Photo – Barbara Kausteklis – Oahu 2013 FOR EVERY DAY GRATEFUL Wouldn’t it be wonderful, wouldn’t it be grand if every day everything would simply go my way, exactly as I planned? I’m afraid that’s just not the way it is most of the time or even meant to be; very few things […]
NOT BY CHANCE I come here again this morning where we’ve gotten together at least a time or two before, as the words of my heart have spilled onto this page and have been left to rest here exactly where they fall. And I share them with you in a meeting of our […]
AUTUMN TRANSFORMATION Golden blossoms dance in the gardens of my heart, transformed musings that sing in tune with the season, morning mist girding hills ripe with fruit and flower as Autumn returns. (c) barbara kausteklis 9-24-13 Written for CPC “Pick-Apart Poetry Celebrates the Arrival of Autumn. http://www.friendburst.com/blog/111440/cpc-pick-apart-poetry-celebrates-autumns-arrival/ Thanks always for your visits and comments. Aloha […]
“Stormy Sea With Lighthouse” by Karl Blechen LOVE’S REWARD Drenched in tears raining upon her heart, she voyaged forth until finding a path to her love clearly lost and the light of day, sallying forth and out of desperation’s way. Once lost, now found, havoc left behind, their cup again full so loving […]
“Balance” by Brenda Lyons aka Windfalcon FOREVER ENTWINED Enlightened, spellbound magic enveloped within Love’s power; Love’s force drawn one to the other, two hearts and two souls united and forever bound together in mystical union, cocooned and forever sheltered within love still unfolding. For in and within one another forever, mirrored images, reflections, ethereal, […]
WITHIN THE SHADE OF SUMMER On a summer’s day when all is still and the temperature rising as the sun finds its way to noon, I come to this place that calls to me, where silence speaks most eloquently, where possibilities dance within the wind, beckoning my heart to dream with them. And […]
“Mystical Flowers” by Aditya Ikranegara STEP-BY-STEP Trying to look as though I’m in complete control, attempting to find my way across this stage of life one step at a time, I find myself dancing with steps quite unsure, dancing lightly upon the edge of each and every day, as I try so very […]
My very first attempt at a poetic form known as a Ghazal which was the featured format at this past Friday’s CPC Friday Fling . . . . The format is included down at the bottom of the page. JUST TEMPORARY Thunderstorms blaze a trail across a summer sky as children try […]
RECHARGING THE BATTERIES by Barbara K A CPC COLLAB Feeling so down when things don’t go as planned, sometimes it’s simply difficult to begin to understand the why’s and the wherefore’s of things that we do and why things go awry when we didn’t mean them to. It’s hard to put on […]
LOOKING FORWARD BY BARBARA K A CHERYL’S PALS COLLAB Embers fading at the end of this day, this year taking a final bow and exiting the same way as it has each year before with a bang and a flash. Snapshots recorded and tucked away and letting go of residual bitterness and pain, the old […]
