PROMPT: Favorite Time

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite time of day?

When all is quiet and harmonious, and one anticipates good things are to come.

PROMPT: 30 Things

Daily writing prompt
List 30 things that make you happy.

1.) love; 2.) a glorious turn of phrase; 3.) discovery; 4.) walking; 5.) swimming; 6.) stumbling upon an interesting and / or novel idea; 7.) movement; 8.) travel; 9.) street food; 10.) quiet; 11.) health; 12.) recognition that when things are at their very worst, they must get better — because everything is impermanent; 13.) an intense stretch; 14.) Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass;” 15.) undiscovered country; 16.) the hanging moment; 17.) a mystery-laden world; 18.) a moment of flow; 19.) a mountain path; 20.) a clear stream; 21.) the way of non-adversariality; 22.) a thing stripped to its simplest form; 23.) the moment breath turns the tide; 24.) animals being animals; 25.) a brief instant of free fall; 26.) the recognition that something that used to cause me angst or fear no longer does; 27.) when body, movement, and the world fall into alignment; 28.) first contact with someplace / something new; 29.) connection; 30.) the first sign that the struggle is paying off.

Quiet [Haiku]

pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.

Town Square in Winter [Haiku]

Winter's eve:
town square vacant;
only the church is lit.

Jungle [Common Meter]

They say jungles are chaotic.
I find them as silent
As the world that is aquatic...
Though no less violent.

Quiet Moments of Buddha Time [Poem]

in quiet moments
of Buddha time
i watch the world
like a man who's blind

i sing my songs 
like a drunken sage
and offer curses
as though free of rage

POEM: Snowy Street [PoMo Day 14 – Prose Poem]

I walked a snowy street, quietly as the falling snow, a snow that melted under foot, not one that crunched - compacting. Everything was deadened by that not-so-cold snow, a snow that swallowed sound, a snow that would have shunned light -- had there been any to shun. But it was night, and I was walking in the snow.