Today's poem prompt from Robert Lee Brewer: For today's prompt, write a pessimistic poem. *** I shared the verse below on yesterday's post HERE I am sharing it again today because it felt like a divine reminder when I needed it most! Psalm 116:13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. (read the whole glorious chapter HERE) Sometimes I forget... The cup of salvation and the name of the Lord supply every need! Hallelujah and thank-you, dear Savior! Sometimes I forget, happiness in this world is not the end goal! (But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his r ..read more

Psalm 116:13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. (read the whole glorious chapter HERE) The pink-bud blaze before first-leaf green haze... Sometimes the past feels like a dream or scenes an artist drew Its measure of moments like mist of seasons spilled and spent Like Aprils, marbled into blurs of green, gold, gray and blue Or like a book we read but could not keep, a volume lent The joys of life teach us to sing, its griefs teach us to pray To lift salvation’s cup and call upon the name of God The older that I get the more I attend to Today Before i ..read more

Job 14:1-2 Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. We are a community in mourning after a tragic traffic accident Death has a way of re-reminding us  to look our beloved families, neighbors and friends in the eye and love them like we were on borrowed time! We never know from day to day what will unfold of joy or grief Life grants no guarantees but one; death an ineludible Chief 'Man born of woman’s, days are few and full of trouble', we are told We never know who ..read more

Today's poem-a-day prompt from Robert Lee Brewer. For today's prompt, write a living poem. Today and every day  is our lifelong legacy in the making! Let's make it treasure-able? This poem is about a Treasured Legacy I inherited simply by being her granddaughter!! Both of my gramma's birthdays were in April, one on the 3rd, and one on the 13th! (I hope a kind cousin or sibling corrects me if I got the dates confused...) Today would be your birthday... Caught by surprise... I think if we would line up the stitches she sewed in her lifetime they would reach to heaven and back So ..read more

Today's poem-a-day prompt from Robert Lee Brewer. For today's prompt, write a living poem. The lap of luxury, I think Is a bottomless well of ink A wildness in the untamed grace Of what to some, seems commonplace A keen awareness of The One Whose Sovereignty can't be outdone  As, from each breath that He so wills A sense of unplumbed wonder spills Surely, best-of-the-blessed are we who see through eyes of poetry who find in the grind of life's grit a kind of awe, in spite of it to kindle, through its thick and thin a mighty ocean 'neath our skin where teeming tempests tug a ..read more

 Today's Poem-a-day challenge from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer' Digest 'For today's prompt, write a funny poem. Keep in mind that funny isn't always "ha-ha" funny. For instance, your poem could include a funny smell or talk about a funny (or weird) person or situation. And if you've ever hit your funny bone, that pain is not making anyone laugh. So write a funny poem, whether it's for a laugh or not.' The other evening it was man (woman) against nature as the lawn rollers showed up before I was quite finished raking up pine cones etc.! Nature won and woman got drenched but lawn is raked ..read more

poem-a-day challenge from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest For today's prompt, write a memory poem.  My husband wants to get rid of what he sees as a gnarly eye sore... and I see as a work of art... both Season-art and Memory-art. maybe because another old apple tree  from my childhood made me see this one through wizened eyes... This tree my Grandpa planted, long before we bought it when we bought their house... this tree my children climbed, and now my grandchildren, along with many others that passed through my care Here's a bit of season-memory art... I ..read more

 poem-a-day challenge from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest For today's prompt, write a memory poem.  The Past is not always done with just because it was ages ago- Third Girl, A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie  Let's make the kind of memory that is second to none... Jim couldn't resist the 'purple throne'?? Sometimes, when I am feeling brave and strong, I gently trace The outline of mementos that compile, year after year  But, then I put them back where they belong; content to place Them in Bygone's embrace, and concentrate on Now and Here  Because t ..read more

Today's poem-a-day prompt from Robert Lee Brewer at Writer's Digest For today's prompt, take the phrase "(blank) Better,"  replace the blank with a new word or phrase,  make the new phrase the title of your poem, a nd then, write your poem. This poem was influenced by Impending Planting Season!!? Prov.23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:... Then, we should watch well, Thought's Seed Jar... Because thought turns to word or deed And these become the scattered seed That bears the fruit that will affect More than personal intellect Before we speak or act, we ought To ..read more

  Today's poem topic prompt from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest For today's Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a love poem, and/or... Write an anti-love poem. Rom.12:21 Do not be overcome by evil,  but overcome evil with good. Completely Known, Completely Loved Love encounters no burned bridges For, love keeps no count of wrong It does not harbor old grudges Love forgives and carries on Love, not overcome by evil Overcomes evil with good God is love’s perfect example Though often misunderstood Love is God’s eternal promise Therefore love can never fail Because God is love ..read more