had been a long day of waiting.

~ kat

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December 13, 2015

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 13 December 2015

By Kat Myrman

Happy Sunday! This week’s collection of verse is a bit odd but there are a few take-aways. I started off the week inspired by nature and then suddenly it t seems slid down a slippery slope surrounded by wolves being wolves and cake! Let them eat cake, I say…or chocolate! Because at the end of the day it’s all about balance, paying attention and remembering that we are all in this together…this mad crazy world of ours. And the most important thing? Truth. It is like a candle in the wind. We should protect it even if it’s hard…or risk the light going out.

Phew! That was a brain-full. Thank goodness for this day of rest. Next week is bound to be full of lessons too, I am sure if it. But for today, I think I’ll just simmer on this a bit. My wish for you? Gentleness on your journey, wherever life leads you.

Peace out..for now! ❤️

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 13 December 2015

Nature’s perfection inspires us all!
a lover of many…and none brain-freeze karma sucks.
must have a pallet for sweets chocolate optional.
To achieve balance Practice saying, “No.”
I promise I won’t laugh!”
Wouldn’t you like to be a fly near that café table.
we are part of the human race that includes all the peoples of the world…not just our little corner of it.
“Home looked smaller than she remembered.”
She loved cockadoodle-dooing!
‘Tis a fortnight I am told…
from madness to muse.
Truth is like a candle in the wind for those who refuse to see it.

~kat

If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week that helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean the slate.

9 Comments | posted in Digital Art & Photos, Essays, Poetry, Random Thoughts and Musings