26 Monday Mar 2018
Posted in Poetry
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BooknVolume, Harmony, Hope, Inspiration, Light, Poem, poetry, Poetry Blog, spirituality, Truth, Unity, ~Morgan~
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Shards of Light,
Like Fragments of Hope,
Of Truth,
Reach across the distances between us,
Stretching to Touch each Heart,
Spreading their Unifying Grasp
Into the pallor of this bleak world,
Ever Offering
Far More than we Shall Ever Grasp.
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~Morgan~
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Beautiful Original Photograph by Dusty Demerson
28 Sunday Jan 2018
Posted in Thankfulness Journal Challenge
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Blessings, BnV, BooknVolume, Daily Meditation, Gratitude Journal, Inspiration, Meditative Thinking, Serenity, spirituality, Tranquility, Unity, ~Morgan~
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For the Stillness that Transcends time and place,
Caressing the Soul with Tranquility beyond our understanding
Mending the fractures that seek to isolate
and Unifying with Breathless Serenity,
Thank You.
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Day 44 of 365 of the Daily Thankfulness Journal Challenge
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Beautiful photograph found on Pinterest. Credit Gratefully Acknowledged to the original photographer. Thank You~
27 Saturday Jan 2018
Posted in Thankfulness Journal Challenge
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Blessings, BnV, BooknVolume, Daily Meditation, Gratitude Journal, Harmony, Inspiration, Meditative Thinking, spirituality, Thankfulness, Unity, ~Morgan~
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Beat, O My Heart,
In Perfect Harmony with All Living Things,
And Sing, My Soul,
With Joyous Songs and Rhymes;
That in my Delight,
This Beauty may Speak
and Fill the Yearning
of the meek and brokenhearted.
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Day 43 of 365 of the Daily Thankfulness Journal Challenge
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~Morgan~
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Exquisite Photography by Katerina Plotnikova
30 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted in Just Me Musing
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Acting, BnV, BooknVolume, Communication, Empathy, Expression, Harmony, Inspiration, relationships, Telepathy, Unity, words, Writing, ~Morgan~
Symbiosis is defined as the living together of two dissimilar organisms in more or less intimate association or close union OR the intimate dwelling together of two dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Following this logic (and I freely confess, logic is not my characteristic realm, but humour me if you will…)
The Writer is the expression of all that thought can encompass, filled with mercurial logic, enigmatic philosophies and depths of emotion, but who is limited to communicate these notions through words alone, either provocative or faint; painting them upon a blank and impassive canvas and, in consequence of this action, turning the vastness of that barren expanse into the hallowed ground upon which strides the Actor.
The Actor is the expression of all that words relate; a versatile coalescence of emotion, intensity, purpose, passion, and the terrifying calm of a silent stare; the voice of otherwise silent pawns awaiting articulation; the instrument through which the pen itself speaks to the listener’s ear.
Are these twain one symbiotic spirit conjoined in truth? Creativity locked in an inexorable union; one fully reliant upon the other; neither able to fulfill their true function exclusive of the other; neither capable of savouring the purest form of bliss in the absence of the other?
Are they to be likened to the Telepath and the Empath, forever joined, yet never joining? If there were no written words to speak, what soliloquy might the Actor enact? If there was no Actor to infuse each word with life, to engender the sentiments found in the heart and soul of the Writer, how then might these words be perceived?
The Writer is the Telepath, hearing the words that long to be spoken; words that The Actor longs to portray. Hearing these unspoken longings longing to be spoken, The Writer shapes complications of guise and purgatories of ruse; conjures dichotomy of place and time, weaves tapestries out of characters and charisma into which The Actor may immerse himself.
The Actor, then, is the Empath, sensing the longings longing to be expressed; filling each aloof word set upon the cold page with emotion; communicating through sight and sound all The Writer endeavors to express; bridging the gap between the black and white, and the heart-wrenching, spirit-tugging, fury-filled, gentle guise and sweet seduction of those penned pawns; transforming them into the condition that instills tears and sighs, laughter, anger and perfect dread!
Therefore, are the two Truly One? The Actor and Writer, The Empath and The Telepath, One Interdependent Creative Desire born out of the inescapable longing of the Heart, of the Spirit, to Express and to be Understood?
Does The Actor long to Enact what The Writer writes in order to portray what the Empath might otherwise never say? Does the Writer long to write what it is The Actor can portray so that The Telepath might see and hear and feel what it is that The Writer cannot enact alone?
