Today's poem-a-day prompt from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest; For today's prompt, write a maximum poem... We never know what a day will bring so let's live each one to the max!  These past few evenings have been spent  in the barn next door... It reminded me of a song from my youth.. esp. this line 'it's nice to think about it, maybe even visit, but I wonder, could I live there anymore'. because Farming is very serious business these days, and not for the faint of heart. Charley Pride -- Wonder Could I Live There Anymore let's live life to its precious max, work h ..read more

It's been a solemn week, after a tragedy mentioned HERE and HERE as well as another neighboring farm mishap,  bringing two next door neighbors together in rooms side by side in a hospital over an hour away! I cannot divulge the details of some very anguishing moments juxtaposed with some very awesome ones  only a comforting God could orchestrate! Isa. 43:1-2 Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine! 2When you pass through the waters, I will be wit ..read more

Today's prompt for poem-a-day from Robert Lee Brewer offers endless options!! For today's prompt, pick an emotion,  make it the title of your poem,  and write your poem. I have received so many kind words,  messages, hug and heart emojis, and prayers and I thank you all! In spite of sadness mentioned HERE there is gladness! Grief keens awareness  and renewed gladness for life's simple blessings, doesn't it? In the midst of so much taken, always still so much remains  Kindness and compassion waken where trouble and sorrow pains  Time is ever b ..read more

Today's prompt for poem-a-day from Robert Lee Brewer offers endless options!! For today's prompt, pick an emotion,  make it the title of your poem,  and write your poem. My Faith Looks Up To Thee  It bleeds from my eyes How it aches in my soul It authors heart-cries Where death leaves a large hole  It bids me to fly To the hills of God's Word And like David, cry 'My help comes from the Lord' © Janet Martin Ps.121:1-2 I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?  My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. I Need Thee Every Hour ..read more

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