Motivational Monday: December 18, 2017

It's motivational Monday, 

The day I state my goals for the coming week. 

It's motivational Monday, 

The day I begin achieving this week's goals. 

It's motivational Monday, 

Six days until my 71st birthday. 

It's motivational Monday, 

Thirteen days until 2017 ends and 2018 begins. 

It's motivational Monday, 

I need to clean off my computer desk before the end of 2017. 

Poetry: The Start of Something Wonderful

1 

What was there before the big bang? 

Magnificence reverberations. 

2 

Joy reverberates 

Echoing God's Most Great Name 

Obedience-love. 

3 

Grass changes 

As the seasons progress: 

Spring's new growth foretells 

Death's cold fingers 

Penetrating winter's desolate fields. 

Prayers rise 

Out of the fields of summer 

Generating autumn's harvest. 

4 

The perfect storm 

Washing away everything 

Expect the Beloved. 

He Has Come or The Lord's Return

Hidden in the clouds of glory, 

He has come, 

With then thousand angels, 

He has come. 

Steam Dragons

Steam dragons rise

From smokestack wombs,

Frigid air severs

Their umbilical cords.



Free to fly

Wherever they choose

Steam dragons

Merge with the new born light of dawn.

December Inspiring

December 

Is inspiring, 

Not because 

Of the winter holidays, 

But because 

It is my birth month. 

Memories 

of December's past 

Always encourage 

Poems and prose. 

Dandelion

Love is a dandelion, 

Planting itself in your mind, 

A clever dandy lion, 

Manufacturing your goal. 

Late Autumn Dawn

Dawns light 

Penetrates my retinas 

Burns holes in my brain 

And releases the pressure that demands 

Another hour of sleep 

Love defined on the Second Sunday in December 2017

The dawn of a new day, 

Rising rosy over hills of gray. 

God's eternal light, 

Giving hope through the darkest night. 

The generating impulse that began creation, 

And set the universe in motion. 

Spirituality

Soul's mirror reflects, 

Polished by tests and difficulties, 

Illumination 

Reaching it from the divine realm - 

In adversity, give thanks: 

Thankfulness, appreciation for 

Uncountable blessings showered 

At all times and under all conditions 

Light the spirit with love's rainbow - 

In prosperity, philanthropy: 

The blessings that we give away 

Yield roses in paradise. 

Meditation Nooks

Meditation nooks augment desert landscaping: 

Mexican blue fan palms line hidden walks, 

White flowered Yucca peek over shorter fans, 

White blooming green bottlebrush 

Spill onto curved garden paths, 

A green Fortnight Lily guards concealed ponds, 

While soft leaved Asparague Fern caresses the stone. 

Tranquility echoes 

The silence of meditation, 

As a new day begins.