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Five Minute Friday

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Most Fridays, I join an online Christian writing community, Five Minute Friday. We are given a one-word prompt and write – unscripted, unedited, pure free-write – for 5 minutes. Five Minute Friday is a great place to hone my writing practice and be encouraged by other writers as I write. I will set the timer for five minutes and then write. Here we go! I am excited to invite you in, welcome.

Today after a long time of word loss a poem has emerged like a sigh.

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Are there words enough to cover

The beauty of a whole life?

Is there a way to live and love

Under the cover of grief and loss?

When you cover me in sunshine

Do I get relief and delight?

I remember a time I did before

Maybe I will again today

turn my face to the sun

A face can only express so much

But then it could also express it all

What will I use to cover up

My tear stained face?

Maybe I don't have to cover up

Under cover searching for clues

The clues I looked for were simple

Yet the complication of their discovery

Keeps them in the recesses of a broken heart

and yet beauty found me anyway

I will hope against all fear

I will trust again in that cover of Love

I will not be left exposed to the elements

I will not be forgotten by beauty

I am under the cover of Grace

Gracefully,

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