L is for LACK OF MOTION #AtoZ Poetry

April #AtoZChallenge and #PoetryMonth

 

Three goals I had in mind while writing my collection of linked poetry:

1. To celebrate my appreciation of life

2. To experience the process of writing linked poetry, a form of Japanese renshi

3. To give thanks for and better appreciate a life well-lived.

 

The flowers are a colorful bonus for the #AtoZChallenge

 

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L is for Lack of Motion and Lilacs
 

 

 

 

LACK OF MOTION 

Lack of motion

Limited sight

Slow breathing

 

Diminished thought

Absence of concern

Exhalation of relief

 

All this and more

As one accepts release

Falling gradually

or fast

Time and again

With ever increasing pleasure

 

Into nightly blessed sleep.

 

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Just reading the words makes me sleepy. I've never suffered from insomnia so it is easy to take a good night's sleep for granted, although a scheduled talk next morning will have me tossing and turning through the night. What keeps you awake?

 

We Are The World #WATWIC Promoting Positive News

We Are The World Blogfest aims at promoting positive news.

 

Here is a quick checklist of guidelines:

Keep your post to below 500 words, as much as possible

All we ask is you link to a human news story on your blog on the last Friday of each month,

one that shows love, humanity, and brotherhood.

Join us on the last Friday of each month in sharing news.

 

Check out Michelle Wallace's site for full information about her vision,

her fabulous co-hosts, and the blog hop list of participants where you can sign up: http://www.writer-in-transit.co.za/we-are-the-world-blogfest/

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My link for April is to a human news story that tells about how some ties-that-bind between new friends last for a lifetime.

When I write my mystery novels, I do extensive research for the settings, on-site whenever possible. For scenes set in Boston, I researched everything from the history of Faneuil Hall to the menu of Cheers Bar and the swans in the Public Gardens near Boston Common. On-line research extended to young patients at Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic.

Excerpts from current, heart-warming news stories always catch my eye. This is one of them.  

“It was a huge source of comfort for both of us to know that

someone else understood what we each were going through,”

April 07, 2017

Some connections can never be broken. Jimmy Fund Facebook re-connects two cancer patients 13 years later. more ›  

Link to full story:

http://blog.jimmyfund.org/2017/04/jimmy-fund-facebook-re-connects-two-cancer-patients-13-years-later/?_ga=1.171038496.1293744457.1459373104

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The Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk is September 24, 2017

http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1164089