Emotions will never reach tomorrow
~ too fluid unless we hang on
The dips and the dives of
those slippery ‘feels’ change
with the tides of each day
The tides of tomorrow will be different
maybe calm or steady or wild
so belief in yourself and
the life that you live is
the rudder that steers you through life.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
~ Arthur Ashe
Rhythm
Began with slow waking
Picked up through the morning
discussion danced back and forth
over lunch and lemon spiked waters
Afternoon slow and easy
picking up stray tasks
chatting with neighbours
’til quiet underlined by
music and hum of the dishwasher
softened today's rhythm
“There is music wherever there is rhythm,
as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.”
~ Igor Stravinsky
A wide open door
birds fill the trees
with chirps and song
a dog barks in the neighbourhood
a car shushes past
Fernando plays on the radio
backed by gentle strum of a lute
the aroma of barbecue drifts
trees wave in the wind
clouds ride high and thin ~
today was once a tomorrow.
“Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Learn from it… tomorrow is a new day.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist
(1803 ~1882)
