QOTD: Harper Lee - Courage

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
R.I.P.

QOTD: Charles Spurgeon - Contentedness

“Remember this: had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances, and if you had the choosing of your lot, you would soon cry, 'Lord, choose my inheritance for me, for by my self-will I am pierced through with many sorrows.' Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.”

Charles Spurgeon

Poetry Hour: Entry 7 - She Sips in Silence - "Of Mists at Dawn"

Another poem from my portfolio, She Sips in Silence.

 

An Ode:

 

Of Mists at Dawn

 

The breath of God carries you.

Molasses slow, you roll and move.

Drifting, leaves quiver beneath your belly.

Blue morning light, you awaken.

Heavy, you spread wide to haunt

the forest floor; trees suspend and separate.

Thick, you pillow and bellow and

they act like sky-scrapers.

Peeking, they hang and hover.

The army of you charges, encloses, embraces.

Hugging, you hold their necks,

lifting long and high above your reach.

  

You stay for a time.

  

Purple, the light changes shade 

quicker than you can say goodbye.

Fading, you wrestle for life.

The shroud of you rips and recoils;

like a whisper, you’re but a moment

and the earth made lucid in your absence.

Unveiled, with grace you resign.

Vapors vanish away as they came.

Yellow, the light sweeps asunder.

A song alights your lover’s skin.

Requiem, the dawn calls forth 

and you sleep until the day’s rebirth.