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Living Life Poetically: 2020
2020 has definitely been a challenging year for many of us. Through it, we may have felt pain, sadness, loss, and loneliness in a way we’ve never felt before. But coming to this moment with the year at a close means we somehow managed to push through it all. We…
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Living Life Poetically: Time and Essence
You’ve probably heard the saying, “Time is of the essence.” The saying is actually legal jargon, originating from contract law. A Time is of the essence clause would appear in an agreement between two parties when something needs to be done in a timely matter and any delay could have…
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Living Life Poetically: Choose Light
“Choose Light” is about having empathy, self-awareness, and self-education. If you’ve been keeping up with current events, then the poem needs no further introduction. Current events (sparked in the U.S.) provide context for the poem. However, the poem’s message is timeless. Therefore, after reading it with current events in mind,…
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“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the anniversaries of the heart.”
This quote by the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is actually the first three lines of his poem ‘Holiday.’ To read the full poem, click here. The quote, and poem, is about memories. It’s about the memories we have not just about things and places, but also people after they’re gone.…
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“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today.”
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.”
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Living Life Poetically: Sadness Gone
The poem, “Sadness Gone,” has a unique form. Each stanza has three lines that follow the pattern of five, seven, five. Meaning, the first and third lines have five syllables while the middle line has seven. This form is considered a haiku, which is a form of traditional Japanese poetry.…
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Living Life Poetically: If Only
This poem is fairly short compared to the others. And the introduction to it will be short as well. “If Only” explores a simple question. What if we could turn back the clock after a tragedy? There’s always that one thing that changes everything. So what if we could just…
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Living Life Poetically: The Son Will Shine
In case you’re wondering, that is not a typo. The poem, “The Son Will Shine,” is my attempt to play on the words “sun” and “son”. I can go into more detail on this; however, I don’t want to give away too much of what this poem is about. So…
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Living Life Poetically: The Unexplained
In life, there are a lot of questions. Often, there are more questions than answers. That’s completely normal. There are questions with answers you can lookup. Then, there are scientific questions you can look up but with limited or no answer. Meanwhile, there are questions you have to ask others.…
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Living Life Poetically: The Hope Factor
The poem, The Hope Factor, is about how our future can seem so bleak without some element of hope. But sometimes hope isn’t a conscious thought. Sometimes we take it for granted–not realizing it’s there within us. It’s only when it’s gone or lacking that we appreciate it, and we…
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Living Life Poetically: Moments in Time
Whether you took Philosophy in college or not, you’ve probably heard the much-debated question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound? Well, here’s another philosophical question for you to ponder: Is there such a thing as time without…
