Tag: discovery

Reblogs – Suzette Benjamin & Reena Saxena

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Finding out who and where you were meant to be is the best gift you can give yourself.

Untitled Senryū by Suzette Benjamin

“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name… A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

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Senryū inspired by the above quote:

on a winding road
passing by a traveler
I find she was me

Entangled by Reena Saxena

pulled by
dark memories
pushed by dreams, parts of me
ride ahead – I disentangle
myself

Lorraine Lewis

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DARKEST MYSTERY

Darkest mystery
Pure gems within the darkness
I walk in the dark

OCEAN OF LOVE

Darkness
As light lifts me
As I walk the unknown
Pastures in the shadow of death
Refreshed
Renewed
By the silent still waters deep
In the ocean of love
I never knew
In life

OVER THE BRIDGE

Over the bridge mists
Sigh out love songs divinely
Calling me to life

WILLOW 

Willow you weep dawn 
Brings tears in dew to your leaves
Glistening with hope

FOREST

Forest green deep joys
Draw me to your chanting prayer
Divine sacredness

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My name is Lorraine Lewis. I have always written poetry but began to write more in earnest following having serious advanced blood cancer and going blind and becoming wheelchair-bound. I greatly enjoy experimenting with different forms of poetry, preferring shorter forms. 

Lorraine was featured twice in 2020 – March 27 & December 18, and published in The Sound of Brilliance.

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Springboarding

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My process is to Read, Think and Write. You might say it’s quite simplistic, but you’d be wrong.

The only effortless part of the process is reading. It’s a joy to immerse myself in others’ thoughts, get to know them through their words. And they spur me on towards my musings about things. Their things. They create an interest in me I need to discover further and intensely.

I think diligently. Mull their things over inside my brain and insides. What does it feel like to them, what does it feel like to me? What do I think about that as it presents to the world? Would I do/feel different or do I agree? Does it propel me into taking the next step to evaluate it on paper? Is it a stepping stone, and does it catapult me into furthering my own greatness? These questions, this wrapping myself up in their writing allows me to discover another level of myself.

I am but the person who takes the intentional influence and runs with it. Every thought gives me new reasons to soar with the eagles.

Read… Think… Write…                                                                                                                           That’s living.

And that’s succeeding in my book.