Tag: #live

Life Mottos ©Dawn Minott |an Abecedarian, Mental Health Awareness

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry15 Comments

Accept you as you are
Believe in the good, do good

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
Do what you love, do you

Embrace the flaws
Find peace of mind

Give with no expectations
Happiness is fleeting, create joy

Invest in experiences, things are ephemeral
Jump around in bed some times, find your inner child

Kindness is life-changing, be a kind human
Love like you won’t be hurt, live like you will die

Make the space you occupy a better place
Nurture friendships, you’ll need support

Obstacles are opportunities for change, embrace them
Protect your mental health, self-care is NOT selfish

Quiet the noise, listen from within
Remember always, you’re imperfectly perfect and that’s OK!

Say yes to adventures—period!
Treat people with respect

Understand before you seek to be understood
Vulnerability is not weakness, welcome it

Worship God always, it will center you in this ever-changing world
eXpress your voice authentically, be not silenced

You’re beautifully and wonderfully created, know this
Zealously pursue every dream, take chances, it’s ok to fail

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Life Lived As Poetry©

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry8 Comments

From the source of spiritual cosmology
Conceived in rhythmic movements
Birthed through pulsing pushing
Punctuated by intermittent pain and joy


LIFE


Giving leaning into the ineffable
Obscured in allusions
Developed in plots
Composed in stanzas


LIFE LIVED


In fragmented syntax of challenges and victories
Linguistic coding lyrics of uninhibited joy with unimaginable sorrow
Alliteration of life’s idioms of transformation
Reciting poignant epigrams of wondrous elocution


LIFE LIVED IN


Meters to know and be known
Evolving through spiritual healing
Resolutely declaimed—live in the everlasting now
Climaxes in all that was created


LIFE LIVED IN POETRY

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I Wish You Enough© [with audio]

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry18 Comments 
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I wish you enough hope when all around you feels like sinking sand

I wish you enough love, given without compromise, received unconditionally

I wish you enough good in life to anchor you through the bad times

I wish you enough sunny days to help you appreciate the lessons in the rain

I wish you enough peace that calms you in the midst of life’s worst storms

I wish you enough blessings that you’ll have strength to live anew each day

I wish you enough trust in God that you relinquish the past with no regrets, live in the present like it’s a gift, and face the future with no fears

I wish you enough—God

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After-word: this piece was inspired by a post I recently saw on the platform formerly known as Facebook. It was written with this question in mind: What if you knew the moment when you get to say the last words to a loved one, what might you say? And contributing to Sadje’s “What Do You See” prompt—set to the image below.

Music credit: BGM healing Music

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Scary Decor©

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry10 Comments

Along a busy NY thoroughfare

As of out of nowhere they appear

Scary decor of grotesque flare

Beckoning visitors draw near if they dare

A day celebrating death, isn’t quite my affair

Nor boogeyman and ghosts evoking fear

But for the Word of the Day Challenge I’ll gladly share

A poem of words rhyming but not one to scare

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I literally bumped into these “scaries” on my way to the office this morning. They were placed on an unexpected part of a building which led all the more to the scare! And it so turns out Melanie’s Word of the Day Challenge is boogeyman so I figure why not whip up a rhymed poem. And voila! Here it is!

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Who’s In Your Corner? [with audio]

On By Dawn MinottIn Prose15 Comments
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Life is a fight. A good fight. We go through the extremes—the ascent of ups and the declivity of downs. Though we don’t choose what we go through in life, we can choose how we go through it and who we go through it with.

One thing fighters have is a corner—fighters get support—they don’t fight alone.

We are not meant to be alone.

So, who are you going through life with?

You need others to help you, and you need to help others.

Who is in your corner?

Your “corner” is your support system. And your support system is built on relationships.

Yes it’s a risk. Relationships are messy. They’re complicated. You could get hurt. But, you can minimize the risk by building a support system that is solid.

