My fear’s obsessions
They’re distracting my focus
Slowing down my dreams
It’s those fears that wake you in the dead of night that frustrate me so.
Category: Poetry
A Haiku For A Summer’s Evening
The day’s heat lingers
Sunlight blocked by the mountains
Summer’s kind mercies
It was a warm one today. Especially by Seattle standards. Got some walking in, a little shopping, farmers market time, chatting friends…all things that build connection and community.
Civility De-Valued: A Haiku
Social media
Civility de-valued
The evening’s calmness
So much potential
Fear steps in and hamstrings us
Robs us of our dreams
The Streetlight
Looking through the dark
Bugs orbiting a street light
Buzzing electrons
The Thailand Cave Rescue: A Haiku Meditation
Bold, daring and kind
When we focus on the goal
We achieve great things
The Election Is Nearing
Election nearing
Phone ringing incessantly
This quest for power
I Sit In Stillness
I sit in stillness
The quietness calms my soul
I find hope therein
Always Seek Out Hope
Always seek out hope
Then our end will be better
Beyond what we guess
Moving through my life’s various trials in constantly struck by how often the results don’t match my predictions. At times, my conceptualization wasn’t even close. The best results achieve when I abandoned expectations and acted. Simply moved forward. Even if the end isn’t clear, the next step often is.
Can we remove fear’s power over us?
Fears easily win
When I lose faith that there is
A pathway forward
It seems that the quickest path to despair is giving up on finding a way forwards. That there are solutions to problems. Perhaps even that there’s any sort of solution. Sometimes, it’s easy to get so enmeshed into the details any problem that even obvious solutions become elusive.
It’s critical that we challenge that mindset. That we refuse to believe in that self-talk. We’d just believe in growth, in learning, in the path forward through the darkness.
I find reminding myself that other folks have gotten through similar challenges helps greatly. Knowing I’m not alone gives me peace, which feeds my strength.
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