Ode to The Sun and to our own bright Light
3 Dec. 2013 early the sunset on Lake Erie. I woke dreaming about the Sun this morning. More of the why of it, as we rotate around and around it for who really knows the millennium. It’s...
View ArticleCOMPASSION… The Heart’s Compass. a haibun
I went here the other day… http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-the-questions/201312/25-women-writers-share-their-best-self-compassion-tips It reminded me of my own journey, of my own feelings...
View ArticleWINTER SUN
Morning… watching the sun rise this cold morning. Thinking about how the Sun is tease, and how I am fooled again and again into thinking that it just might be warmer out there than I think. HAaaa....
View ArticleSPACIOUSNESS … a tanka
There is room to shift Imagine your spaciousness A vast Universe Breathe it All in, fill yourself Change the world one breath at a time A vast Universe An Infinite mystery There is room to shift...
View Article“She’s tossing ice cubes in my fire”
“Cold wicked breath snaking around the house looking for a place to squeeze in and whisper something chilling to my soul. She takes me off guard sometimes, but I wait and fend her off with some good...
View ArticleThe end of New Year’s Resolutions in the BE HERE NOW…
The New Year approaches, in the traditional sense, on this coming eve of 31 Dec. Contemplation of resolutions, imaginings of the coming year, hopes and dreams, shifts and changes, the maybe’s and the...
View ArticleTHe Blue Jay… a phantom, pantoum.
In the still bitter chill of the winter white Busy is the Blue Jay in his taking Naked limb to naked limb dancing Squawking for the spare of this season’s bounty Busy is the Blue Jay in his taking...
View ArticleOld Journals and the-way-back-then in the Now
I remember the decades ago of writing every bit of angst that drooled out of me, in journals that I have long since lost. There is a part of me that would like to see what held me to all that youthful...
View ArticleA New Year’s Prayer
FREE Make this not the End of a year Rather invite each new day A moment to raise up and Sound out a new beginning. These are the days and You are the ONe. Not a corner of the Universe Is without a...
View ArticleA little sentiment in the 5/7/5 of New Year
Happy New Year and Happy New Moon. Thank to all of you for visiting, listening, responding to my words laid out here in the free fall of the moments. I especially love when you say a few words,...
View Article‘I’m the youngest I’ll ever be’… a pantoum.
I’m the youngest I’ll ever be right now Youth had its way with all my parts I’ve parted with those days for these So many moments brought me here Youth had its way with all my parts It was quite a...
View ArticleCrystalline Bubbles in the Deep Freeze
The Winter Polar Vortex of Freezing bitter cold lays itself all over this land. -35F. The Sun rises in his betrayal happy to greet the day. It is a betrayal I welcome for the blue that takes away...
View Articlea leaf
I want to do that. I do. Lay words down like a slow drift of a leaf caught by the babble of a creek over stones and branches. Wisped along soft and quiet like, within the profundity of its nature...
View ArticleA Fire On Your Skin… A Pantoum
The spirit of it leaves a fire on your skin Longing for the rain to come The days have a way of being so dry Smelling the moist in the passing clouds Longing for the rain to come See the grey gloom...
View ArticleSpaciousness and being a birthday girl
Eegads… One more day, dang, less than 24hours, double dang, and I will embrace a new year of living on this planet. Birthdays come ever so quickly as age settles in… don’t they? I look in the mirror...
View ArticleFourteen January, Two Thousand and fourteen… a pantoum.
My own little Milky Way… Infinite Spaciousness. This day begins my New Year. How will you make way for more spaciousness in your Life? This days numerology adds up to 13, which in tarot cards is the...
View ArticleWinter silence… haiku
Flakes fall soft in breeze Slow to find a place to rest Winter loves his chill Winter loves his chill Let’s the Sun give His deceit Blue and gloom collide Blue and gloom collide Chasing each...
View ArticleWINTER’S COLD ARMS
Winter pulls me into his cold arms Rocks me down to my roots Where the sap of me slows And slows some more in the freeze into a still quiet place moving Sustainability holds to the early harvest...
View Article‘Outta Here’ prompt #1
I joined a little group for 27 days of prompts. This is the first prompt (in green) . The poem below it is where it all took me. It isn’t where I thought it would go and I let be. “ Outta Here… You...
View Article“I think I’m gonna Scream”.. prompt 3
prompt for today… Describe a moment when the dull drone of a conversation is completely consumed by the utter boring chatter about something you not only don’t care about AT All, and you really aren’t...
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