Thursday 31 August 2017

Love Is...(2)




Love Is… (2)
…Like a rose. First it is a small seed. When it is planted and nurtured, love grows. Eventually blossoming into a beautiful flower.

…Like a blanket. Wrapped in your favourite one has a sense of warmth and security. Love warms the heart and secures the spirit.

…Meant to be shared. When love is shared it expands and deepens, becoming more expansive than the universe and deeper than the dark depths of the sea.

…Healing. When a heart is broken, love can mend the sorrow closing the wound like a seamstress sewing a torn dress. Love becomes the thread that binds the wounded soul.

…God. For he so loved the world that he sacrificed his only son to redeem us. Through that redemption we are saved. God showed the world how to love and now we can love and cherish our fellow humans.

…Sacrifice. Forfeiting our own life to save another is the ultimate form of love. Being willing to give all to help another person comes naturally when in love.

Love was given to us as a gift by our Lord and Saviour above. Cherish love and love will cherish you.


© Phil Renaud 2017

Tuesday 29 August 2017

Solar Eclipse



Solar Eclipse

It is noon
The world is dark
How can this be?
Superstition abounds
Fear rise correspondingly
Chaos ensues

Then a glimmer
Hope returns
With the light

The moon and the sun
Have had their meeting
The darkness is over

Until we meet again in 2024

© Phil Renaud 2017
Photo courtesy of David Palmer

Perchance


Perchance

To sleep, perchance to dream
That is the question
Should we take the plunge
To fall into a dream world
Where things are not what they seem

Perchance do will you drive
Risking life and sanity
To travel from here to there
To be alive

Perchance will you eat
To sustain your life
To remain healthy and strong
Up on your feet

Perchance will you live your life
Living life to the fullest
Or is life full of maybes, perhaps,
Ifs, ands, buts
What would life be
If we never took a chance

Live life
And perchance something
Good may come your way
Easing your pain and strife

© Phil Renaud 2017
With inspiration from Shakespeare

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

Glary lights give the area
A surreal glow
Antiseptic aroma fills the air
Giving a sense of sterility
People scurry back and forth
Dressed in scrubs

Coughing and hacking
Noises fill the room
Casts, splints and slings
Adorn the waiters
Wheelchairs are a
Favourite mode of transport

These are the sights and sounds
Of a hospital waiting room
A dreary place
Filled with sick and ailing multitudes

A place I visit
All too often lately


© Phil Renaud 2017

Tuesday 22 August 2017

The End

The End
Olive Ridley Turtle
Black Rhino
Leatherback Turtle
Indian Elephant
Vaquita
Indus River Dolphin
Orangutan
Narwhal

spEcies driven to oblivion
eXpiring on a daily basis
Total annihilation
our world Is a poorer place
when they are goNe
mostly Caused by man
This has got to stop
let us lIve in harmony
with Our fellow creature
Namaste



© Phil Renaud 2017

A proper acrostic first verse with an alternate acrostic second verse ☺