Poem – Into the Sun
I awoke that missing day disconnected and lost from what I thought I was and who I wanted...
Poem – Chasing the Light
Emerging from the past into the present I continue to pursue the future always chasing the light whether...
Poem – Accept What is Given
I awoke whole with an empty mind. I left the front door into the morning air filled with...
Poem – Wild
I now walk into the wild away from you and closer to the true being within, away from...
Poem – Roots
I walk the worn dirt path circling the overgrown fields where the winds have abated and the grass,...
Poem – Broken
I am broken and beneath the evening sun my pieces melt. In the moonlight I am made whole...
Robinson Jeffers – Carmel Point
The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses- How beautiful when...
John Haines – City of Orphans
I typically read and have been influenced by John Haines nature poems and memoirs, but this poem is...
The Voice in the Forest
I pass trees on either side, deeper into the forest and further form the fields, leaving one realm...
The Light Settling in the Woods
Old growth trees line a worn path cut from loggers decades before. The floor is covered with...
Poem – Let Go
There is something in the forest seen and not seen, the light scatters, ebbs, and flows. I am...
Poem – The Foundation of Each Day
Like a drone on autopilot I rise when the alarm cuts through the night with no thought or...
Retreat Vignettes – #2
Tall pine holds up the sky free of clouds as the sun passes overhead. I look beyond the...
Retreat Vignettes – #1
Moments the chaos is held at bay when the pine filled sky sways and the ravens visit and...
Poem – Where the Color Comes From
The lonely path tunneled through the daily routine and expectations. The tunnel became your gateway and hiding place,...