Kindness – Page 4 – My husband's poetry

Insomnia

Dec 11, 2019

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in Belonging / Loneliness, corporate America, Death & Afterlife, for someone else, friends, grief, humbleness, inflation money poverty, Kindness, regrets, work

In the middle of the night it is worse – everything is quiet you feel rain on the roof smell dry leaves rustle in trees hear musty spores propagate in the yard outside your door You sit on the edge of your bed trying to calm the swirling feels that keep you awake at night…

The Gleaning

Nov 22, 2019

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cfblack

in Belonging / Loneliness, Death & Afterlife, Family, grief, Kindness, Time

This morning I heard ….I heard a friend A friend got his miracle …..His miracle a lung A lung from someone …..Someone with a family A family who loved and prayed …..Prayed for a miracle A miracle of more time …..Time to love just a bit Just a bit more time …..Time to love just…

Talking with Mary

Nov 21, 2019

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cfblack

in Illusion, immigrants, Kindness, Racial & Social justice, sexism, spiritual

She said she walks to church each morning but does not go to mass She said she lights a candle for all her children ICE took away She said she talks with the statue of Mary and Mary talks back _____ She said she avoids confession and the man behind the screen She said she…

A Sunny Day Recipe for Smiling

Nov 6, 2019

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cfblack

in daily life, Kindness

If you need only one quarter for a parking meter use six it will make someone smile when you leave 11-6-19

Sycamore ants

Nov 4, 2019

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cfblack

in childhood, insects, Kindness, trees

In our back yard at the base of a sycamore tree lived brown ants – I would feed them cake crumbs and cinnamon sugar toast on sunny summer afternoons Watch them swarm and carry it away dry days, I would sprinkle water on the ground evenings, I watched them crawl up the bark higher than…

Category: Kindness

Insomnia

The Gleaning

Talking with Mary

A Sunny Day Recipe for Smiling

Sycamore ants