Faith – Journal Notes Blog

May 15, 2023

Daily writing prompt for May 15, 2023

Daily writing prompt

Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life.

Luci Shaw is an author who has “had a positive impact” on my life. I enjoy reading and rereading her books. You can view Luci Shaw’s page at Amazon and also visit her Official Website.

Her books have been with me through many life chapters, including grief and health challenges. She is an excellent writer, poetry and prose.

More meaning is added when I reread one of her books that helped me through a difficult time. I grow ever more grateful for my simple daily life.

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May 7, 2023

Sunday: Two Poems

sunrise
in early May
tiny bird sings
on the branch
of budding lilacs

reading
new used-books
this year’s leaves
begin to grow
on the birch tree

From my post, Short Poems for May, at Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin.

May 2, 2023

books to read

books to read
and reread
spring sunrise

April 25, 2023

Haiku – 3

last week in April
and music is new
bird songs

POEMS FROM OOSTBURG, WISCONSIN, April 2022

gulls lifting
from the sand
corn an inch tall

Published by SMILE, 2009 and 2010; BELL’S LETTERS POET, 2010.

looking at trees
I remember prayers
of friends

My haiku was published at Poems From Psalms And Nature, May 2012. Reprinted in the book, The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology (Including Senryu, Tanka, and Haiga). Edited by Robert Epstein (2020, Middle Island Press). Karl and I also reprinted the poem in Quiet Christmas Poetry (2014).