Embrace life like you will never die.
Ground your feet on the earth but reach for the sky.
Laugh like worries don’t exist.
Enjoy your health like you’ll never be sick.
Yes, there may come a day
when shadows paint your life with gray.
But, to anticipate these times of bad,
will paste pallor over the good you have.
You won’t be any more prepared
than if you’d been caught unaware.
All worrying ever really does
is distract you from the joy that was.
6 comments:
you have got that right!
So true!
Do you realize that poem by poem you're writing a book of poems?
Susan
Mike and Corina, Thank you! ;-)
Susan, true poetry is so over my head. I am afraid my little ditties would be laughed at as "real" poetry. They are fun to write, though, so I keep doing it.
Dear Tamara,
I've written those kind of "ditties" my entire life because my mother did. She used to write poems for everything. (She also wrote a column for a neighborhood newspaper for 40 years.)
At some point, I had a notebook made for her and she typed all her poems and put them in the book.
She died two years ago, and her book of poems is one of my most prized possessions.
I believe that sometimes we have these wonderful skills that come so easy to us that we "negate" their value. Personally, I like the "ditties" much better than the serious stuff.
Susan
Susan,
It sounds like you had a very special mother and I know it was a huge loss when she died. How wonderful that you have her poems collected together! Not many people have something so unique from their parents.
I have to say that I usually prefer easily understood poetry and a bit of humor makes it even more enjoyable.
Hugs,
Tamara
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