@sunlit_prose
MIRTH
Making a home in the ridiculous / In the cracks of the serious, it blooms
PATH
Pebbled and uneven and known by heart / All the seasons visible in one long stretch
GIFT
Given freely, what you have becomes entirely more / In receiving well, you honor what the giver chose to give
DREAD
Darkness gathering before the storm / Racing pulse at nothing visible
CARE
Carried forward past the point of comfort / A love that does not ask what it will cost
TRAIN
Ten minutes on the platform in light drizzle / Rain having decided to make it interesting
JOY
Just the moment, nothing borrowed / Ordinary lifted into extraordinary
VIVID
Very here, inside the ringing present / In the color that you cannot look away from
POWER
Presence is the quietest and strongest force you own / Only what you nurture grows into something lasting
MOON
More than light it is a kind of company / Over the sleeping field it moves alone
GLEN
Green and narrow and further than it looks / Light only reaching the floor at midday
DREAM
Dwelling in the possible before the actual is how vision forms / Refusing to believe only what is visible keeps the future open
DAWN
Damp and cold before the colour comes / A silence between the last owl and the first lark
UNEASE
Underneath the laughter something stirs / Nothing quite lands where it used to be
LAKE
Light pooling in the still green water / A mirror for the clouds and passing birds
CURVE
Coming around the bend reveals what the straight road kept from you / Understanding that the path winds is not the same as accepting delay
SCENT
Soap still in the air after the shower / Coffee pulling you out of the dream
DREAM
Drifting past the half-open window / Rain falling in a room I know
RIVER
Rolling stones downstream without effort / Into the gorge the water falls and rises
FEAR
Freezing at the edge of the unknown / Every shadow seems to breathe
SNOW
Settling on the branches without hurry / Nobody asked for this white miracle
ALIVE
Approaching the day as though it is the only one is a practice / Living with the awareness of impermanence makes presence a priority
GROWTH
Give yourself the grace to be imperfect on the way / Real expansion hurts a little at the outer edges
MIND
Moving through what is hard with full awareness is a form of courage / In the quality of what you give attention to is the quality of your day
GLOW
Giving off a light you did not know was in you is not rare / Living long enough in darkness shows you what you carry
RIVER
Rolling stones downstream without effort / Into the gorge the water falls and rises
GRIEF
Gathering what the gone one left behind / Resting in the middle of loss
DESK
Done with the day and still sitting in the chair / Everything needed somewhere on this surface still
EASE
Ease is not the absence of effort but the alignment of it / A life lived in conflict with itself is the hardest life of all
FERN
Finding light in places light forgets / Every spore a small bet on the future
DUSK
Deepening between the trunks of pines / Under this light everything looks softer
HOPE
Hearts that hold the unconfirmed / Over every valley, a bridge appears
PRIDE
Petals of a self rebuilt from ash / Reclaiming what was once denied
DEW
Deep in the night it settled on the rose / Everything it touches it makes briefly new
UNEASE
Underneath the normal, something shifts / Nothing quite sits where it used to
LOVE
Longing that outlasts every season / Opening wide without a guarantee
WORTH
What you give the world is more than what you see / Only you can name the value of your own becoming
SMILE
Something ancient lives inside it / Moving freely across every language
GROVE
Gathering the light in its canopy / Roots intertwined below the soft needle floor
FOG
From the sea it climbs the cliffs at night / Once it settles the lighthouse earns its keep
REST
Returning to the quiet between the efforts is not abandonment, it is rhythm / Every great work had in it the spaces where the maker was not working
LUNCH
Last apple taken from the bowl at one o’clock / Under the stairs where the office has a corner
TENDER
Touching carefully the fragile thing / Every gesture soft and slow
REEF
Rising from the deep to meet the keel / Even in clear water hard to see until too late
GLEE
Getting lost inside the moment / Loose with joy and moving freely
SNOW
Settling on the branches without hurry / Nobody asked for this white miracle
MERCY
More than fairness, something like a gift / Every debt that could be held, released
PATH
Pavement still damp from the morning / A trail worn by the same shoes every day
WALK
Wet leaves pressed flat on the pavement / A neighbor waving from the garden
FREE
Finding freedom starts with seeing what has held you / Real release is not the absence of responsibility