a meritorious achievement
of rescuing winter
from the encompassing grey and white
The Usefulness Of Everything
bark, branch and leaf
pay their debt to the earth
with themselves
Advent
each rising day
owes recompense
to the necessary night
Buddha’s Back
in the present
facing the future
honoring the past
Portrait of the Pond
patiently she sits
subtly shifting moods
captured but never contained
Care
stone memories
held in place
by grace
Gleaming
traverse the inevitable darkness
in honor of the gleaming
of the morning sun
Color is the Light
orange and purple dawn
honored by the morning moon
color is the light of autumn’s days
Respect
a freshly mown field
honors the old barn
A Toast
drink
from the goblet of color
to beauty – fair and fleeting
Barn and Branch
honoring the importance of dormancy
neither barn nor branch is impatience
Dress Up
The birch dresses up
in a necklace of violets
to honor the full flower moon.
Wrinkles
Wrinkles in the tree’s bark
will forever honor the missing branch.
Smile lines of its former reach.
Door Yard
I will pick a bouquet
of rosemary, sage, thyme and lemon grass
to honor and adorn tonight’s chicken.