Two Mondo’s Contemplating Winter

Perpetual Soirée

Winter of masking

care and stress everywhere

When will better days arrive?

This bitter distress

Masquerading as winter

May caper long into spring

and

Winter Bloom

Alabaster fields

Feel desolate as deserts

And yet, they harbor hope

A lone flower stands

One bright spot against the pale

Perhaps a brave garden’s start?

A collaboration between Kristen @rhode-reads on Instagram and Andy @agarrabrant on Instagram.

Spread Wide

Pathos was the last

emotion I expected.

Furious disgust

seems much more appropriate,

considering the offense.

To jeopardize everyone

with no justification

screams of a sad hollowness.

Exodus Chapter 2 Verse 1-5

And lo, ye shall encounter many more obstacles
And try as thee might, the locust wood shall not succumb to thy saw.
Thou heavest mightily against the bough and yet it remaineth obdurate and immobile before thine efforts
And yet, brother, despair not, for thou hast a dutiful village
And the Lord hath endowed them with the power of the mighty Kubota.