Five Minute Friday: Slow

This is a poem written in five minutes flat, on the prompt “Slow” for the Five-Minute Friday linkup.

Slow is a breath of fresh air

after writing for days and days,

copying, pasting, editing, sending.

I open the front door

and step out into February sunshine

seventy degrees and breezy.

Slow is the stroll up the gravel drive

to the church cemetery

where I walk in a loop

around sleeping saints.

Slow is a wink of hope

when I catch a glimpse

of yellow shining bright

among dead leaves:

daffodils pushing through

so early

so welcome.

Slow is an envelope of peace

as I listen to the birds twittering

in the cedar trees

as I hear squirrels scuttering

over fallen branches

as I watch the hawk circle slowly

over us, seeing what I don’t notice.

But today I take notice

of the small things,

the tiny purple flowers

peering up cheerful

amid the gravel.

I just finished writing my third self-published book, The Fruitful Life, a study on the fruits of the spirit. I hope you’ll join me when it goes on sale March 5, 2017 and also in the online Bible study March 6 – 31, 2017.

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