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Poem – Awakened
Scattered wisps of cloudsgive way to the first sunrise. Peaking over the horizon,shoreline rocks absorb each ray. Newly...
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Home is our True Being
Home is not just where you live and return each evening. Home is that place we hold close...
Poem – Night Becomes the Day
Standing on the front porch I watch the sun rise over the distant mountains and first light run...
Poem – Becoming Winter
For now I am the winter beneath the mask revealed beneath the cold water of the sea. Eyes...
Poem – Autumn Wind
Shadows from high-clouds in the early afternoon pass over our faces soaking in the autumn wind.
Poem – Awaken
I woke in the fields. The fields I have never seen. The fields black beneath the white sun....
Poem – Merging Scenes
Evening clouds cross the open fields, consuming empty space and trees. We watch their fluid movements and changing...
The Voice in the Forest
I pass trees on either side, deeper into the forest and further form the fields, leaving one realm...
Poem – Infinity
Removed from the city even for an afternoon layers of stress and blocks fall away, replaced by what...
Poem – Shadow
Scattered dreams forgotten at first light. A vague cloud follows. Trees bend at impossible angles the air wavers...
Poem – Perseverance
Storms rolled through last week. Weak and old trees toppled to the ground or fell into a neighbor...
Poem – What Sees in the Dark
Pre-dawn. Sliver of gradient orange into purple. Cloud-less. The forest stands tall merging with the sky. Cold breath....
Poem – Each Day
Each day is a chance to look beyond yesterday to take what we have learned into the present...