Categories:
focusing, body,
Form: Monoku
Focusing On Hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn-_xr3uCEQ
WHEN THE WORLD AT LARGE GIVES US LOUD SOUNDS AND OVERSTIMULI
OF NEWS AND DRAMA, WE NEED TO STOP AND RECENTER THE UNIVERSE,
INSIDE OF US . THE ONLY WAY TO DO THIS IS TO FIND REFUGE IN OUR LAIR ,
AND LIVE IN THE SANCTUARY OF OUR THOUGHTS FOR A LITTLE
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Categories:
focusing, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Focusing On Faith
Dubious fear-based feelings stomp through my country, dividing my countrymen. It saddens me, so I have to flee from the news. I prefer focusing on positivity and faith. It is difficult to inspire and instill hope when you are not consciously nurturing it. Believing in Jesus, expecting a miracle, ready to accept it every
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Categories:
focusing, faith,
Form: Haibun
Curtain Call
Maple trees on both sides of Nineteenth Street
closed down the evening sky.
In a slight uncovered slice a single star
was made to burn the brighter
by this focusing framework.
I wonder, were your drapes drawn not quite tight
to burn your beauty on the night?
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Categories:
focusing, assonance, metaphor, star, symbolism,
Form: Alliteration
Why Our Love Won'T Fly
When love gets buried in the sand
Looking around to see where this love will land
When your love has become so demanding
Everywhere it takes you you're left standing
Not able to signify how this love all got by
Why our love won't fly
Unable to certify the love you try to justify
One that is broken that no longer works
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Categories:
focusing, change, cheer up, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Negative Focusing?
Did God damn me?
Am I crazy?
Too often comes the fear
Which I will not hold dear!
Reality and Sanity
Hope they aren't but vanity!
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Categories:
focusing, faith
Form: I do not know?
Focusing On What?
Wanting badly or focusing on the past sadly
Trying to fill a void that might not exist
Life twists and turns are distractions
From what I unknowingly try to persist
A path that has had many dead ends
A heart that has had hopes crushed
With a twist of fate the road bends
Once untouchable, forced to blush
As I reach out again
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Categories:
focusing, life, loss, people,
Form: Free verse