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~Morgan~
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Original Free Public Domain Image modified by ~Morgan~
12 Sunday Nov 2017
Posted in Poetry
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Beautiful Photographs, BnV, BooknVolume, Harmony, Kindness, Nature, poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Challenges, relationships, spirituality, Thankfulness, Unity, ~Morgan~
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There is a Delicate Charm
And magnificent Splendour
To the infinitesimal
With gladness engendered,
Lush Beauty reigns
In each blade of grass,
A Wealth of Simplicity
Unsurpassed.
There is Delicate Charm
In the tenderest fire,
Whether blushing rose
Or brindled briar,
That speaks in Harmony
With all that breathes,
Whistling on the wind
As it Delicately Frees!
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Day 4 of 365
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If you’d like to join this challenge, see the Original Post for details.
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~Morgan~
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Beautiful photograph found on Google. Credit Gratefully Acknowledged to the original photographer. Thank you~
11 Saturday Nov 2017
Posted in Poetry
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Beautiful Photographs, BnV, BooknVolume, Harmony, Kindness, Nature, poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Challenges, relationships, spirituality, Thankfulness, Unity, ~Morgan~
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This Bountiful Harvest
Laid before a Thankful Heart
Shared in the Generosity of Spirit
Finds Expression in small seeds of Kindness
As the rush and hustle of day to day
Dwindles at the Banquet
And all those who Pause to Enjoy the Feast
Find Renewal in the succulent Simplicity.
Dance then upon the table of Life
Lifting Spirits with your seeds of Grace
Whispering in Lush Harmonious tones
Of the Beauty this place has to offer,
Sing in Symphonic Unity
With the birds of the air and the lambs of the field
Reaping a Harvest of Magnanimity
In the Splendid repast of Rhyme!
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Day 3 of 365
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If you’d like to join this challenge, see the Original Post for details.
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~Morgan~
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Beautiful photograph found on Google. Credit Gratefully Acknowledged to the original photographer. Thank you~
09 Thursday Nov 2017
Posted in Poetry
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Beautiful Photographs, BnV, BooknVolume, Harmony, Kindness, Nature, poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Challenges, relationships, spirituality, Thankfulness, Unity, ~Morgan~
Today I shall embark upon another year of Poetic Inspiration! Crazy? Probably, but Marvelously Rewarding as well. After an entire year of Haiku, one might think the prospect of staring at another full year of prompted writing would be daunting, and one might be right (or Write, depending!) However, if you know anything about me at all, it’s that my love for words and poetry is nearly as boundless as my delight in finding new ways to express that wealth of emotion.
SO, today marks Day One out of 365 in the Idyll Poetry Daily Challenge!!!
What is an Idyll poem? Funny you should ask.
An Idyll poem is a short poem that creates a story and paints a picture of everyday life, while making things that at first seem simple much more important. In a world that always seems to be moving so fast, this type of poem is great because it helps the poet and the reader to appreciate the small things in life. Sometimes, you just need to stop and smell the roses!
Idyll poems are short: Approx. 16 lines
Topics focus on the importance of the small things in daily life
Ingredients usually include: People and animals in a natural surroundings
Dates back to: Ancient Greece **
Sounds Perfect! After all, much of my own poetry and writing evolves around the principles of Finding Calm, Enjoying Nature, and Living Harmoniously, so what could be better than a year’s worth of poetry lauding the same?
As such, each day I shall select an image that Inspires and allow the Spirit of Expression free reign! I hope you will enjoy what that Spirit Inspires and might choose to Sing Along!
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Walking in the garden
Beneath the blushing auburn sky,
Gaze blissfully enraptured,
Heart enigmatically wondering why;
Why should it be so challenging
To Walk and See the Grandeur
Of this Diamond Simplicity
In riches named so poor?
Upon the burnished red-bud
Blooming in sweet glory;
Lilting through the music
Of the Sparrow’s humble story;
Caroling in timeless refrain
Through gilded star-lit skies,
Through these simples Blessings
The Spirit Laughs and Sighs!
