Luck is lurking
It waits in your dark spots
On a shelf
Quietly gathering dust
And lint
Just out of sight
Slide your hand in
Find a $10 note from last year
Hurrah!
Luck
Waiting for you to smile again
Remember it
When you’re happy it comes so easily
When you’re sad
There is none to find
And sometimes when you’re neither
Not
One nor the other
It just appears
Like a stubbed toe surprise
That doesn’t hurt
But rather relieves the pressure
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The thing about luck
Is it’s something we cling to
We forget
It is fragile.
A spiders web to walk through
Soon gone
Like morning damp
As fickle as an imaginary friend
With whom I once argued
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Is it real?
The picture is of adventure bikes parked along Main Street on a recent bike trip I did to Winton, an outback town 2 day’s ride from my home. As riders – we tend to throw our faith behind luck at least a little.
But is it real?
Punters out for a Saturday bet – some days luckier than others. Frowns, smiles, blame cast to luck or the lack of it.
But is it real?
I don’t know, but my theory is this. Luck is energy. When you are in a good place and buoyant with happiness – luck seems to smile more often.
Have you ever had one of those days when you burn your breakfast. The gas runs out while you’re in the shower – no hot water, squeal!!! Of course it is when you have just shampooed you’re hair so …that sucks.
Then your car breaks, you get an unexpected bill in the mail, in trouble at work
Etc
Etc
What if the energy you attracted early in the day is compounded as more bad things happen and you stay in that state of mind becoming increasingly off centre and cranky and distracted?
Instead – try and shake of every single bad thing that happens
After all it can’t hurt
And it can do a lot of good
But what about luck – is it real?
I don’t know but energy is real and it never lies
So I prefer to work with energy
Being in the right place at the right time to seize an opportunity. Is that luck?
I think that would be an example of it Len. It would make me feel lucky anyway.
From an Ancient Vietnam Vet in Alaska, in an old log cabin, to a Thousand Bits of Paper down under in Australia, I Loved every word of LUCK, I am lucky my old heart is still beating, I am lucky when I wake in the morning and Thank the Sun for rising and gifting us another day of Life! I am Lucky when I see that Full Moon reassuring us that the Sun is still shinning, even tho it is shinning on the other side of our one and only Planet….I Loved every word YOU wrote, I had to read it three times to make sure I got it right! Thank YOU for a beautiful Poem……Old George in Alaska…. ________________________________
Thanks George – I’m glad you liked it 😊🦋
The divine is real 🙂 It continues to show up even when I’m a raving lunatic. Today it was a basket of Christmas decorations headed to donation by a family I clean for. Jase and I don’t have a single decoration, but we will have all of our children for Christmas this year. Hooray, problem solved and off to donation they will go after the holiday.
That is so cool! Love it and yes I agree – the divine is real – we just need to be looking, hence the old term “chin up” and why it is important to heed such sage advice.
Yes, we all need to look up a bit more don’t we 🙂
Sometimes it’s difficult Mare – but I guess the alternative doesn’t help either that’s for sure
I love this as I am the perpetual uplooker… most of the time.
Excellent – up looking is the luckies way to be
I feel lucky to have you around and I am blessed that you are writing and I am reading. I sure am feeling lucky , Katy!!❤️
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I’m a big believer in energies too and it has definitely helped to change my energy to bring more positivity to my life.
Luck is attracted (I believe) to higher energy, positivity and hard work. I’m glad you managed to change, a lot of people become stuck.
I absolutely agree luck has a lot to do with the energy you put out and let in. I think a lot of people end up stuck because they’re not sure what to do next I feel like that’s what happened for me at least but luckily my mum helped me a lot with changing my energy.
Ah the dreaded question. Is it real? Philosophically, I think anything is debatable, but I do have to say I believe in karma. Perhaps that, in a sense, is luck.
I believe in energy and I love the feeling of lucky – but they are all just words in the end.
This is true. I think life is really what you make of it. It’s nice to feel as though times will improve if they’re not ideal. It helps with hope.