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Posted on July 9, 2023July 3, 2023

Explorers Dare Encounter

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petal-jawed garden dragons
who feast on rain
and daydreams

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Posted on July 8, 2023June 22, 2023

Welcome Wild Neighbors

garden in the woods
a birdbath to feed
hawk and deer

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Posted on July 7, 2023June 22, 2023

Touch Of Blue

the sun in her zenith
making a blinding white
you unbothered
with the sky on your wings

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Posted on July 6, 2023June 22, 2023

How Else Can We Dream?

this barn with a picture window
it seems even tractors need
a room with a view

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Posted on July 5, 2023July 3, 2023

Grace

the peony
bowed by the rains
dignity exemplified

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Posted on July 4, 2023June 22, 2023

Striking Poses

so many sides to you
each new view
a revelation

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Posted on July 3, 2023June 22, 2023

Listening To Time

time resides in the sound
of the river current’s
constant caress of the old tree stump

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Posted on July 2, 2023July 2, 2023

Oceans Of Color

in the deep pink sea
peonies undulate
their stamen anemone

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Posted on July 1, 2023June 22, 2023

Into The Woods

past the garden’s edge
the light in the woods
an invitation to more

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Posted on June 30, 2023June 22, 2023

Ways Of Being Chosen

to be picked by the eye
rather than the hand
is to be held in
an admiration of reverence

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Posted on June 29, 2023June 22, 2023

Flight Of The Baby Snapping Turtle

a bird plucked you from the ground
then found you undesirable and dropped you down
some million turtle miles from the brook
to which you were returned completely unshook

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Posted on June 28, 2023June 14, 2023

To Make Friends

life presents us two companions
joy and sorrow
our task is to hold their hands simultaneously

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Posted on June 27, 2023June 14, 2023

A Lazy Graze

cows know
how to do summer
slow and sweet

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Posted on June 26, 2023June 14, 2023

Performance Artists

raindrop acrobats
balance on the petal edge
defiant of gravity

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Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023

A Fleeting Fame

duet of iris
took their moment
in the sun

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Posted on June 24, 2023June 14, 2023

Many Named Sweetheart

each pink purse
filled with love
for the world

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Posted on June 23, 2023June 12, 2023

Mountain Flower

blooming in the woods
for the delight
of trees

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Posted on June 22, 2023June 12, 2023

Promise

a preview of pink
before petals can
even imagine individuation

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Posted on June 21, 2023June 12, 2023

The Saving Sunshine

banished now the dreary dread
of March through May’s gray
by pansy light and luminous leaves

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Posted on June 20, 2023June 10, 2023

Commencement

some say white
is not a color
but a beginning

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Posted on June 19, 2023June 10, 2023

Openings

between the heron and the house
morning wanders across the meadow
charming the new day

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Posted on June 18, 2023June 18, 2023

Sharing Blossoms

to catch a butterfly’s eye
be still enough to recognize
a kindred spirit

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Posted on June 17, 2023June 4, 2023

Before Us

summer stretches out
in sunshine and tree shade
idle days and lemonade

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Posted on June 16, 2023June 4, 2023

The Naked Eye A Telescope

sighting the shadow of a star
I discovered
a purple constellation

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Posted on June 15, 2023June 4, 2023

Tree-Side Village

the wee-est of the wee forest creatures
lived in a village on a tree
safe and snug and happy as can be

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Posted on June 14, 2023June 4, 2023

Reawakened

when my flame of awe flickers
nature’s beauty
fans it back to fire

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Posted on June 13, 2023June 4, 2023

We Grow, Grow, Grow

contrary to their neat rows
the seedlings desire
of life is feral

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Posted on June 12, 2023June 4, 2023

Let A Flower Be Your Mirror

peering into Johnny’s face
admiring his tiny yellow freckles of pollen
I can almost see my own beauty

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Posted on June 11, 2023June 4, 2023

Circle Garden

at the threshold between sunshine and shade
the circle sculptures speak
of life’s liminal spaces

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Posted on June 10, 2023May 28, 2023

On the Terrace

even the granite
is somehow softened by the wind
and columbine’s enchanting dance

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