NEVER AGAIN!

Biscayne Bay, Miami

Animal Magic – How would you react to meeting these Manatee creatures under water?

My answer, with screams of “help! get me out of the water!

That’s what happened to me one summer visit with my family as my brother insisted I learn how to water ski.  As I fell into the bay, a school of Manatees surrounded me as I waited for the boat to scoop me up.  My brother yelled, ‘they are gentle, they won’t hurt you, calm down,” fortunately, he was right.  The next morning I woke up with a bruised body and never tried waterskiing again.  That experience was enough–haha!

LIFE WRITING

Poppies by Lucid Being

HAIKU

Life without beauty

or dreams is very lonely.

Life writing is easy

“All dreams spin out from the same web.”

–Hopi Saying

LIVING WATER

Water by Kess

HAIKU

Water flows fluid

forms a lacy tapestry

such is flow of life

“Water is a teacher, a healer, a mirror.”

–Jennifer Williamson

“Running water that doesn’t stale, revive in its current.”

–yours truly

THE EXPERIENCE OF OUR AGE

A Bing Image

Poem by Rita A. Simmons

We are the Sign

The Word is lost

and cannot be retrieved

like a prophet tossed

into a warring sea

then swallowed whole

by an enormous fish

that swims away

and leaves no trace.

The keystone gone,

we’re crushed and caught.

We breathe the dust

the absence brings.

No other way to know the cost.

How can we live

if God’s cast off?

Yet we’re alive

and so remain.

This sign He gives

to an evil age.

 

NOW, NOW, GRASSHOPPER

Whimsical HAIKU

Now, now, grasshopper

Danger in the water, think

twice before jumping!

IN LOVING KINDNESS

HAIKU

A real heart is kind

mercy deep as the ocean

a gift to behold

With loving kindness, I thank you, my dear heart dwellers, for your presence here.