Thursday Thoughts on A Wednesday

Thursday Thoughts (little verses)

 started when I had Thursdays off...

Now they happen more or less where ever they land:)

The ladies were teasing me that my mind is likely composing a poem

as we conversed etc. this morning but it just does not work like that...

I often sit down, not planning on the words that come!

They often take a direction all their own

even when the hunger was for a poem of an entirely other nature.

All said, it was a fun, far too fast few hours!

In time we begin to appreciate Appreciation

Valuing the simple celebration

Of what is

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As the years go by we learn to re-learn

How, what we thought we knew

Was a stepping-stone

To what we think we know

For now

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It is not enough

To spout love-poems

Love is a second-mile language

Often in plain, sometimes painful

Syllables

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To know when to speak

And when to be quiet

Now, there is a woman!

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It all goes by so fast

We should remember

Not to forget

To remember this

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The will to be willing

Is a battle half-won

But the battle to be willing

Is never quite done

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 We should give today all we can

No more

But no less

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Let’s admit it

We should quit it

All this keeping score

*If we have each other

We have so much

To be thankful for

© Janet Martin

*This community is mourning the sudden loss of my niece's class-mate

whose dad is my nephew's gym teacher. 

A few hours away a community also mourns the loss of a youth

with family-ties to this community!

Let's commit to cherishing each other with gentle kindness while we may!