Did you know
the sun is always shining,
even if behind a cloud?
Frowns can be turned upside down
into a smile, just by remembering that.
There is no distance looking blue,
when we walk barefoot
in dew kissed grass that tickles our feet.
Call me Pollyanna, many do,
because I choose to believe
there is no top to any steeple
if I make up my mind to climb.
Be it with strong legs
or, at my age,
a little blusher, mascara,
a pen, and a plethora of words.
Written for Tuesday Poetics at dVerse, the virtual pub for poets around the globe. Today Sarah hosts and asks us to consider the poem November by Thomas Hood. One option in today’s prompt is to use a line from his poem and include it in our poem. I’ve chosen two lines from his poem: “No distance looking blue” and “No top to any steeple”. Image from Pixabay.com
lillian the home poet 
Positivity is needed in the world today.. thank you ❤
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Amen to that! PS: why isn’t it Alady???? 🙂
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I needed a little bit of positivity today, and this is delightful. Thank you.
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Always happy to provide positivity! 🙂
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A welcome little ditty, Lill! Today has been the first grey, overcast, wet, windy day when I didn’t want to leave the house. The lines that made me chuckle:
‘There is no distance looking blue,
when we walk barefoot
in dew kissed grass that tickles our feet.’
I too swear by mascara, a pen, and a plethora of words.
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Just getting to reading back to older posts now that I have two eyes and can finally see the print clearly and colors? Well the vibrancy of our world is amazing! AND the good silly news is today I went for my follow-up with the cataract surgeon, and as of tomorrow, I can wear eye make-up again! 🙂
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Good news, Lill!
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I think we need to remember that the sun shines behind the clouds…
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Amen to that!
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I like your steeple climb that reaches to the stars!
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🙂 Come climb with me!
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Yes! that would be great!!
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I think any babe that manages her plethora of verbiage as well as you do, Lillian, doesn’t need any makeup at all. Good stuff; thanks!
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JUST getting to reading comments on past posts….now that I’m seeing clearly with both eyes again! WOW! Cataract surgery is one procedure that really does turn the clock back on an aging process. I am back in a vibrant world – colors are amazing! And your comment, Ron, made me smile. I must say though, when the doc told me today that starting tomorrow, I can wear eye make-up again, I gave a whoop! It’s really the only make-up I wear….I’ve felt like a ghost these past two months! But…you are so so kind!
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just perfect 🙂
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So glad you enjoyed!
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Gorgeous, gorgeous write Lillian! 😍😍
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