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Kindness

Kindness

Your kindness Lord runs to greet me in generous petals of fragrant compassion floating into my stingy spirit, dances in the abyss of my selfishness, raises up my bankrupt soul, gives light to my nearsighted heart opening veins of sympathy in an avalanche of mercy for hungry children gazing at empty cupboard shelves, for the new Lazarus, shivering in tatters, begging at the city gates for food, feeding a faithful four footed companion on a rope leash first, waiting for a crust of kindness baked in empathy to fall in the doorway of a grocery store – no warm coat or bed only a pillow of cement or a park bench.  Your kindness blinds malevolence, deafens insolence, cripples violence in floods of gracious benevolence with tides of charity asking only make a difference with what you have – a can of soup, a piece of fruit, a word born on the tides of charity.  Your kindness to me shares the perfume of gratitude softly falling from your tongue beating back vanity and pride so I may chant the living lyric of your loving kindness, open gracious arms, recite a litany of glory in a cup of grace to thirsty pilgrims, poor or comfortable, traveling by my side with open eyes of generosity.

kindness builds love
 empathy heals hearts ~
  compassion’s cradle

Copyright © Sam Kauffman | Year Posted 2021

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Beata Agustin Date: 1/25/2022 10:03:00 PM Congrats! Thanks so much for sharing your heart through this dramatic monologue of yours earnestly expressed in your excellent poetic style. Indeed, thanks for your participation. God bless you. Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 1/26/2022 11:24:00 AM Beata, thank you for your placement and the opportunity to once again bring this poem forward into the light. Many thanks as well for sponsoring this contest. There are so many wonderful entries it truly is an honor to share the podium with them. Blessings dear sister in the Lord! friend!

Beata Agustin Date: 8/23/2021 3:42:00 AM Wow! Congrats! Thanks for sharing this kindness-experience of yours, expressed in your awesome poetic style. Thanks likewise for your uplifting comments, my dear sister in the Lord. God bless you. Login to Reply

Brian Sambourne Date: 8/22/2021 9:24:00 AM Your concluding Haiku, Sam is especially poignant + stirring. Congratulations on a fine win! Cheers, Brian Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 8/22/2021 9:41:00 AM Oh, thank you so much Brian. It was an experience to write on kindness as it solidified, brought into a clearer focus, heart and soul, mind and experiences of kindness - how it affects our daily lines often in the simplest of actions. Sending you cheers - a toast to kindness!

Beryl Edmonds Date: 8/21/2021 6:08:00 PM A brilliant Haibun Sam, your kindheartedness and faith shines through every word you’ve written. Congratulations on your win in Gina’s contest, it’s well deserved. Belle Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 8/22/2021 9:18:00 AM Hi Belle! Thank you so much! It was a humbling experience to be entrusted with these words. Now the challenge is to put them into practice! Your visit means so much as you are also a woman of kindness with shining faith. Filled with gratitude for your congratulations! Sending you blessings!

Regina Mcintosh Date: 8/21/2021 4:26:00 PM I love this so... amazing writing and your heart shows brilliantly, a light to all, God bless you always, And CONGRATS. Love, Gina Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 8/21/2021 5:47:00 PM Gina, I am deeply honored and humbled. It took me awhile to think out this theme but I am so grateful for the opportunity to write on Kindness. So grateful for your placement! Many thanks and much gratitude! Blessings and a hug. Love, Sam

Andrea Dietrich Date: 8/18/2021 12:33:00 PM I think you went ALL OUT with this one. I would not be surprised to see it at the top of the winners' list!! Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 8/21/2021 5:50:00 PM Thank you Andrea. You were right and I am blessed by your confidence. Took me awhile to start writing, but after I got started it just seemed to flow all on its own! Got a whole lot of heavenly help on this one! Blessings to you.

JCB Brul Date: 8/18/2021 9:37:00 AM The real essence of kindness is well-depicted in this brilliant piece! God is the real definition of Kindness..Best wishes. Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 8/18/2021 10:19:00 AM Thank you JCB! I wanted to blend the essence of kindness with real life experiences when God's kindness moved me to see with different eyes our tattered world. This was a wonderful theme all wrapped up in a word that is intrinsically motivating and always on the move. Kindness is active! So many ways to express kindness. I agree with you, God is the source and the mentor. Sending you blessings. Thanking you for your kindness.