Musings Of A Sister

Several years ago, my brother collected every piece of poetry I had ever written and created a precious keepsake book entitled, "Musings Of A Sister". This place serves as a bookshelf for every train of thought, life experience, and collection of poems that have come after that book.

Wednesday, March 08, 2017

This Is Me

›
This is me. Small child, sitting on Grandma’s knee as she sang “hide it under a bushel.” No way I’d be telling stories about it now; ...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Nov. 28 "Humble and Kind"

›
My grandfather would have been 82 today. When he passed away in April, I tried to gather my thoughts and share them in a way that would...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Love Well

›
Love is like the deepest well. Neighbors become a human chain, linking arms with one another just to reach the water  to draw a pale...
Friday, July 15, 2016

These Are The Lenses

›
Do we see the same things? As if someone took off their glasses and said, “ These, these are the lenses  that we all shall use.” Give...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

That Awful Crown

›
On the prowl with the intent to destroy, he takes my confidence; oh, how he robs me of my joy. Fully aware of how to bring me down, a pa...
Monday, October 12, 2015

I Wish Sometimes

›
I wish sometimes that I could have it all figured out. I wish I could say that I march forward everyday and that I never doubt. To be real...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

When It Seems The World Screams

›
By what standard shall we abide? In who's trust can we confide? When it seems the world screams- "The sky is falling!", ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

For The Love: Review

›
This is not a poem. This space usually serves as a place for poetry, so I feel the need to give a disclaimer to my two followers and ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Be Where You Are. Feel What You Feel.

›
Be where you are. Feel what you feel. Where you are is not an illusion, and what you feel is quite real. Poised and stoic, it's th...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Rooted in Fear, the Lies We Hear

›
How can we be effective in a world that's so infected? Plagued with the worst case of animosity, are we too self righteous to see what...
Monday, December 22, 2014

For What it's Worth

›
Common fallacy, you see what you want to see. Call it disillusionment, but is it permanent, this anger burning up inside your soul? Get...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Rejection of "The Self"

›
I tried to write my own story: All the characters defined, A perfect setting, a happy ending All wrapped up and tied with a bow. Isn...
1 comment:
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Far From Lackluster

›
Sometimes it takes some space to see the worth in the mundane: the seemingly lackluster day to day deeds that evoke a cringe, or a moan,...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Time Travel

›
The other day I was pondering the notion of time machines... Someone's unrealistic devotion to be set into motion to a time other than ...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

As Busy As You Choose To Be

›
You're as busy as you choose to be; You're as free as you'll allow, pleading to buy more time, when the time is now. Isn...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Never Forsaken

›
He said, "never forsaken" and, yet, I've taken for granted the very things that He has handed me. Single-handedly, reachi...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

As I Am

›
Quick to speak; quick to throw out my opinion on matters of life and strife and someone else’s hurting. Flirting with the idea that wh...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

Walls Will Fall

›
Walls will fall like Jericho, a great crash and crumble, as eyes glance upward and the proud turn humble. Marching to the beat of a new d...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Some Things Are Borrowed and Some Things Are Bought

›
Borrowed words and borrowed thoughts to express the way you feel only leave you borrowing time as you question what is real. In all sin...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Resilience

›
It's the natural inclination of a weak and wounded nation to put up a fight when the present times seem pressing and the very thing wo...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.