Gray rainy days
Why we need inner sunshine
Why we need inner focus
Bringing light to the world
We fret too much, this and that
Making unnecessary choices
After all, we’re here
It’s always now, never sooner or later
Bright pink azalea blossoms in sunlight
They’re possible any day
Come rain or shine
Always inside us, waiting
Outside my window—
A determined blue jay
Squawking about this and that
I laugh; that’s me
The rain subsides
Giving way to stillness
Even that nature provides
It’s ours, if we stop our squawking
Then there are the clouds
Hiding the sun
So nature’s tears can soak deep
Into the thirsty earth
Gray rainy days
Reminding us, listen, hear
The rain singing on the roof
Reminding us, bring our light to the world
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Author: Don Iannone, D.Div.
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Photographer, poet, teacher, complementary medicine provider, interfaith minister, and former economic developer. Holds a Doctorate in Divinity, Master of Divinity, Master of Mind-Body Medicine, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology. Clinical certifications in Reiki, guided meditation, life purpose coaching, and spiritual counseling. Author of 12 books, including two new books in the contemporary spirituality field. Learn more here.
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Poetic Alchemist 
Don, I really dig your poetry. I am a poet myself who has been word pressing in chaotic soul for about as long as you have. I really identify with blue jays. I see them and feel like they are my good spirit guiding me in a sense, its very complicated. I have written about it on a few occasions if you poke around my web site. I would like to have some more correspondence while I enjoy your work I hope you also enjoy my own. Hope to hear from you. Never stop writing. It’s all we have on those gray rainy day’s.
Have I missed a lot …Wow so peaceful as I read your words..here Im in mid of heat of Middle East ..I feel your rain soaking me with rain, earth and peace
Thank you
thank you for sharing your gift of poetry. You’re work is truely beautiful…Andrea
Creation of a cure
Relative to
A choice to endure
We all have such potion
To ease
The pain in emotion
Perception,Deception
Relative to
Our cures conception
haha… i’m the squawking blue jay too… this is a beautiful reminder poem…
I laugh; that’s me, too.
howdy Don!
just checking 2 C how ya doing? 🙂