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Poem – Fracture 74 (Fire)
into the flames the willow tree burns smoldering leaves melt from the crown dripping into the snow. I...
Poem – Captured Halos
The black morning hides tall pine trees rising against the star filled sky. The silence broken only by...
Poem – The Ancients
Scattered across the window Overlooking the rocky outline Of the lake shore. Cast from the memories of thousand...
Poem – Emerging
Emerging from the forest through the last barrier of this life, beasts of the past intertwined with shadows...
Trees and the True Home
The solitude and calm of a northern MN forest is an inviting and welcome break from the city....
Poem – Sense of All
And in the evening light we chase the floating particles, each a piece of ourselves set free from...
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Poem – Rebirth
At the top of the mountain beyond the pass I stopped and looked back at the path I...
Poem – What Remains
What remains shrouded in smoke behind the veil we created? What is left when the empty field clears...
Poem – No Words
“No words”, as the sky burns and we watch from another place. “No words”, as I remember a...
Poem – A Season in Hell
A season in hell has passed as I rose through the fractures in the liquid earth and woke...
Poem – Cleansed Through Smoke and Fire
On the earth I walk with light steps and place fallen branches in the pit. To the sky...
Poem – What is this Fire We Walk Within?
I don’t need words and pages to explain the concept of hell – just being human, just living...
Poem – Fire
Winter is finally put to rest, for now, as the sky turns black and the forest bends in...
Poem – Layered Sky
Layered autumn sky like the waves rising from the horizon minutes before landing at the shore. Sky layered...
Perspective
As the wind blows across sand, rocks, and driftwood I marvel at the change within me that I...