I Fall in Love with Fall

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Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Terri Guillemets

I fall in love with fall every time it arrives!

The Art of Forgiveness

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. ~Robert Brault

The Only Way Out is Through

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Linking with Imaginary Gardens for the weekend mini challenge "Boats"

imagined by Kim

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

A wise poet once said, "The only way out is through",

 and when it comes to flooding that can be very true.

Sometimes you turn around and leave the way you came

and others it surrounds you and there is no quick escape.

You can start to wade through it or try to walk against the tide

but when it comes to flooding your better off with a boat ride.

So as you hold your two allotted bags and leave the home you knew

remember with most recoveries the only way out is through.

The view of our apartment before we were rescued out by boat.

(Keep in mind this is on stilts already.  That is how high the water was already!)

It seems that the only time I get in a boat is to escape flooding.  I went through this a year and a half ago and again recently with "Harvey".  You do not realize how powerful water can be until you see it rush through an area and take up the land like a raging giant. I have grown to have a very respectful fear of water.  Frankly sometimes I feel like moving to Arizona, but all my family is here and here is where I will stay, just not on the lower floor of these apartments.  So many people in this area are trying to completely start over their lives with new homes or gutting out and rebuilding the ones they are in.  So much loss and so much to do to renovate and move on.  It is much like true recovery, where one much face the problems at hand, dig through the rubble, endure the cleanup, and carry it through to completion.  Like so many solutions in life, truly the only way out is through.

My Love is Baptized by Immersion

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Linking with Imaginary Gardens for Rommy's challenge ~ Meme

The prompt is simple: grab a nearby book and flip to page 13 and go to the 7th line and use that sentence to find a quote that represents your love life.  You can also flip to the 7th page and go to the 13th line.  Take your pick, Come join the fun!

The closest book to me was: The Games by Ted Kosmatka

(The 13th page did not have enough lines, so I went with the 7th page)

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert 

This was my line: "The world around him retreated, became remote, irrelevant."



My Love is Baptized by Immersion,


My love is baptized by immersion it does not just linger at the water's edge
it dives in head first and reckless never concerned with what's up ahead
a simple christening with holy water just would never be the plan
it submerges all consuming into the deep love of another man
the world around it retreats becoming remote, irrelevant to what is true
for my love rises like surging flood waters diminishing the ground view
My love is baptized by immersion it does not wade in shallow waters safe
instead it plunges into distant oceans prepared for the greatest of tidal waves.

Change of Heart

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Linking with Poets United for Midweek Motif ~ Nature Her Words
Posted by Sumana

Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions. ~Keith Wynn



I fear you have not truly been listening my dear
I have been speaking for centuries and
you are still sipping your coffee gone cold
behind that shroud of a paper 
without a response
nor even a glance
what did I just say?
No I did not just say it is cold in here
on the contrary it is getting quite warm
warmer than my heart can handle

there was a time you listened to my voice

loved the feel of my breath upon your face

you climbed my mountains 

did not want to cut my trees

I guess you have had a change of heart

your love for me has grown as cold

as my ice caps used to hold strong

I guess it is going to take something drastic

 to make you care again

to make you have a change of heart

I hope then you will truly listen

to my voice.

Bigger is Not Always Better

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Linking with dVerse for Poetics: Border
brought to us by Grace

"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

~ Neil Simon

Sometimes my mind needs a border collie to steer it in the right direction 

cause my sense of boundaries sometimes gets lost

you see agoraphobia runs in our family

my grandmother only left the house 

once a year to vote

my mother followed the same path

our summers growing up were weeks on end at home

when I was in my 30's I discovered I had a touch of it

on a grander level if you will

we went on a trip to Missouri and I suddenly felt 

anxiety and had no reason why

after a couple jots out of town after that

I realized that when I left town I had the symptoms

it was like agoraphobia on a larger plain

my grandmother could not leave the house

but I could not leave town

wow leave it to my dysfunctional brain

to do it on a broader range.

The Dance Floor

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Linking with Imaginary Gardens for Bits of Inspiration ~ Keep Dancing

Imagined by Susie 

Come join us!

How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats

Sometimes humanity resembles the dancers on a dance floor;

each busily perfecting their moves,

never seeing passed their own steps,

hoping to impress

all the others...

but it is in vain...

for all the others

are doing the same.