Serenity wears many disguises

A break in the day

Day 15 of 30 Days of Poetry, Autumn 2024

Serenity wears
many disguises. 
Standing at an 
edge of change
and uncertainty,
peace comes 
in cool sips
in sunset streaks
in flashes of lightning
to herald 
a break in the heat 
and a promise 
to shatter 
the monotony.

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Today’s word is “serenity”.

The photo above is from Pleasant Pond in Maine and was taken on July 15, 2018, just days after we drove away from our life in Connecticut to move back to the Midwest. We towed our camper and camped along the way. Isaiah is fishing in the lake at sunset.

Life hands us all kinds of disruptions — some more massive than others. But in between life is always drizzled with moments of peace and calm and beauty.

Thanks to Mike Rosen — on of my UU friends — for my prompt today.