The Small Quiet Voice

Poetry… by the brook ♡
Listen…
Do you hear that small quiet voice?
It’s muffled by fear, though she means no harm. She wants to protect you, keep you safe from harm.
She has become your filter for all that you see. She reminds you to play it safe, don’t be too carefree.
But that small, quiet voice is calling to you. Lean in closer and open your heart.
It’s your spirit that’s been with you right from the very start.
Its message is simple, somehow fear, she’s made it so complex.
The ripples are there to nudge you, not to make life so perplexed.
There is joy in the unknowing because a journey is underway.
Where love and trust will guide you to your purpose that’s not so far away.
It’s really just that simple, but you must hush the filtered voice.
Just calm your breath and get real still… then smile and rejoice. ♡
MLPinckney♡
Poetry & Pictures… By the brook

Harmony of Two Souls

Harmony of Two Souls~

The porch swing gently glided to and fro

The fireflies began their dance among the darkening sky

Their lips had not yet met, nor had their hands ever touched

But their souls whispered to one another, longing to reacquaint

Unknowingly he breathed life into her secrets

Unknowingly she exposed his heart

The night grew darker, their eyes grew heavy, they bid the swing adieu

Come again….. called the swing

The darkened sky
The dancing fireflies
The gentle to and fro of the swing

Their hands met
Their vision unclouded
Their truths set free
Their worlds forever changed
Infused with grace

The unveiling of two souls awakening into a new world

MLara Brown~

In a Moment

In a moment….
In a moment, life is beautiful and then it’s not.
In a moment, your heart is open and free and then it’s crumbled into a hundred pieces.
In a moment, you feel proud and accomplished, then ashamed.
In a moment, you are sure-footed full of motivation, then lost without direction.
In a moment, you trust, then you are filled with deception.
In a moment, you feel God’s grace and pure peace, then wrath and despair.
In a moment, someone is right there, then they’re not.
In a moment, every moment you find yourself in your triumphs and failures, standing tall and falling on your face. Then in a moment, you know what you know. You know your truth and in that moment, you know you are truly ok.
~ M Lara Brown

Shadows~

I am the sum of all that has passed through me, no more, no less.

My past shadows come to linger with my present; I tell them to go.

I am no longer those things that have brought me here.

They are only a part of who I am, pieces of my past, fractions of my life.

Places, people, points in time, like an old friend or lover that once walked by my soul.

Intimately, each piece of my past makes peace with my present, then crawls back into the shadow.

I am the sum of all that has passed through me, no more, no less.
~M Lara Brown