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~Morgan~
** Italicized Excerpt taken from http://www.powerpoetry.org **
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Beautiful Photograph found on Google. Credit Gratefully Acknowledged to the Original photographer. Thank You~
02 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Daily Haiku Challenge
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Beautiful Photographs, BnV, BooknVolume, Cosmos, Harmony, Inspiration, Nature, Poem, poetry, Poetry Blog, spirituality, Stars, Unity, ~Morgan~
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Standing on the shore
Gazing O’er the vast expanse
Sighs in Unity
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To take part in the Daily Haiku Challenge see The Original Post from Day One
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Day 277 / 365
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Beautiful photo found on Pinterest. Credit Gratefully acknowledged to the original photographer. Thank You~
12 Monday Jun 2017
Posted in Poetry
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Blessing, BnV, BooknVolume, Dreams, Hope, Inspiration, Joy, life, Love, Peace, Poem, poetry, spirituality, Unity, ~Morgan~
Love Can Touch the Heart of the Soul,
Love Can Create a Vision of Unity,
Love Can Break down Boundaries,
If You Open Your Heart and Your Spirit to it’s Purity.
Love Can Dance on the Wings of the Wind,
Love Can Smile at the Barred, Closed Door,
Love Can Give All, Asking Nothing in Return,
Love Can Face Doubt, Ever True, Ever Sure.
Love Can Bring Joy and Peace Beyond Measure,
But Only When Love is Invited Within,
Love Can Be a Blessing More Precious than Treasure.
Only When Love is Allowed to Begin.
~Morgan~
18 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Poetry
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Beloved, BnV, BooknVolume, Desire, eternity, Longing, Love, passion, Poem, poetry, Romance, Soul Mates, Unity, ~Morgan~
Delight My Senses
With Your every word, My Love,
Send Shivers into the very Heart of me;
With All You Say,
Honeyed Baritone
Singing as Pure Symphony.
Enchant my Spirit
With Your Rapturous Gaze, Beloved,
Pour Passion as the Lover You Long to Be;
One Ever Reaching Stare,
O Heaven’s Masterpiece,
Shall Beguile me for Eternity!
Captivate my Heart
With Your Exquisite Touch, Sweet Lover,
Alluring as None Else can Be;
Fill my Thoughts, My Breath, My Life,
Soul of my Soul,
While, Together, We Embody True Unity.
~Morgan~
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Beautiful Original Artwork by: Lauri Blank
22 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Just Me Musing
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BnV, BooknVolume, Harmony, Human Interests, Inspiration, life, Love, relationships, spirituality, Unity, ~Morgan~
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Thanks once again to your friend and mine Richard Ankers, who has been writing and sharing his wealth of words on Medium.com, I popped by the site today and decided to give it a go.
Always hoping to Inspire, I shared the following, which you can also read in its entirety on the website itself.
A Friend and I were recently talking about the Amish and Mennonite who he described as writing their poetry with the fine works of their hands, rather than with words as he and I do, which I thought was a truly beautiful perspective. I wandered down the path of this perspective, as I am wont to do, and I realized how this is true for most of us, if lyricism or writing, painting and photography are not the gifts to hand. We make our mark on this world, in big and small ways, in lasting ways we little realize, with our words, with our smiles, with our choices, with our convictions, and with our compassion.
As most of you are probably aware, I am Christian by Faith, but I also think outside, above, and on many other sides of the box. I agree with and admire many other philosophies and forms of spiritualism who revere all living creatures and live harmoniously in this world. This appeals to me a great deal and I think this is what Jesus meant when He said “Love your Neighbor as Yourself”. Yet the longer I think about this and wander down the path of musing, I am forced to consider, just who is my neighbor?
Is it the old woman living next door? Is it the young child that runs around in Walmart that others scowl at for making too much noise? Is it the overly obese woman no one wants to look at because society tells us she is ugly and unworthy? Is it the old man with little of his teeth who is standing on the corner with a tin cup hoping for a few coins so he can eat something today? Is it the child whose parents neglect and abuse because they are more interested in drugs? Or is it those same parents? Is it the person of a different nationality than my own whom I cannot understand on the other end of the telephone line who is trying to help me? Is it the young man on a skateboard with his pants half way to his knees and his hat on sideways who I simply cannot relate to? Is it the “crazy” old lady in the mall who is talking to the bench she is sitting on because no one else will talk to her?
Is it the dog that is left to starve because its owners have decided they are tired of it?……. Please stop by Neighbors on Medium.com to read more.
