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Balance in the Rabbitry

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Could it be
Is is true?
Finally
After a year of trying
Could there be????

OH, there is!
Excitement rises!
I see two brokens!
Chocolate they are!!!

I gasp
I feel emotions arise
I have baby chocolates again!
Yes, my heart cries.

Thank my Lord
I’ve done a breeding right!
Oh now, what should I do?

Shall I do as I always?
Leave the babes with mom tonight?
Or…

Shall I fuss a bother and
Worry over them so…

My joy fights with worry
What should I do?
Then clear-headedness arrives
Let the babies find their way.
Let health prove out.
BUT be mindful

Balance it out.
In one week shelve these babes
Guard against night feedings
With babies popping out.

But until then…
Watch them grow
Be delighted and
Hold those smiles close
To Your Heart.

Balance in the Rabbitry

Now it’s your turn, come join us won’t you?  Every Friday Kate gives us a new word.   This week it is Balance.

Value (a poem)

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I tried to have fun with this poem.  It often surprises me where a single word will take me.  What does value mean to you?

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One dollar, two dollar, three dollar more
Better hurry up
Gotta run to the store!

Bread, bananas, muffins and cake
Gotta buy it fast
Gonna head for the lake!

Count it out,
Add it up
Make it last
Don’t use it up fast.

One dollar, two dollar, three dollar more
Figuring out the value
When I’m out at the store.

Do I need bananas?
I might not need the cake.
I definitely need the bread
I’ve a student for goodness sake!

Oregano check
What? I don’t need Basil!
Popcorn, Milk,
Corn on the table.

Eggs! Eggs!
I mustn’t forget them too!
Cake, muffins, cookies to make
Try boiled, or scrambled fried do?

Here lad it’s your turn
Give it a whirl
Manage our budget
Let the money unfurl.

The value of money
is not easily learned.
It’s better to learn young
Than as an adult be burned.

Value (a poem)

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Rinse, Repeat

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Another day
Another load
Pinks today
Fold yesterday’s blacks

Mom, have you seen?
I need my black pants!
They are folded here lad
Take them up with you next?

Mother my shirt?
The white one, I dance?
Capoiera dance fight
I practice?

Hun! That dress shirt, I need
Has it been done yet this week?
Tomorrow my love,
The lights will come next.

Load after Load
Sometimes drudgery it seems
Until I hear the need
that it fills

Clothes have a job.
I’m learning you see
You can’t do the job
If the clothes you don’t have.

Some lessons come slow
My heart no longer frowns
Thanks and the need
Heart smiles they give.

God reminds
In a still quiet voice
A help-meet I am
I can make it my choice. 🙂

Rinse, repeat. a poem about laundry

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Come join us won’t you? Miss Kate’s put up the word prompt…. REPEAT. Five minutes to write, give a word a chance to fill. Link up and encourage anyone’s heart, You’ll find it a thrill.

Share life with an international student

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share life with international student

International student
Comes with wide eyes!
Some fear, some excitement
What is in store for him here?

A new Land, a new people
What kind of food?
A new room? A bed?
Or maybe on the floor?

A new flag?
Maple leaves!
Red and white
not yellow, green and blue.

A new school?
My teacher, says I come play baseball?
I hear people speak good Portuguese!!!!
but I learn English!

Youth group
HEY! Your ride is here?
Oh I go with him?
I have fun!

I’m going to a wizardry weekend?
You want to come?
We volunteer and then go have fun
YES.

This weekend it is
Thanksgiving to share
A new holiday to see
Turkey and taters!

Family, come meet
My new son for five months
Conversation and laughter
Welcoming grins.

Games to play
Uno a hit!!!
Play every night?
Uh.. let’s try another for a bit. 🙂

Homeschooling what is?
The question is asked
So off to a teen night
Fun to be had!

I heartily recommend
an International student to have
Share ideas, share laughter
New experiences to be had.

Come join us won’t you?   Kate is hosting a five minute freewrite this week (Friday).  The word this week is Share.   Visit others, think on a word, blog or not.  Just share your thoughts.  🙂

Complete

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Alone, working nights
Raising mice, and wee piggies,
Life seemed perfect except
I needed a friend,
Someone who would understand,
who could listen about my wanting deepness
with God and struggling with what my church taught me.

Enter a man, with a wimpy dog
My dog beat him up (tried) when they first met.
Friendship formed. Hearts listened.
Completeness
Yet, not quite

A lad came along
A talkative fellow who made noises
at me all day long even as a youngster, and
now a young man growing, chatter fills our days
Completeness
Yet, not quiteComplete, a poem

God keeps calling
Reminding me, showing
Gathering me in, Beckoning,
Examples in disciples of long ago.
Remembering, and then telling.
Completeness?
Not sure.

Then as I ponder I see
Rabbits…the joy of critters
The lad… the wonder of learning and growth
The hubby…the steadiness and push to be more.
And before I know it.. I see it.
The completeness the Lord has given
Different pieces that aren’t quite enough
and rounded out
These gifts of God
Along with the calling and the showing and the teaching
Gives me what I need
to be
Complete.

KATE has her five minute Friday prompt gig going on again this Friday.
Join us won’t you?

Crowd, a poem

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Stop, Start, stop
hesitate, look,
see the gap, move quickly
step, step, glance around
child with? Good.

Stop, catch your breath
Take a moment to look around
Ah yes, a spot, hurry scurry
Grab it, smile at the couple sitting next
Encourage lad to sit with children.

Gather self,
Sit, listen
Oh my… Listen closely
This one, this one teaches
He teaches like he KNOWS.

Quiet wonder,
Sitting with eyes closed so
as to take it all in.

He teaches, like he’s never had it taught to him
Like he knows his lesson like he knows his own self.
Amazing.

The crowd is silent
Surpised as I am
even the lad is quiet, listening
You can just see the wonder,
the knowing on his face.

This is no ordinary teacher.

a crowd of people on grass, text crowd, a poem

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Come on now, JOIN US! Kate’s put up the word CROWD. What thoughts that does spawn in your brain? In your heart? Spill them out in a five minute free-write, and link up. Encourage those who have gone on before and just write for the joy of writing. 🙂

 

Will the Rains Come?

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Summer heat
Glistens off my back
Radiating warmth that fills my being
and leaves me
feeling loggy.

Humidity rises
A flinch, a drop of blood
A flying pest escapes,
Drained, and somnolent

Crackling dry grass
Cicadas sing high in the trees
Frogs ponder quietly, soaking
No lawns to mow, heat oh the heat
Will ever the rains come?

Forest fires
Panic rises, whose home is next?
Deer run, gather in farmers fields
Foxes creep  to water troughs ducking low
Birds squawk in unfamiliar territory.

Smoke, fetid and heavy
Clouding the skies
Peering into the heavens
People watching, hoping,
The flies are harbinger of good
Will the rains come?

When will the rains come?

Join us will you not? Kate’s hosting Five Minute Friday again this week. It’s a nice community of people gathering to write and you are so welcome to join us.