Warm Hugs

Letting the sunshine in through palm leaves

Learning
To be kind to yourself

Learning
Not to judge yourself harshly

Learning
To listen to your nicer inner voice

Learning
To Love yourself

My 12 year old is still Learning
But then
So am I

How are you going with this?

#poetry #learning #selflove #photography #ArtInNature

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🩷 I’m looking forward to it! Baby steps! 😬🤣

Never too old
To learn new things

Never too old
For change

Never too old
To challenge yourself

Never too old
To start …

#poetry #newthings #mahjong #photography #beginner

A pussy willow glowing quietly, carrying the promise of life returning.

A dreaming star
remembering
how to be a flower…

#BloomOnPurpose #photography
#nature #ArtInNature

There is always time
To turn things around
Maybe it’s time
To try …

#poetry #time #try

Pelican.

Love blooms where trust and tenderness meet. ~ Whispers of Roses

You’re a unique puzzle
And someone’s perfect piece…

#RomanticSaturday #Nature
#ArtInNature #photography #Roses

volatile love
a promise of calm oceans
but we bring thunder
in our pockets
for one fragile moment

Tentative as the
First buds of Spring, I let you
In, now in full bloom.
#BedroomEyesPrompt #FirstBuds #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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@southernjam.bsky.social

Morning Landing Window, Rome

July clouds New Mexico.

we are all
ants flowing
in different directions
in search of
the unknown…..

#BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing #photography #Micropoetry #freeverse #eastcoastkin #ants

Espresso martinis and a card that reads ‘when we’re together we’re cooler that everyone else’

True is true …

Anyone joining us?

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Rain clouds and rainbows … the beauty and ‘ugly’ that can cone from letting big love in

Love…

A Love that when you let it in
Makes you Ugly Cry

… That

#micropoetry #love #biglove #open

An ivory rose

It made her laugh
Then cry
A total blubbering mess
Of joy
Of happiness
Of knowing they understood her

Of
Love …

…
…
…

And this my dear friends is the Power of Poetry

Poetry they wrote
Just for Her

#poetry #power #love #parents

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Worry

A weight made up of nothingness
Fills minds to overflow

Heaviness -
Oh so heavy you are in my body

Can’t move
Can’t sleep
Stomach churns

Still, in physicality … Worry … you do not exist

How
Do you hold such power?

Have
Such control?

Why
Do I let you
Win?

#power #poetry #worry

Swans on the Thames

She never wanted
Answers
Only to be
Heard

#micropoetry #photography #swans #answers

Blue and white hyacinths in a beam of sunshine

🌿☕Sunshine!!🌞

The Victorians created a whole language around flower meanings🪻Bouquets were gifted to send messages, all flowers meaning different things, a way of sending a coded message without saying anything aloud

Purple hyacinths symbolize forgiveness & regret, while love, purity & prayer🙏

Old stone wall in England with the countryside beyond

That feeling of hurt that no longer cuts but forms a scar.
A heaviness and wall.
A protection and dull ache.
An uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach.
An overwhelming tiredness.

- That.

#poetry #feelings #hurt #wall #photography

There is no song
To fill her heart
No poem
To fill her needs
There is no meal
To satiate her hunger
No flowers
To make her smile
There is -
Nothing.

Nothing
But
Time.

#poetry #poem #nothing

Two roses face away from each other in a wine bottle base. Both dying.

Sometimes it hurts too much
To heal

#micropoetry #photography #ArtInNature

Steel may forget, but
It does not forgive, edges
Gleam for one purpose.
#2WordPrompt #Forgive/Steel #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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A photo from our campsite on Burnt Lake in the BWCA. A line of silhouetted trees line a peninsula jutting out into the lake. The sky is bright yellow behind the trees, moving toward shades of orange into a near cloudless sky of blue. It’s early morning. A gentle breeze causes some small activity on the previously calm water.

We are connected,
Entwined in Nature’s beauty,
Beyond resilient.

#Photography #BWCA #Haiku

Rose petals of deep scarlet, soft enough to carry a thousand unspoken words.

Tender as two hands meeting
Soft, wild, warm...

#RomanticSaturday #Nature
#ArtInNature #photography #Roses

Broken vase with dying sunflowers

Why does she always feel broken?

Too emotional
Too naive
Not smart enough
Not beautiful enough
Always needing reassurance
Always so easy to cry
Scared to be more
Never feeling seen
Too high
Too low

Why does she always feel broken?

Because she is.

#poetry #photography #broken

Palm leaves glow in the sunlight and flutter in the breeze

Messages
Silent messages
Messages
She does not understand
She asks for signs
They do appear
Yet meanings,
Are Lost
In the wind

#poetry #photography #messages

A thin shell I call a mermaids tail shining in the sun light in front of a turquoise sea. #photography #shell

Where do your emotions sit?

Are they deep down hidden within? Are they wrapped in layer upon layer of foil, reflecting any attempts to get in?

Mine, I’m sorry to say, are right up close. Skin like translucent shell so brittle and thin it hides them not.
Easy to See,
Hear
And Hurt.

#poetry

The sun’s arrival on a cool March Monday produces reddish and pink coloring to clouds that are giving way to blue skies behind tall-reaching trees. This view was captured from my backyard when letting Rocky out for his “morning business.”

The beauty
of a sunrise,
doesn’t reside
in only its vibrance
and hues,
but in the mortality,
of its transitory,
visit.

#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#skypic

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