My choices are simple
I awaken to the sound
Of my breathing
And rise to
The song of the birds.
I step in time with the beat
Of my heart
Into sunlight.
Beside me:
Wildflowers
Engaged in the ritual
Of waking to the light
Moving with light
Growing with light
To become the color
And perfume
Of here and now.
Birds sing.
Birds fly.
I breathe.
I walk.
It is all breath and pulse,
All choice.
One Single Impression
35 Comments
All true.. all beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI like the simplicity of your choices and certainly the way you express this simplicity....a place for everything and everything in it's place.
ReplyDeletelovely poem, we are one or can be-nature and man
ReplyDeletebeautiful words!
ReplyDelete"To become the color
ReplyDeleteAnd perfume
Of here and now."
I wish I were like a wildflower.
Thank you for this lovely poem.
Beautiful thoughts and words to begin my day, Sandy! I love the simplicity of the words, the depth of the meaning. Enjoy the day!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
Simple choices can make life really beautiful...and a Beautiful poem to say that, Sandy :)
ReplyDeletewishes,
devika
The last line sums it all beautifully. This poem left me with the feeling "Everything is simple and beautiful."
ReplyDeleteSandy, this was wonderful.
Came over from Myrna's. Congratulations on the award!
Joy always,
Susan
Beautiful words of inspiration. Much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI really like the rhythm of this poem, very much like the rhythm of breath or the pulse. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful one as usual
ReplyDeleteYour choices are well made.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the truth. We are our choices for the most part.
ReplyDeleteI like a story I recently hear. An elderly gentleman was moving into a very small apartment. The family told him about the color of the walls and the furniture. He said ,"I like it, I will be happy there." How do you know that his family asked. You haven't seen it yet. He said "I've decided to be happy there.
ReplyDeleteAn Arkies Musings
Your choice of words and images is excellent.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of first breath and pulse of each day being part of personal choice!
ReplyDeleteSimple choices, simply beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeing alive and how to live it. It is a choice too. I find that and so much more in your verse.
ReplyDeleteode to shoes
very simple take, Sandy, yet ur simplicity holds more truth and beauty than any big words would give! :)
ReplyDeleteMy OSI
Great words - as always.
ReplyDeleteSimple choice for truth is simple.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful words.
Sandy Yesterday, I was reading This Dancing Ground of Sky by Peggy Pond Church and this poem reminded me of One Single Impression: Choices
ReplyDeleteALAS
Alas, my love I grow older.
The nights seem colder.
Morning no longer
sings me awake as it used to
with birds or the sound of fish leaping.
The nets that I cast for my dreams are torn and too heavy
to lift out of the draining water.
Day breaks and I lie in my bed
like a chick
feeling my warmth curved
close as a shell around me.
There is frost on the window.
Ice crystals live and
growing into forests.
The sun will rise soon and melt them.
The slow fires that burn in my blood
even while I sleep, and keep it moving,
do not warm me as well as they used to.
The stars seem colder.
I do not dream of love anymore,
only sometimes of death in deep waters.
What will it seem like, I wonder, not to waken?
The world will go on, I know--
summer and winter,
morning and evening,
birds coming back in spring,
the rivers carving valleys
and filling them up again,
seas rising and falling.
But what when the eye does not wake
to see or the heart to sing it?
How I begrudge the body's slow death;
would rather be seized and eaten
by an eagle or a sharp fish
than by this inward worming.
Must we live at the last in a house with dirty windows
and doors that will not open,
the chimneys clogged and the hearthfire grown too sluggish
to make real flames anymore?
To desire nothing anymore
except sleep?
If one could only spin some kind of a cocoon
and then wait mindless
as a caterpillar that winters on a bare branch.
1963
This poem might have followed your poem....many years later.
You really choose so well.. make it all so simple Sandy..its delight reading you..
ReplyDeletespiritual and beautiful words!
ReplyDelete... sigh .. what a joy for the senses. Please have a wonderful start into the new week.
ReplyDeletedaily athens
Wonderfully written post! =)
ReplyDelete-Weasel
So beautiful Sandy!!! Your words always touch my heart! Thanks
ReplyDeleteHugs
SueAnn
yes, it is all a wonderful choice, lovely piece Sandy.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy this nice poem with its attractive images!
ReplyDeleteyup it all comes down to breath and pulse...and I choose them both! Beautiful poem Sandy- have a lovely week!
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful choices...to live and love the simplicity of life and enjoy the things around you. Nicely written Sandy.
ReplyDeleteSimply beautiful choices in life Sandy, I loved it! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is in simple things that we enjoy life the most, right?
Then I am with you here in your poem!
Wish it were always that simple for me. But, I suppose, that in itself is a choice.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sandy.
A very thought provoking little poem you have Sandy. For instance I really don't like to think about whether or not I should breathe. But I could choose not to. Brrr!
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Simple but beautiful choice made the life more meaningful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being here.