Love Is...(2)

Love Is… (2)

…Like a rose. First it is a small seed. When it is planted and nurtured, love grows. Eventually blossoming into a beautiful flower.

…Like a blanket. Wrapped in your favourite one has a sense of warmth and security. Love warms the heart and secures the spirit.

…Meant to be shared. When love is shared it expands and deepens, becoming more expansive than the universe and deeper than the dark depths of the sea.

…Healing. When a heart is broken, love can mend the sorrow closing the wound like a seamstress sewing a torn dress. Love becomes the thread that binds the wounded soul.

…God. For he so loved the world that he sacrificed his only son to redeem us. Through that redemption we are saved. God showed the world how to love and now we can love and cherish our fellow humans.

…Sacrifice. Forfeiting our own life to save another is the ultimate form of love. Being willing to give all to help another person comes naturally when in love.

Love was given to us as a gift by our Lord and Saviour above. Cherish love and love will cherish you.

© Phil Renaud 2017

Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse

It is noon
The world is dark
How can this be?
Superstition abounds
Fear rise correspondingly
Chaos ensues

Then a glimmer
Hope returns
With the light

The moon and the sun
Have had their meeting
The darkness is over

Until we meet again in 2024

© Phil Renaud 2017
Photo courtesy of David Palmer

Perchance

Perchance

To sleep, perchance to dream

That is the question

Should we take the plunge

To fall into a dream world

Where things are not what they seem

Perchance do will you drive

Risking life and sanity

To travel from here to there

To be alive

Perchance will you eat

To sustain your life

To remain healthy and strong

Up on your feet

Perchance will you live your life

Living life to the fullest

Or is life full of maybes, perhaps,

Ifs, ands, buts

What would life be

If we never took a chance

Live life

And perchance something

Good may come your way

Easing your pain and strife

© Phil Renaud 2017

With inspiration from Shakespeare

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

Glary lights give the area

A surreal glow

Antiseptic aroma fills the air

Giving a sense of sterility

People scurry back and forth

Dressed in scrubs

Coughing and hacking

Noises fill the room

Casts, splints and slings

Adorn the waiters

Wheelchairs are a

Favourite mode of transport

These are the sights and sounds

Of a hospital waiting room

A dreary place

Filled with sick and ailing multitudes

A place I visit

All too often lately

© Phil Renaud 2017

The End

The End

Olive Ridley Turtle

Black Rhino

Leatherback Turtle

Indian Elephant

Vaquita

Indus River Dolphin

Orangutan

Narwhal

spEcies driven to oblivion

eXpiring on a daily basis

Total annihilation

our world Is a poorer place

when they are goNe

mostly Caused by man

This has got to stop

let us lIve in harmony

with Our fellow creature

Namaste

© Phil Renaud 2017

A proper acrostic first verse with an alternate acrostic second verse ☺