Author: belindabotzong

I am a writer of historical fiction currently working on a novel based in Washington State from the years of 1900-1945. I love to write poetry and prose inspired by Creation, as well as share in life's journey through grief, mental illness, and travel. I am very blessed to be able to pursue my passion of writing, creating, and sharing my thoughts here.

Love

Love as deep as the ocean

Unfathomable

Love as vast as the sky

Immeasurable

Love as abundant as air

Incalculable

Love as infinite as the sands of the earth

Unbelievable

Love as wide as the world

Incomprehensible

Perfect, plentiful, unconditional

Jesus loves me this I know

For all creation tells me so

©Belindabotzong2018

God’s Studio

Famed artist makes a local visit

Splashing vivid tones across the landscape

A dizzying array

A wild frenzy

A fantastic display

Gradients and bold, bright hues

Shades of pink and yellow, orange and blue

Matching and contrasting

Grass, trees and sky

Filling my garden and pleasing my eye

That glorious creator of color

Blossoms and blooms

Frantically bless our senses

Delightful and delicious to behold

His creative hand and eye at work

In His studio called Spring!

©Belindabotzong2018

Perfect Spring Morning

Blossoms and buds

Awaken

Brilliant red rhodie

Perfect pink peony

Bright blue rock seed

Orange and yellow with purple splashes fill out spring’s palette

Trills and tweets

Twitters and sweet whistles

Carrying tunes of joyful birds on wafts of morning breezes

As they gather pieces of nesting treasures

Coolness ahead of summer-like days

Saltwater fragrances fill the sky covered in a thick marine layer

Awaiting the big reveal of sunshine blue skies

©Belindabotzong2018

Reflection Perfection

In a shadow

Sun set stretches her thin along a path

In a pond

Ripples reflect the skewed expression

In a mirror

Reveal the flaws hidden in her skin, her hair

In a window

Reality distorted peering back

In his eyes

Perfection

©Belindabotzong2018

Music of Spring

Finch plays her piccolo

Flicker on percussion

Robins join in soprano trills

Hummingbird with her metronome

Bees buzz in perfect harmony

Sparrows round out the symphony in melodious notes

Tones and tunes in perfect pitch

Notes and measures played on queue

All in praise of their maestro, conductor, creator

The music of spring returns

Pulling on heartstrings

©Belindabotzong2018

Good Morning

Clock radio sings me into consciousness

I slowly peel my eyes open and leave my dreams upon my pillow

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Coffee maker brews hot Italian roasted coffee

I inhale its rich aroma and pour its elixir in a swirl of just enough cream

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Little robin red breast breaks the silence of my morning quiet time

Reminding me there is work to do

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off I go

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©Belindabotzong2018

Conversations

Conversations

Two haggard men

Bent backs and stubbled chins

Shuffle down the sidewalk

Intent in conversation

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And I wonder

What are they talking about?

How cold it was sleeping outside last night?

How good that coffee was at the free coffee stand they just passed?

How they are tired of the rain?

A cough or aching joints?

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Two preteen girls

One swaying with her right arm around the branch of a full-bloom cherry tree

Far from the others on the playground

Giggling as they converse

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And I wonder

What are they chatting about

The latest phone app?

Their math homework assignment?

The cute boy over there?

The kid who eats lunch alone and picks fights?

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Two men at a cafe table

Dressed in business casual

Hair neatly trimmed as they dine on fresh fish

Speaking loudly as one monologues about Work and stress and traffic and commuting

Then family and faith and procuring an analyst for an open position.

Selling a house and amused the owner of the new house wanted to keep the bird bath

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And I wonder

What’s the other guy thinking?

The stock market has been good?

Business has been booming?

New grand baby on the way?

Or maybe awaiting the results of a medical test he had done yesterday?

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So many conversations

Surround us all

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Happy news

Complaints

Worries

Frustrations

Thankfulness

Commiserations

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Tune in

Listen

Share a burden

Rejoice with success

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Life is all the same no matter the conversation

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Life is hard and good and unpredictable and beautiful

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©Belindabotzong2018