endurance
is a game
of adaptation
Roots, Rock, Fungi
Birch Family
together enduring
the winter wind’s pruning
cleaved unto each other
With Age
acceptance
built endurance
elegance in this new stage
An Icon In The Woods
big shouldered
a granite monument
to strength and endurance
Not Moved
in the tumult
mountains remind me
the endurance of truth
The Delicate Alongside The Enduring
each polygon
delivers
petals against granite
Like A Tattered Flag
the barn endured
dutifully
despite the wear
They Meet Each Spring
enduring rock
perpetual phlox
kindreds
Resolve
barely
weathered by winter
the enduring oak
Lightening Sky
in gathering darkness
the weathered barn
endures on
As It Is
weight of time
can be carried in every
form it comes in
Testimony
still standing
our wise elder testifies
to beauty’s endurance
Like to Like
soft as snow
feathered reeds
where winter will rest
Portrait of the Pond
patiently she sits
subtly shifting moods
captured but never contained
Petal Prayers
pink petaled benediction
blessed the time and tending
of the garden’s enduring grace
Outpost
time has worn
the ruby from the clapboards
barns weathering winter
Distance
when spring seems
the farthest from home
it is March
Certainty
Wearing a shroud of winter
the rock sculpture endures
certain of Spring’s dominion.
Railroad Tie
Steel and oak.
Strength at rest.
Endurance is often silent.