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Tag: landscape

Posted on October 12, 2025October 9, 2025

Waking

dawn opened
her sleepy eye
and lo the day began

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Posted on October 11, 2025October 9, 2025

There Is Safety

as an island
has a lighthouse
the earth has the moon

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Posted on October 10, 2025October 9, 2025

Beneath The Moon

as day good-byes
the blue sky waves
in pinks and purples

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Posted on October 9, 2025October 6, 2025

Silt and Shadow

the way every element
was moving, changing, departing
I glimpsed eternity

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Posted on October 7, 2025October 1, 2025

Faith In Mystery

there was
a needed reassurance
in the river’s soft corner

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Posted on October 5, 2025October 1, 2025

Where The Light Gets In

true togetherness
resides in those little spaces
we honor between us

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Posted on October 3, 2025October 1, 2025

Autumn Comes

leaves and water
trembling with the speed
of autumn’s changing colors

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Posted on October 1, 2025September 25, 2025

Commenced

a finger of light
touches the marsh
today awakens

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Posted on September 30, 2025September 25, 2025

The Drought’s Metronome

days tick by
we wait and pray
for rain

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Posted on September 29, 2025September 25, 2025

By And By

white birch
reaching for
the polka dot sky

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Posted on September 27, 2025September 25, 2025

Flower Farm

giving, giving, giving
until taken
by the hard frost

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Posted on September 25, 2025September 15, 2025

No Need For Nails

when architects are trees
the fallen a log bridge
a root an arch

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Posted on September 23, 2025September 15, 2025

Believe

despite the enormity
of the big dark woods
and the smallness of our feet
we can find our way through

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Posted on September 21, 2025September 15, 2025

The Bridge

hear the sound of dog steps
joyfully crossing
back and forth

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Posted on September 19, 2025September 15, 2025

Mid-September

the garden keeps on
with second blooms
and thirds

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Posted on September 17, 2025September 7, 2025

Corn Tassels And Clouds

room to billow
in a wide blue sky
summer’s arms still open

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Posted on September 15, 2025September 7, 2025

Linger Like The Light

in the ever moving stream
there are pools of calm
to be found

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Posted on September 13, 2025August 31, 2025

The Day Reached Out To Hold My Hand

mist lifts
as morning warms
an early autumn caress

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Posted on September 11, 2025August 31, 2025

Ambiguous Sky

uncertain day
begins in
pink and grey

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Posted on September 7, 2025August 31, 2025

Black Rocks Green Leaves

beside the brook
light and shadow
conversed about
contentment’s ways

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Posted on September 6, 2025August 31, 2025

Bear’s Binoculars

dropped
at the sighting
of this winter’s den

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Posted on September 5, 2025August 31, 2025

Dispersing

heron on the wing
an echo of the morning mist
rising and disappearing

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Posted on September 2, 2025August 22, 2025

Stop

wait and watch
as the sun reveals
today’s gifts

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Posted on August 30, 2025August 22, 2025

Why The Meadow Blooms

for the bees
and the earth
and her own pleasure

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Posted on August 28, 2025August 22, 2025

The Day Starts With Conversation

crows
in the field
morning corn klatch

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Posted on August 26, 2025August 22, 2025

Secret Passage

only we know
the feet that tread these stairs
in twos and fours

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Posted on August 24, 2025August 15, 2025

Falling Into Blue

the sky, the ocean
and the shade too
all falling into blue

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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 August 20, 2025August 15, 2025

Pollen Painted

in the high heat
August fields fill with
goldenrod and dry grass

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Posted on August 18, 2025August 12, 2025

The Garden’s Guardian

presiding over
this convent of flowers
dedicated protector of insects and blooms

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