My New Year’s Resolution for 2022, besides being happy and grateful each day, is to send out my Poems of the Month early enough in the month that you have time to read and enjoy them sometime before the next month begins.

So, here goes with January 2022’s offering... It’s called “Vision,” a subject about which I am deeply enamored. It was the first new poem I wrote for the Advent Season 2021!

With Vision, goals get accomplished, and life moves along at the pace you’ve set for yourselves, and you’re generally a happier person… Lots of Benefits!

I hope you enjoy this offering…

VISION

Sight is what your eyes produce
And vision is sourced from the heart.
So, never let what your eyes can see
Affect your vision. Know them apart.

Vision is more than seeing what can be…
It’s an appeal to your better qualities.
It’s a call to be something more than you are…
An opportunity to reach your potentialities.

Vision with action can change the world!
This life is your one chance to reach your goal!
Don’t let fear or doubt keep you from accomplishing;
Keep moving forward… you are in control.

There’s a Japanese proverb that puts a spin
On the subject of vision… here I share:
“Vision without action is daydreaming;
Action without vision is a nightmare!”

Without vision for your future you’ll return to your past.
Your reality will be determined by outdated perceptions.
Oh, and always chase your vision, not the money…
Money will follow, with few exceptions.

This month’s poem, called “At Home,” strikes a chord with me, and I hope it will strike one with you, too. Celebrating the holidays with loved ones is always the preferred choice, but sometimes things come up that prevent it from happening.

The poem “At Home” is from a collection of Advent Poetry 2021 (that’s right, hot-off-the-press!). It’s especially appropriate, I think, fort this year, for many reasons, not the least of which is the need for many of us to make “home” wherever we are.

So, sit back and enjoy what is real for you at the moment. It’s what you have! And… relax, it’s yours to enjoy.

Happy End of 2021… Look forward to 2022!!!

AT HOME
(There’s no place like it… )

A house is made of brick and mortar, but
A home is made by the people who live there.
Home is where love resides and memories are created;
Friends are always welcome and family is forever.

Benjamin Franklin commented, “A house is not a home unless
It contains food and fire for the body and the mind.’
Our homes should inspire us to go out into the world
And do great things that are honest and kind.

We each carry our homes within us,
Which enables us to fly through the air.
It’s not about finding a home, so much,
As finding yourself… then “being at home” there.

The ache for home lives in all of us,
Where we can go as we are… no concealing.
Home is where you hang your heart…
Home may not be a place, but a feeling.

It’s November, 2021 — Gratitude Month…

… and gratitude is one of my very favorite subjects about which to write.

I’ve lost count of the number of poems I’ve written over the years on the subject of gratitude… but obviously, it is important to me and on my mind a lot. I have found, in my life, that when I am feeling gratitude there is no room for any of the negative things that pop up now and then.

Buddha’s wisdom on the subject of gratitude goes like this (I love it):

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot
today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a
little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least
we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.”

(We can always find a target for our gratitude!)

GRATITUDE

A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles…
You shift to a higher frequency and attract better things.
You give joy and laughter to all of those around you.
Communication is accomplished along loving heartstrings.

With gratitude in your heart there’s more beauty to see.
Opening your eyes enhances your gratitude practice.
Be thankful for everything that happens in your life…
It’s all your experience! It’s your very own process.

Each day you live, be looking for the good.
Praise it, appreciate it… practice being grateful.
Make it your daily commitment and you’ll be in awe
Of what happens in your life: joys by the roomful.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in your heart,
And not in your busy mind at all.
An “attitude of gratitude” will ease your path.
It will help you to survive any storm or squall.

There’ll be moments, of course, when your gratitude wears thin,
And it’s rekindled by another on the spot.
They’ve lit the flame within you to go another turn.
Be GRATEFUL when things are going well.
Be GRACEFUL when they are not.