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Tag Archives: Perfection
BETTER THAN PERFECTION
When it’s cold inside, but your people are inside, what are you going to do? When it’s colder still, outside, where highway traffic swiftly flies, and on light-clad body hair and goosebumps rise, while furled brows knit, and with spring … Continue reading
Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry
Tagged Choices, Cold, Company, Inside, Outside, Perfection, Risk-taking, Solitude
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LOVE YOUR HUMAN AND GOD-GIVEN BODY
Love every inch of your human and God-given body, In each way, and in each day it does change and grow. From each silken, silvering hair, even down to that one oddly puffed and side-bent toe, Though you may feel … Continue reading
Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Self-care
Tagged Age, Body, God-given, Human, Love, Perfection, Self, Service, Time
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THE LIGHT OF YOUR EXCELLENCE
The year’s life moves fast along, in apparent descendence. . . Your light proves, when you show it, to emit perfect excellence. . . Your might you don’t lose– though you don’t always know it– when you don’t permit all … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Winter
Tagged Body, Bounty, Brilliance, Excellent, Golden, Light, Mind, Perfection, Self, Soul, True, Year
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I AM a work in progress
I am a work in progress— Well, that’s extremely kind. . . as I contract, expand. . . And, in doing so, I follow no well carved out or pretty plan. . . And, in the end, more fit am … Continue reading
Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer
Tagged Art, Emptiness, God, Heart, I am, Life, Perfection, Plans, Prayer, Satisfaction, Seeing, Work in Progress
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THE PERFECTION INTERSECTION
the sole worth of the notion of perfection lies in the place where it with road of life makes intersection. . . perhaps more often so not so much through action but in looking how things have gone and how … Continue reading
Posted in Quick reads
Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Feeling, Intersection, Life, Light, Mind Body, Opening, Path, Perfection, Place, Poetry, Quick Reads, Reflection, Road
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COOPERATION, COMPROMISE, PERFECTION
Cooperation goes hand in hand with compromise. . . fiercely fixing eyes on the unyielding, static prize of an image of perfection invites obstruction. . . For, for a plan to be perfected its introduction into air, water and sod, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quick reads
Tagged Acceptance, Action, Air, Appreciation, Compromise, Cooperation, Growth, Image, Land, Life, Mind Body, Perfection, Sod, Thought, Water
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The Danforth Anchor 