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Tag: trees

Posted on December 11, 2024December 7, 2024

Sunflower Fence

the barn remembers
smiling yellow faces
heads now bent with snow

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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 7, 2024December 3, 2024

Congregating Calm

quiet fell
the garden hushed
enters into camaraderie with solitude

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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 5, 2024December 3, 2024

Winter Is A Queen Of White

everything touched
with her scepter of cold
commanded to dazzle and glisten

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Posted on November 28, 2024November 23, 2024

To Choose Gratitude

thank you for the first snow
thank you for shelter from the cold
thank you for the few remaining leaves
thank you for the company of trees

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Posted on November 27, 2024November 23, 2024

Making Sense

amidst inversion and reflection
trees and leaves
still perceived

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Posted on November 24, 2024November 13, 2024

Sunset Cinder

we savor the day’s embers
as November night
shutters the afternoon

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Posted on November 22, 2024November 13, 2024

Settling On, Settling In

the river still runs
but the cold has dug
its fingers in the ground

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Posted on November 20, 2024November 13, 2024

So Many Goodbyes

to the leaves, colors and blossoms
a tender farewell to each
until we meet again

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Posted on November 18, 2024November 10, 2024

Conversation Wanders

our feet
in the leaves
do all the talking now

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Posted on November 16, 2024November 10, 2024

Wistful Windows

I see a longing
in the barns’ window eyes
unsure if it is theirs or mine

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Posted on November 14, 2024November 10, 2024

The Old Orchard

abiding change
resolute in bearing fruit
apples in community

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Posted on November 12, 2024November 3, 2024

Isle

I send my dreams
away to play on the island
in the bay

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Posted on November 10, 2024November 3, 2024

Falling Fast

a flurry
of oak leaves
hurries towards winter

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Posted on November 9, 2024November 3, 2024

Forest Bones

time’s skeleton
the sun bleached bones
of prodigious trees

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Posted on November 5, 2024October 29, 2024

Autumn’s Wealth

the light
now gilds
most everything

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Posted on November 1, 2024October 29, 2024

Woodland Tapestry

all the movement
and colors of fall
woven into this moment

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Posted on October 29, 2024October 18, 2024

Moving On

as the wind whisks away
leaves and clouds
new intimacies of the landscape divulged

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Posted on October 25, 2024October 18, 2024

Gathering And Traveling

ascending the ridge
a clustering of geese
search for their formation

leaders emerge
vying for the point position
of their traveling “v”

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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 October 17, 2024October 7, 2024

Revealing All The Tiny Details Of Connection

the space that grows
between each leaf
coaxes sight into insight

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Posted on October 9, 2024September 29, 2024

One Step, Then Another

the last step taken
on this journey
is the first step of the next

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Posted on October 5, 2024September 27, 2024

Above Below

the sky and the river
together holding
onto the clouds

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Posted on September 28, 2024September 23, 2024

Open To Change

there goes autumn
passing by
the back door

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Posted on September 26, 2024September 16, 2024

Come Sit

watch the slant of light
tilt us
towards autumn

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Posted on September 24, 2024September 16, 2024

Small White Goat

having cleared the field
of thistle and thorn
a full belly-ed rest

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Posted on September 7, 2024August 27, 2024

Temple

spires of the old tree
the mossy sacred stump
holy ground

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Posted on September 1, 2024August 26, 2024

Mist Rise On The Meadow

the curtain rises
on the play
of another summer day

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Posted on August 28, 2024August 18, 2024

Wait Together

fog has made
the world small
but still big enough

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