Spread Wide {Five Minute Friday}

Around here on Friday, I try to play along with the Five Minute Friday group at Lisa-Jo Baker's blog. We let our words fly out of the cage and soar--just for five minutes, without fear of what flies out of hearts through fingertips onto keyboards, no editing, no back-tracking. no worrying if it's perfect, just from a one-word prompt. Come play along too? Here we gooo......


GO.

She wanders out to soak in the sun beneath an oak,
in the dappled light that traces her skin and makes her feel alive.
She notices the Spider Lilly, just one lone lilly in all it's beauty
and splendor, tall and strong, defiant right there in the open
It screams red color and life and it's independence to her
And she knows she's like the flower, too.
She knows she's been one lone reed,
She knows she's even been defiant in her aloneness
Unwilling to break, to bend, to meld into their box,
to cower in their corners they try to back her into.
She knows the rejection the flower must feel
But she looks again and sees how the lilly opens wide
to the air, the breeze, the sun and God above.
She notices it's spreading and taking in, it's unfolding
and yes, even it's love, it's giving
Shining it's beauty so brilliant, just there for others to behold
And she knows that like the flower, she must find her way to spread
wide and give and receive.

STOP.

{This week's prompt was wide}.

Would you like to come play along, to write words and release them from their prison, let them soar? Sheer JOY!!