What does a solid support system look like? It’s one that is:

  • Based on the right or a common structure. What brought you together (sorority, same age kids)? Are you likeminded? Do you have common values and principles?
  • Formed before your crisis.
  • Built on honesty. Can you be vulnerable and not feel judged? Can you be you?
  • Centered on TRUST. Distinguish between who’s in your circle versus who’s in your corner. Can and will they keep you accountable?
  • Built around fellowship. How can one know how to support you or celebrate you if you don’t share? Bring your life into the light. However, be selective. With the right people you’ll find fellowship.
Your support system is a beautiful gift.
Cherish it.
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Contributing to Fandango’s One Word Challenge, extreme; and Sheryl’s Your Daily Word Prompt, declivity.

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Snappy One Liners #7: Choices

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry7 Comments

Doing something a little different this week. No poetry. No prose. Instead I’ll be posting a series of snappy one-liners that are as good as a mouthful like:

“You make choices; choices make you”.

…in other words:

“The choices you make, make you”.

You may also like previous posts in the series: #1Change, #2Be YOUniquely you, #3Know You, #4New Day New Way, #5Right Love, #6Stand & Fight

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Snappy One Liners #4: New Day New Way

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry5 Comments

Doing something a little different this week. No poetry. No prose. Instead I’ll be posting a series of snappy one-liners that are as good as a mouthful like:

Life’s too short not to live a new day in a different way.

You may also like previous posts in the series: #1Change, #2Be YOUniquely you, #3Know You

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The Choice©

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry7 Comments

Naked you came into this world

And naked you will be leaving

When your time has expired

Nothing can hold life, escaping

Why not love with reckless abandon

In the time while heart’s still beating

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Past: 6 Word Story

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry4 Comments

Life hijacked by past is unfulfilled

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Written for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. The word is “past.” Check out her blog for the rules and join in the fun.

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2020: Last Will and Testament ©Dawn Minott

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry6 Comments

Before-word: 2020! What a year it’s been?! It started out as merry and promising as any other year. Sure, there were some rumblings about a “novel virus” but nothing to disrupt partying, merrymaking, living, working, schooling. Or so we thought. As the year is about to come to an end, as is often the case, I’m in a reflective mood—recalling the lessons/blessings, the ups/downs, the losses/gains. Imagine attributing human characteristics to this tumultuous year, what would you say about it? I’d say: “2020: The Last Will & Testament”.

I, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, familiarly known to all people as 2020
Having endured a painful long battle with the novel corona virus
And suffered from multiple heart attacks caused by global suffering and dying
Realizing that on the 31st day of December
The end of my life will be signaled with one final exhale
Pressed out by the rhythmic predictable unchanging passing of time
Have therefore, with urgency, commissioned the writing of my last will and testament

I, 2020, was born to parents 2018 and 2019
People of every nation celebrated the eve of my birth
Some with prayers and others with merriment
For none knew what I had in store

In the months of my infancy hope abounded
Resolutions made to stop doing this and start doing that
In the months of my childhood and the unfolding of my adulthood
A virus unleashed sickness, death and fear everywhere
Resolutions soon forgotten, newness soon faded

But, nothing is ever really new

For—what has been— is what will be
And —what is—has been already in the ages before us
And like those before me and those after me, time will cease
For death will always impose his final goodbye

To you I have no things to leave
For property or material things I do not accumulate
To my successor—2021—I hereby appoint 12 months of 365 days

I give, devise and bequeath in equal shares to you TIME

Time for LIFE, live fully in each moment
Time for PEACE, may it not be disrupted
Time for FAITH, may it not falter
Time for HOPE, may it not fade
Time for JOY, may it not cease
Time for LOVE, may it not die
Time for LIFE, lived fully for eternity

In Witness Whereof,

I hereby subscribe my name to this Last Will and Testament as of the date of my death set forth below—

NAME: 2020

DEATH DATE: 31st December

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