A Shadow, and A Prayer

Tangled weeds thread hope
and despair
through the nub of desire

a sensuous screenplay
evoking memories of you

softened by time
by the wind
and by the telepathy
between two souls destined to begin
again

one moment
mirrors the next
as time becomes irrelevant โ€”
existing

are two
made of one
a shadow, and a prayer

calling down the hopes of another sun


Image aalmeidah, Pixabay

Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: sensuous, screenplay, nub. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.


Updates

It was great to drop in on a few of your sites recently and read your amazing poetry and other creative works.

This past year, Iโ€™ve been super busy, both personally and professionally.

Personally, Iโ€™ve taken to traveling and am actually currently typing this blog post in London while my life partner reads upstairs in the hotel we are staying in. Itโ€™s been a wild year, full of love, light, and discomfort too, as Iโ€™ve been asked to grow more and to grow in new ways, yet all of it has been amazing.

Professionally, I and the newly expanded team are doing well. We are currently creating the next academic yearโ€™s work, which requires a lot of strategic thinking and planning.

Though Iโ€™ve not been writing much at all, I am planning to begin to write more each week and to also visit the blogosphere as my schedule allows.

I hope you have all been well.

I am sending you all of my love and blessings.

Jeff


Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon best-selling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month



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Music

Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash

The music fills me with such
love and beauty, itโ€™s like free-falling
with all the best intentions, just now,
while the world shepherds a course
of direction, and I feel that deep connection.

I sit and let the music fill me, every nook and
cranny of my soul becomes engulfed in the
sound and feeling of all thatโ€™s there. Oh, such
devotion and care.

Care for ourselves is such an important
part of our journey. Sometimes we feel lost,
and unsure, even uncomfortable in our own skin,
even when we are with our kin. Itโ€™s not a demerit,
we all feel this way at times, so let your heart inherit.

The joy you feel within, as you take in the piano
paying a melody you swear was written for you, and
you grin.

The smile filling the room with joy and love,
itโ€™s enough to absolve the remainder of the lost
souls, in which you do connect, as you see yourself
in their midst, and have lived through the tests, just
as they are now presently, giving their best.

Best is what we each carry, give out, and try
not to tarry. No, give all that you have, my friend,
and, when itโ€™s time, let the music fill you and
begin the dance again.

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