Beauty All Around Us by Cooper Franks
Life is filled with simplicities. A sky consists of air A flowing river cries droplets Yet we overlook each, we hardly care.
Life is filled with complexities. Of things we have yet to know. The universe is vast and grand Yet but our awe is gone, no.
We live in some middle ground Lost within routine But if you gaze up or down You’ll begin to see the unseen.
Oh look. A star. The abyss The grass beneath your feet The simple smile of a friend Wow. The love your eyes meet.
The beauty is all around us In the mystery and the known. Each second is a stitch Into the life we all will sew.
Great Wonder by Cooper Franks
The place of wisdom, is the place of love.
That ice cream cone twist of knowledge
that melt between the cracks of experience.
Life.
Life gives shelter to love.
It nourishes it.
It transforms every one of us
into a philosopher,
an optimistic thought juggler.
Like me.
Love compels me to write.
It thrusts the words from my entirety.
She welcomes love.
The one who entered life with the
arrive fashionably early attitude.
The one who could not wait
to take the first step
to find a voice
to bring luck for all
to live.
Love, at times, may create confusion.
The greatest wonders usually do.
But it forces us to become
us, me, you.
Wind by Cooper Franks
If the wind were to whisper, would you hush the world around you? Would you lean in closer, letting its breath brush the nape of your neck? Or would you turn away and keep walking, counting the cracks in the concrete beneath your feet?
If the sun were to smile down upon you, would you focus your stare? Would you lean in closer, letting its beams bake into your freckled skin? Or would you turn away and keep walking, gazing at the grey clouds going by?
If the ocean were to dance, would you let it lead you?
Would you lean in closer, letting its current caress your muscles in motion? Or would you turn away and keep walking, plucking the particles of sand caught between your toes?
Or would you stop and breathe it in? Only to transform you from within.
Spring Break by Cooper Franks
Crammed with friends we journeyed forth, past bluegrass
Hills and snow tipped trees, into a cabin
Of oak, birch and maple wood, perched on woods
below, away from smog, away from din.
In hiking forth we found ourselves, hidden
In caves and stars above, beyond the tub
Of warmth, we shared some words aloft the steam
And I, alive, aglow, ablaze and free
amid the fire, began to read, digest
educe, elate, enchant, employ my soul
And I, with only mem’ry, left, reflect.
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