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Tag: sky

Posted on February 28, 2025February 15, 2025

Transcending

sometimes the sky
in all its moving beauty
rescues me from sorrow

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Posted on February 10, 2025February 6, 2025

With Less, More

white and grays and blues
the ground and branch and sky
expressing winter’s intricate simplicities

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Posted on January 20, 2025January 15, 2025

Blue Barn Door

open wide
like the sky
welcome in the sun

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Posted on January 7, 2025January 1, 2025

Bare Ground Blue Sky

opportunity taken
the farmer feeds
his fallow field

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Posted on December 23, 2024December 16, 2024

All As It Should Be

berries in tranquility
content against
the sky’s faint blue

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Posted on December 15, 2024December 14, 2024

The Shooting Stars Obscured

but oh the midnight moon
an echo of the sun
throwing rings of gold

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Posted on December 13, 2024December 7, 2024

All On One Fine Day

cardinal in the tree top
a hawk gliding home
the eagle riding thermals

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Posted on December 8, 2024December 7, 2024

A Sliver Is Enough

the storm recedes
the moon appears
a hook for hope

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Posted on December 6, 2024January 30, 2025

Fragile Blue

winter day
a robin’s egg sky
nests in the trees

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Posted on December 2, 2024November 29, 2024

To Be Counted On

morning is a certainty
the colors of her sky
an eternal mystery

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Posted on November 26, 2024November 20, 2024

Clouds Above The Palisades

sunshine spotlights
the bluff face
as day dips into shadow

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Posted on November 25, 2024November 20, 2024

Touch

the fingerprints of trees
after tracing the sky
leaves caress the ground

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Posted on November 6, 2024January 2, 2025

Still Sweet

Maine’s blueberry sky
not yet
bittered by cold

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Posted on October 19, 2024October 7, 2024

Change

life and time
always on the move
let us be their gracious guests

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Posted on August 4, 2024July 25, 2024

Reaching Past The Rooftops

ambition
is the weed’s
decree

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Posted on June 23, 2024June 16, 2024

Soar

once the updraft
is found
flight is effortless

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Posted on May 26, 2024May 20, 2024

As The Sky Moves

freedom
washes over me
I am untethered from worry

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Posted on March 31, 2024March 25, 2024

Faith

still beneath the surface of sight
yet distinctly present
leaf buds and spring

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Posted on March 2, 2024February 26, 2024

Shy Sky

the day ended so softly
I almost missed the kiss
that was her parting blush

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Posted on February 23, 2024February 18, 2024

Coupling

lilac leaf buds
a double flamed torch
shimmering with desire for spring

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Posted on February 20, 2024February 12, 2024

Beneath This Big Blue Sky

long shadows
reaching for the long river
just beyond the tree line

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Posted on January 15, 2024January 12, 2024

Party Line

intermingling conversations
back to the old days
of sharing the line

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Posted on December 29, 2023December 17, 2023

Heaven At Your Feet

reach down
and touch
treetops and the sky

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Posted on December 18, 2023December 13, 2023

Replenishment

thirsty for color
I gulped
the blue sky

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Posted on December 8, 2023November 30, 2023

Three Lines

the snow, the mist, the clouds
past, present, future
the weather writes a tercet

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Posted on November 27, 2023November 19, 2023

Carried

traveling the lines
across a brilliant sky
voices seeking hearts

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Posted on November 20, 2023November 19, 2023

The Night Sky Is A Closet

the crescent moon
a hanger where
I drape my daydreams

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Posted on November 9, 2023October 28, 2023

Always

the two at once
joy and sorrow
and the search for ways
to befriend both

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Posted on November 3, 2023October 22, 2023

Space Enough

I am widened
by the ocean’s horizon
so much space for my soul to roam

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Posted on October 29, 2023October 22, 2023

The Transfer Of Color

trees emptied of leaves
so an autumn sunset
colors the sky

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