Writing in Snow

Monday and Tuesday Gratitude Lists

Kamál (Perfection), 18 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 176 B.E. - Monday, June 3, 2019

Gratitude List for 18 ‘Aẓamat

Today I am thankful...
          ...that my Bank of America checking account is not overdrawn this morning.
          ...for the fresh brewed coffee I have today.
          ...that I was able to pay the rent today.
          ...for the Arizona sweet ice tea I had with my lunch.
          ...that I have 486 points in my Survey Junkie account.

Fiḍál (Grace), 19 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 176 B.E. - Tuesday, June 4, 2019

"After Midnight" 1

After midnight
the seconds become minutes suspended
on the event horizon of a black hole.

A black hole that pulls
and stretches the minutes
into hours longing for dawn.

After midnight
the mind falls
into a cogitative languor
waiting for the hours
to be pulled into days.

Days overflowing
with the agony of months
stretching into years.

After midnight
the eyes stare into years
elongating into decades.

Decades pulled
second by second into centuries
that are pulled minute by minute
into millennia that are stretched
hour by h our into aeons.

Gratitude List for 19 ‘Aẓamat

Today I am thankful...
          ...that my Bank of America checking account is not overdrafted this morning.
          ...for fresh brewed hot coffee on this late spring morning.
          ...that I have 676 points in my Survey Junkie account.
          ...for the working air conditioner we have in this apartment.
          ...that I have completed 18 of the 200 poems I'm writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab. I have 182 poems left to write in 147 days.
          ...for the chocolate covered cherries I have for an afternoon snack.

Footnotes
1  I posted this in Poet 999 - A Butterfly Emerges from Her Cocoon https://poet999.blogspot.com/2019/06/after-midnight.html.