Tag: day dreaming

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

periwinkle dreams

Tina Stewart Brakebill

periwinkle dreams

indigo tinted starlight

and violet skies   

blue and white sky with stars
Photo by Rafael Cerqueira on Pexels.com

As Linda tells us “It’s another prompt of the day! Today is your tenth prompt for Just Jot it January 2023, and it’s brought to you by Maggie. Thank you, Maggie! Please be sure to visit Maggie’s blog to read her post and say hello. And follow her while you’re there, if you’re not already.

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 10th 2023, is “periwinkle.” Use the word “periwinkle” any way you’d like. Have fun!

Visit Linda Hill’s JusJotJan challenge for more info and great writing. 

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

day dreaming delay: a tanka for our times

Tina Stewart Brakebill

day dreaming delay

mind caught in an endless loop

where thoughts are stolen

by fluctuating follies

echoing atrocities

pink clouds
Photo by Luis Quintero on Pexels.com

This (thinly veiled comment on my mind’s status today) contribution to Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday  challenge  (synonyms only-dreaming and thought subbed in for fancy and idea) was helped along by Putting My Feet in the Dirt’s wonderful phrase prompt: fluctuating follies.

Visit them both!

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

day dreaming

Tina Stewart Brakebill

reverie broken

memories wet on my cheek   

a dream in a tear

basket blur boy child
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Thanks to Putting My Feet in the Dirt and to Fandango for two great ideas that worked perfectly together.

Check out their sites for great writing and the rules of the game.

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Pondering Happiness

Tina Stewart Brakebill

happiness unfound
awake, we dream of the day
when dawn returns joy

yellow plush toy
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Questions that occur to me as I ponder happiness:

  • Can happiness be “unfound”? And if it can, does that mean it’s been lost or just remains unknown?
  • Is ignorance really bliss?
  • Is happy is as happy does?
  • And is there really such a thing as the Bluebird of Happiness?

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  • How do we quantify happiness? Will we know when we’ve reached peak happy?
  • Can we ever understand the path to happiness? Is it a result of tangible actions or just a function of brain chemistry?

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I can’t really answer my own questions but thanks to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie for challenging me to think about HAPPINESS  and to Sue’s Photo Challenge for leading me to the Bluebird of Happiness 🙂