On a Saturday we may sink grateful into slumber, savour a siesta, shop, or see a movie, seek a sport to pursue, or pass a moment or two in reflection.
It can be a pause in pursuing and an opportunity for Simply Being, a giving over to Sabbath.
Today’s #poetryforthesoul offering is suitably small and minimal as energy is low and rest becomes essential.
Not much to tax the eyes or brain.
Nothing deep or heavy.
Haiku
Empty womb-coiled shell ~ a snail trail leaking afresh ~ flowing like my tears
Blustery autumn ~ wind tears at the dew-sodden ~ velvet green-laked grass
As bulbs lie dormant ~ we sit low in dark places ~ with expectancy
‘Poetic flame’
Sorrow stirs the
sleepy embers
of poetic flame
encircling dampened
recesses of your
heart
curling with gentle
tread
upon your sighs
where deepest pain
lies
a tender fellow of
your deepest powers
your deepest love
in darkest hours
©JoyLenton2013
Poetry Joy 
Hi Joy
This is short, sweet and very beautiful. I love your description of the snail!
Blessings XX
Mia
Thank you, Mia! Short and sweet is apt. I’m delighted these tiny snippets brought you pleasure! Blessings 🙂 xx
This is lovely, Joy. I like the Haiku. I wrote a few pieces a while back. Pray that you get rest and refreshment.
Thanks, Joan! I’m so pleased you like the haiku. It’s a concentrated art form that is really challenging at times. These were of the ‘here’s one I made earlier’ variety, so there was no real brain power involved! I’d love to read yours. I am trying to rest more today and be ready for the week ahead. Your prayers are truly welcome and greatly appreciated. 🙂 x
Thanks Joy. I’ll share it sometime. I did a set of four for a writing class. Each was seasonal. My favorite was the winter one, but I’ll share the autumn one on my blog. Maybe next week for my Tranquil Sundays post.
This is really touching to my heart “deepest love in darkest hours”, oh how it is so very true,
we will find love – God’s love still with us in those darkest hours, all we need to do is curl up and know he has us safe in His care. Extremely touching verse!
Thank you, Maxine! I love what you have seen in these few lines. Yes, we can rest assured of God’s love in our darkest hours. He keeps us safe always. Blessings 🙂 x
Joy,
What you find small and minimal may be the sip of water someone desperately needs, the crust of bread that will make all the difference in the world. I don’t think you’re capable of writing anything small.
Anne, you do me a great honour with your beautiful, poetic and encouraging words! Quite often my soul longs to write light, bright and encouraging rather than deep and emotional. But I tend to go with the flow of where I am myself, in the hope it will reach and speak to another who may be in similar circumstances.
Joy,
If you wrote light with a heavy heart it would still come through heavy. We have to write that which we feel.
I know what you mean, Anne! Only a light, free spirit can truly write from a place of brightness. A heavy-weighted one will always tend to feel deep/stodgy in the way words are expressed! There is great wisdom in these words you say, “We have to write that which we feel”. This is so true; although we are aware that our lives can change or we can have an altered perspective which brings new feelings with it. Thank you 🙂 xx