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Jared and Jessica

Can’t help falling in love
with an eye fiesta
of variegated sea blues to green lawn
From Aqua bay to 
Green shades native forest
Tui notes cascade above
white water stream,
Grey clouds lace mountain ridges
releasing showers onto 
the dress up colours of wedding guests
and umbrellas fetched from cars.

Then a pause in the rainy weather
Moisture trickles joy in eyes
of the bow tie groom
as the bride glides on father’s arm
down the grassy isle,
Ceremony words
Lace the air
Weaving God’s life
Prayer and communion
Laughter with love
Friends and family in tune
with the outdoor celebration,
A stillness descends
wind pauses holding breath
and sun warms our backs
Rings with pledges and loyalty 
exchanged
Jared and Jessica
Heart and song
Can’t help falling in love
with you

Starting Thoughts:
A wedding of a great pair of friends. Held in one of the bays in Akaroa, Christchurch.
Poem Topic Tags: #wedding, #ceremony, #church, #friends, #love, #vows, #relationships
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife
marriage and love, ceremony on Banks Peninsula

No Wind Kite

Dusk stole 
across the park grass
Thinning behind winter tree branches
yellow orange striped candy colours
sunset lowering on the horizon,
still and crisp air
resting on park and playground
Friend’s children climbing rope 
tetrahedron
Shouts to Dad
This is a spaceship, a mountain
a dream...

As we clambered down
hit the swing for one last time,
For the fifteenth repeat
I was asked, “Can we fly the kite?”
I glanced to the zipped backpack
Leaning against park picnic bench
With a rainbow skin and spars
poking from the top.

I pointed out the lack of wind
No moving branches
no twitch of twigs
Distracted them with flying science
about helicopters and blades
Birds and wings
Even pointed out starlings perched
dark blobs in naked branches,
And then suddenly
I realised
if the children run
dragging the kite to height - win, win
The kite will fly - sort of
                         - sort of fun
The boys will become more tired... 

How often do we think 
the wind is not there? 

Run with the kite!

Starting Thoughts:
Flying (or not) a kite with the grandchildren leads to thinking about how we encounter the Holy Spirit.
Poem Topic Tags: #grandchildren, #hope, #kites, #perseverance, #spirit, #window,
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife
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