Views in Verse: wellness

Saturday, 17 June 2017

Views in verse on 'such good sense'

Such Good Sense

Slow it down
Slow it down
And slow it down again
Find fifteen minutes
Of your gifted day
Prepare to be the best you can be

This just makes such good sense I feel

See the small things

Minute rhythms
Frost speckled on a spider’s web
Smell the new life
Feel a sunbeam
Kiss your children as they sleepily wake

Heartily drink in
The daytime rhythms
Talk to others in a measured voice
Walk easily and often
Into nearby bushland
For the reward of a bellbird's ‘tink’

Touch the rain
Savour the air
See the treetops respond to the breeze
A running brook
Watch its dutiful dance
Busy at play as it splashes about

Relax with warm friends
In a welcoming venue
Enjoy the open congenial themes
Be astute to their trials
As they witness life’s journey
Extend them the grace that they need

Sitting on a porch
In the early evening
Embrace the gentle changes shift
Hear your breath
Bath in sure moonlight
Recline with a well-trusted book

This just makes such good sense I feel

Views in Verse on - healing powers

Nature's Tryst

I left home at first light
Into the valley below
A weekly ritual that I just won't dismiss;
The morning is foggy
The rocks quicksilver
The bushland still dank from the mist.
A distant pond,
Now a brief hour behind,
Relish, the allure of nature’s tryst.

A water dragon unmoved
As I pass on by
No fear to cut and run;
As I leave the stream
And turn to the rocks
The fatigue can now outweigh the fun.
Yet, you somehow learn
To savor this too,
As the canopy peels back to welcome the sun.

As I shuffle along the escarpment
The ground still moist
The hillside still a little tricky;
Something now alerts
I glance on back
And what do I fleetingly see?
But a young fox,
Playfully tracking,
Me, from tree to tree.

I look up t'ward my cottage
A line of smoke trailing
A wisp against the grey sky;
Refreshingly tired
My pace quickens
As my hunger renders a smile.
The door now open,
Beckoning inwards,
Time, to kick back and rest for a-while.

From my desktop Grahame J Flynn Views in Verse