follow the light
within the feathered beats of moon song,
a mockingbird sings of love and hope,
between the full moon and the new,
an eternity passes
I’m not really up for prompts just yet, but this fits Frank’s New Moon Challenge. I was thinking how so much has happened in two weeks since the moon was last full.
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❤ Feathered beats of moon song. What a beautiful image Merril. Much love – I'm still not able to write or read as much as I'd like of everyone's poetry, but I send hugs and all the best wishes from here, and kittipurrs.
Aww–thank you so much, Shuku. ❤️ That phrase just wouldn’t leave my head.
I’m not able to focus much on anything right now, but this poem just wanted to be written.
It definitely did need to be written I think. ❤ I'm so glad you let it out. It's ok not to focus – a very wise woman called Romana (yes, our Romana!) told me that life did indeed happen, and that poetry and writing would come when it came. And it does. ❤
Take care of yourself all right? Will be thinking of you.
Thank you so much. You take care of yourself, too! ❤️
I will. I’m trying to, which is why I haven’t been writing – it was getting unhealthily stressful, and I’ve desperately needed some space in the day to cope. I’ll probably take a day and catch up with several prompts or write a few things, but at least for the next two or three days, I’m still going to be poem-less. ❤ But it's been good for me to learn to NOT do, sans guilt. Another wise woman, our Angela, tells me that it's the reflex of a protective mechanism that once served me well but doesn't any more and she's right.
Oh yes–there’s no point in stressing over writing. That defeats the purpose. I definitely can’t deal with NaPoWriMo right now. But I can always go back and look at the prompts if I want to, and so can you. Take care!❤️
Merril, I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful and poignant poem!
Thank you very much, Frank!
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#Haiku Happenings #2: Merril Smith’s latest #gogyohka for my current #Haikai challenge.
Thank you for the reblog, Frank.
Love and hope. Yes.
Thank you, Ken.
Beautiful, Merril.
Just go with the muse. Writing is release when that is what you are compelled to do. Forcing it serves no purpose so be gentle with yourself.
Sending love your way
Thank you very much, Dale. ❤️
Time has its own dimensions. Beautiful. (K)
Thank you very much, Kerfe.
Beautiful, Merril. Take care of yourself. ❤️
Waaay too much stuffed into the past 2 weeks, and you’ve had more to cope with than most of us. That you’re putting up a daily poem is both heartening and heart-wrenching. Wishing you love and hope in the span till next new moon.
Thank you very much. ❤️ I appreciate your kind words. I’m not posting every day now, just as the spirit or muse strikes.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing. I need these reads to make me sane this quarantine times.
By the way, I am a new blogger and I just recently, I made a challenge to myself. For the next 21 days I will be visiting blog put its blog link on my blog. I hope you can support me this.
I also followed your blog.
Thank you very much for visiting. As I’m grieving right now, I’m not commenting much on other blogs.
Very well done, Merril
Thank you, Derrick.
Absolutely beautiful 💗
So ethereal and yet early. This is beautiful Merrill
most lovely Merril, very tender ….
Thank you very much, Susan.
Yes, indeed!!! Reminds me a little bit of Fred Rogers’ mother’s advice to “look for the helpers” when there is a crisis…
Hi Will. Thank you. I hadn’t thought of that, as I’m grieving now myself, but reading it over, I see what you mean. Thank you! I hope you and your loved ones are well.
This is so beautiful
Thank you so much!
Sometimes focus is hard to come by when in the midst of grief (and sometimes it’s laser-like). This is beautiful, Merril. “within the feathered beats of moon song” ❤
Thank you very much, Robin! ❤️
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Love those last two lines. Well said.
Pat
Thank you very much, Pat.
Despite all you’re going through, this is beautiful. You’re a remarkable lady, and I know you made your Mom proud. ❤️
Thank you very much for your kind words. ❤️
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