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~Morgan~
21 Tuesday Mar 2017
Posted in Poetry
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BnV, BooknVolume, Cosmos, Faith, Harmony, Inspiration, Love, Poem, poetry, Poetry Blog, spirituality, Unity, ~Morgan~
OH the Beauty I See in You,
That You See in me,
Perfect
Transcending
Unity,
Abolishing this place in which we Breathe,
To Touch Your Love with mortal hands,
To Quietly BE
And Understand,
Your Love Surrounds when Dark is Night,
When Alone we Stand in Crowded Sight,
Whispers of Your Infinite Splendor,
Faith
Hope
To Tenderly Engender,
Yet to Linger in this Quiet room
Of Willing Grace Beyond the Earthly Tomb,
Like the cosmos Stretching,
Eternal
Unending
Heaven’s Love Tirelessly Bending,
To Touch the pain of man’s denial,
To Quietly BE
Without shame,
Without guile,
To See the Beauty only in You,
Shimmering
Hoping
Endlessly True.
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(*^‿^*) ✫¸.•°*”˜˜”*°•.✫ღ˚ •。* ˚ ˚✰˚ ˛…Happy World Poetry Day…~ ★* 。 ღ˛° 。✫¸.•°*”˜˜”*°•✫ (*^‿^*)
~Morgan~
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Beautiful Original Artwork by: Igor Zenin
26 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in Daily Haiku Challenge
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Beautiful Photographs, BnV, BooknVolume, Change, Diversity, Harmony, Inspiration, Nature, Poem, poetry, Poetry Blog, relationships, Unity, ~Morgan~
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Directions differ
Fused by a similar Breath
Harmony Growing
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To take part in the Daily Haiku Challenge see The Original Post from Day One
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Day 94 / 365
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~Morgan~
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Beautiful Original Photography By Jean-Philippe Jouve . Thank You~
25 Wednesday Jan 2017
Posted in Just Me Musing
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BnV, BooknVolume, Harmony, Hope, Inspiration, Inspirational Quotes, Love, Peace, relationships, spirituality, The Power of Words, Unity, ~Morgan~
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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
-Edgar Allan Poe
Do we truly ever stop to consider just how far and wide our words and musings travel? How often do we say things before we consider the lasting effect those words may have, on others or on our own lives? Can we grasp the powerful truth that what we Speak Becomes our reality?
I have listened these past months to all the raucous noise of hatred and intolerance; of friends dividing from friends and loved ones from loved ones and I have not raised my voice.
Rumi said: “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
How right he was, for the Power of our words, whether spoken or written, create change, instill impressions, teach lasting lessons, and take root. I recently stumbled across my own words, which I used on Facebook as part of my profile introduction, and had to pause.
Words are spoken, heard, seen, felt and dreamed
Indeed they are! In this hour, when unleashed anger spills in floods over our world, near and far; how will we Choose to use our words? Will we Build or destroy? Will we mock or Encourage? Will we take aim with Positive or negative energy? For myself, for my writing and the consequence of the same I will strive to unleash Harmony. Compassion. Tolerance.
“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
Human beings are blessed with the rare gift of language, but they are also blessed with a gift called conscience. Regardless of whether you believe in an afterlife or not; heedless of the truth of Karma or the possibility of having to answer for our every action in some measure of Judgement, the simple reality, in my humble opinion, is this: what we say; notwithstanding how we say it, has a consequence. My words, written or spoken, will have an effect on someone, somewhere, in some manner, and I do not flout that responsibility. Certainly I feel strongly about this or that, but I do not presume I know enough to say that I am right and someone else is wrong. What if we are all wrong?
What if the only Power on Earth and in the vast cosmos o’er our heads is the Potent Power of a Single Syllable?
Love.
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~Morgan~
11 Sunday Dec 2016
Posted in Guest Bloggers on BnV
Somehow, the words to this song remind me of our relationship with God.
Humbling, joyous, unifying.
I never knew I lost you till I found you
And I never guessed how close you were to me
And now I wanna throw my arms around you
Tell a thousand tales that will astound you
Everything about you tells me this was meant to be, don’t you see
I’m on your side
Let’s take this ride
And together we’re facing the world
Doing things nobody’s done before
And the great divide
Doesn’t seem so wide anymore
I can’t recall what life was like without you
Now it feels as though we’ve never been apart
Tell me every tiny thing about you
Anything you’ll say I’ll never doubt you
We’re meant to be together I can feel it in my heart
It’s just the start
I’m on your side
Let’s take this ride
And together we’re facing the world
Doing things nobody’s done before
And the great divide
Doesn’t seem so wide
And if you’ll be there beside me when I falter
(You’ll be there beside me when I falter)
Then whatever comes I know we’ll take it all in stride
(Take it all in stride)
I’m on your side
The great divide
Doesn’t seem so wide
I’m on your side
Let’s take this ride
And together we’re facing the world
Doing things nobody’s done before
And the great divide
Doesn’t seem so wide anymore
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