when things get tough
we can fret and frown
feel hopeless, get gruff
let worry press us down
don’t feel tired or bound
healthier to turn it around
make choices that are sound
seek, for they can be found
we write our own script!
dVerse, Kim – take any meaning, form or compound of the word fret,
and write a poem of exactly 44 words
That rainbow took my breath away…ahhhhhh..(sigh of joy)…and then your words blew me away…..
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The rhymes and short lines of your quadrille make is sound like a mantra to repeat each morning to keep us sane – I think I’ll write it down and pin it up above my desk. I know it’s not writing my own script, but it will get me there.
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We write our own script…yes indeed. ❤
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A rainbow is the perfect photo for this poem – one can chose to see the rain or the focus on the beauty that can result from it. Your words of wisdom are beautifully written!
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If we seek a path, we shall get one – a beautiful read my friend
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Yours is better.
Fretting surrounds chokes today
Tomorrow we will clever pay
The tab for indulgence is great
Life is about making mistakes
I close my eyes and allow
Words to be guzzled down
I find my death in mystery
After you give a kiss to me
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Fantastic words Kate.
One needs time to learn this but also some positive happenings bring the joy and courage.
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I think there is almost always a better solution than to sulk… but it’s a trap we easily fall in.
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too many are conditioned to their pity parties and it benefits nobody!
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We sure can write our own script. For some time i have been practising to see and to say ‘there is benefit in this’ , when something upsetting comes a long. Finding this a very useful tool.
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Lovely and so positive!
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Maybe I’m just in a good place these days as when I think of ‘fret’ I think of musical instruments .
😉
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“A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck. On most modern western fretted instruments, frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard.”
But fret also does mean to worry, to irritate, gnaw, even erode.
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Well, I’m more into “typing” my own script as fingers aren’t so used to with long writing anymore 🙂
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Love it! A great way to live our life. 😊
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“we write our own script!”
Couldn’t agree more, Kate. Fantastic pic. 🙂
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Yes so true we need to find our own way and no need of stressing and whining. Nice words, Kate.
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Great poem Kate. Concise and to the point. We are the authors of our “own play.” Thus we write our own script.
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Great advice Kate, and well written!
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Excellent and so true!!! 🙂 We do have choices, we do write our own script as to how we will respond, what our attitude will be, etc! 🙂
I live by many mottoes. One is: Make fun, not fret! 😉 HA!
Your rainbow photo! Wow! Truly the beauty after a storm! 🙂
Thank you, Kate!!! 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Ha! I made it up! But I do try to live by it. 🙂 ❤
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Love this!! First just the photo (it’s been so long since I’ve seen rainbows and any double was never so perfect its awesome that you got to see that), second the poem. It’s a cool photo to go along with your poem for rainbows show the beauty from the rain.
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Empowering!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
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