The air’s breath of spring,
a lightness, our easy smiles —
tulips in a vase
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Haiku: Breath of Spring
Tag: poetry
Haiku: From the Heart
A robin singing
from his heart, the only way —
living the moment
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Haiku: Still Mind
Observe the morning
sun bringing the world alive —
A still mind will see
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Dead of Winter — The Cheesesellers Wife (Reblog)
I have two poems (Lilbourne and Summer Queen) in this great Anthology from Milk and Cake Press. It examines the dark, the supernatural, and the uncanny of a long, cold winter. As we move from the depths of winter toward spring, and from pandemic isolation to a more normal life, these poems may be the […]
Dead of Winter — The Cheesesellers Wife
Tree — A Poem
Tree,
they say you’d have a story to tell;
the things you must have seen
unrecorded by Man,
his story not being the same.
But why should you tell me?
If Odin was nailed to you
for days and nights,
his self imposed agony
for insight and divination,
then why should I find those runes
among this moss and muck?
I’d have to stay here a lifetime,
my back to the bark
to hear the whole tale,
whispered softly on the wind
around your mangled roots,
through these open spaces,
your gentle spirit’s presence —
amid the silence of seasons,
of years.
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