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Tag: breath

Posted on March 3, 2026March 1, 2026

Sigh

secretly held breath
miraculously exhaled
spaciousness arrives

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Posted on January 20, 2026January 13, 2026

Sparkling Wonder

winter’s breath
blessing every twig
bedazzling the landscape

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Posted on November 13, 2025November 8, 2025

Clouds Like The Day’s Breath

in November’s dark
the light is brighter
and the blues colder

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Posted on August 22, 2025August 15, 2025

The Lap Of Eternity

resting on shore
each wave
a breath

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Posted on December 28, 2024December 18, 2024

Exhalation

the feathered breath
of winter
sighs upon the window

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Posted on November 7, 2024November 3, 2024

Oak Leaves And Seaweed

riding the breath
of the ocean
home

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Posted on August 30, 2022August 29, 2022

Sky Sighs

as waves are
the ocean’s breath
clouds are the sky’s

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Posted on August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

The Landscape’s Breath

nature makes
a long exhale
of bloom and color

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Posted on January 26, 2022January 25, 2022

Quiet

snow falling
and trees breathing
the only sounds

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Posted on April 3, 2021March 28, 2021

Breath

snow
departing as vapor
old man winter’s last sigh

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Posted on January 10, 2020January 9, 2020

A Pink Orange Sigh


between night’s descent
and the sleeping earth
resides the colored breath of light

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Posted on December 22, 2019December 21, 2019

We Didn’t See Him But We Knew He Was Here


old man winter
passes through
leaving his frozen breath behind

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Posted on November 12, 2019November 11, 2019

Daybreak


winter’s
cold breath
resting in the valleys

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Posted on October 31, 2019October 24, 2019

All The Pumpkins


holding their breath
hoping to make it
to thanksgiving

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Posted on February 28, 2019February 25, 2019

Darkness Gives Us Light


and so
the breath of snowfall
can be seen

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Posted on February 13, 2019February 11, 2019

Into The Calm


slow deep breath
long light sigh
again then again

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Posted on March 24, 2018March 18, 2018

One Breath At A Time


still
in the stillness
meditation on marshland

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Posted on March 8, 2018March 7, 2018

Out and About


a breath of fresh air
to carry us through
to true Spring

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Posted on December 18, 2017December 16, 2017

Rising


the landscape yawns
winter’s breath
rises from the mountains

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Posted on July 14, 2017July 9, 2017

Zen Garden


a pattern
of breath with
stillness in between

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Posted on March 23, 2016March 20, 2016

Touch

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night’s cold breath
caresses the branches
her touch released by the sun

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Posted on March 19, 2016March 13, 2016

Illuminati

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before bursting into being
possibilities illuminate
the breath of every second

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Posted on September 9, 2015September 5, 2015

Below the Surface

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in the still beneath
rain is a caress
water’s breath

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Posted on August 4, 2015July 29, 2015

Petal Pirouettes

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responding to the breeze
and breath of bees and butterflies
an endless dance

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Posted on April 10, 2015April 5, 2015

The Listening World

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all of creation
holding its breath
listening for the stirrings spring

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Posted on February 28, 2015February 18, 2015

Standing Side By Side

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rooted in the now
the wind
is their breath

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Posted on September 5, 2011September 16, 2011

Wind Chime

It is the breath of the divine
that makes the chime sound.

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