Relation with a Flower

We share many things, this Dutch Iris and I Both tall and slender, bask in warming weather Country of heritage by name together Blue edged with gold in the iris of my eye ~*~

Out Here Though…

We just got back from a forest retreat in a rustic cabin... no electricity, no running water, no gadgets.... Only us and the forest. Though it was only for a few days, the experience was significant in many ways. I hope to share more in the coming days as I integrate and process the experience, …

Encounters and Teachings: Of the Crane

~ Crane's wing sweeps floating like snowfall Sweetly poised, graceful dancer elegant hunter, steady watcher Bugling call shakes dust from the soul opening the inner sight to wondrous colors ~ Months ago, I was stunned into awed, motionless silence.  I had never heard the rattling duet of paired Sandhill Cranes, and all I could do …

Second Sight

Amazing wordplay..

Poesy plus Polemics

 

eyes within eyes
blessed and cursed
with two clarities
seeing what is
seeing what is to be
helpless witness
precognitive annalist
doomed to record
unchangeable future
as if it is past
forced to feed
today’s mind
here and now
on bread
yet to be baked
by the hands
of tomorrow
ensuring a slow
painful watch
on emergent
starvation
a foreshortened life
understood since
the day it was born

(originally posted December 2013)

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Pretty Bird, Pretty Bird – Haiku Catchoo! (Final Fifth)

Balanced lightly there On springy evergreen limb Ornamental perch Author's Notes... I have loved watching the birds at the feeders my dad keeps stocked with seed in the cold months ever since I can remember.  It is a habit now to notice birds on the ground, on the railings, in the sky, on the water, …

Winter Warmth – Haiku Catchoo! (Part III)

Tug- upsy-daisy! In friendly lap held snugly Warm in wintertime Author's Notes... Warmth is just one great reason to snuggle up as the weather turns colder; save energy, cuddle often.  Lovers, friends, and family ought to take the opportunities presented by the holiday season to get closer on all levels, in my not-so-humble opinion.  Closeness …