plan for magic
then just begin
after all
aliveness is in the happening
(adventure cannot find you on the couch)
choose a cloud to follow
out the back door
let the sky touch your face
welcome all reflections
look until you find the
beautiful
© Ali Grimshaw 2024
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Write a 44 word poem inspired by touch.
“Because the heart dwells in unattended dark, we often forget its sublime sensitivity to everything that is happening to us. Without our ever noticing, the heart absorbs the joy of things and also their pain and care. Within us, therefore, a burdening can accrue. For this reason, it is wise now and again to tune in to your heart and listen for what it carries.
– Let Your Heart Speak, John O’Donohue
along the path of daily breathing
to hear my heart’s needs
saturation of all to be felt
(all muscles need rest to continue lifting)
I sit inside a song of silence
listening for imaginings of the heart
possibilities of becoming
dreams beyond my thinking
© Ali Grimshaw 2024
Quadrille Monday – Imagine at dVerse Poets’ Pub. Join in the fun HERE.
he oversees the lagoon of
discarded worries
an under-demanding position
here visitors arrive worried-stiff
wrapped in cloud confusion
while misty banks ease the release
of hidden heartbreak underneath
their layers of anxious hopefulness
as fears are flung into waters
with rippling relief
reflecting reprieve
© Ali Grimshaw 2024
Join a friendly group of poets at dVerse. Find directions for your Quadrille poem HERE.
Photo taken on a walk in Portland, Oregon. This kind face brought this poem to mind.
Oh what can be unfolded inside my twisted heart by sunlight on water as artful swimmers ease through surface and depth as one painting. I'm captivated by colors that ask What is truly lasting? When the world shouts, IMPOSSIBLE! Love replies, "Just watch me." © Ali Grimshaw 2023 Quadrille #168 - Fold Learn more about this and join the fun HERE Photo taken in Croatia 2023.
oh goddesses of green grand guardians I pine for you still your assembly of sacred shade moss-softness watercolored pools diving deeply your wild emerald waters left me yearning for freedom like a river rush of riverstones cool slide of ease no thoughts for tomorrow © Ali Grimshaw 2023 Join a welcoming community of poets at dVerse, for Quadrille #182 Are You Pining for Poems? - HERE Photo taken last week in the wilds of Washington state. Thankfully this forest has been spared the wildfires.
how many ways can a mountain be climbed? sometimes rocky sometimes layered years of the fallen soften this upward trail are you yearning for the peak panorama? questioning clarity of sky quickening pace as noon's rising? befriend pine-scented warmth each ascent like none before © Ali Grimshaw 2023 - Photo taken on a recent Montana hike. Happy 12th Anniversary dVerse Poets' Pub Join us with a quadrille HERE.
how many days can you claim bold aliveness kindergarten eagerness ignited intentions bright contagiousness of shared lifting sky-filled unerasable strokes readable by all baring yourself beautiful with each word from your mouth skinny-dipping freedom because words of love deserve all capitals sing unification undeniable © Ali Grimshaw 2023 Join us on dVerse for Quadrille Monday #167 BOLD-ly Go HERE Photo taken in Puerto Vallarta, Mexio.
like wandering children we stepped gingerly in morning iced-light far from Christmas past far from storefronts, Amazon delivery miles from anything that necessitated wrapping we were gifted with captured stillness a fantastical frozen roadside of candied red delight reigned and our hearts were awed © Ali Grimshaw 2022 Wishing you wellness and peace wherever you are whatever you celebrate. May love land on your day. Ali Join us at dVerse Poet's Pub for Quadrille #166 HERE
bring on lime laced mango merry tangerine power-punch lemon-chiffon nectar to top it off let's get sloshed on boughs and falling flavors from heavenly highlights above our heads we can pretend to be gods drinking in sunshine soaked crimson latenight cavorting without morning consequences © Ali Grimshaw 2022
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| “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” – The Violin Conspiracy |
tossing a torch of love-light my intentional hope that you will catch it hold it high light your way forward your choice offers a candlelight of possibilities or coals diminishing left untended my heartwork dancing from within fueled by other's embers those past torches © Ali Grimshaw 2020 Join in the fun at dVerse Quadrille Monday - HERE Let me hold space for your voice to appear on the page at the next Write Yourself: Poetry Writing Circle September 17, 2022 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT Register HERE
flashlight batteries - Ali Grimshaw 