contemplative haiku
Hiya… I’m back from the north, where there is more snow here than there. mmmm. Just plain freezing cold without the beauty and wonder of a snowy landscape. Kinda weird. Last night when I settled...
View ArticleSTILLNESS GIVES IT WATCH
I was asked by one of my online teachers, Christine, from Abbey of the Arts, to consider a word to dedicate to this year. A word that might embrace a feeling I have, or need to deepen in. A word that...
View Articledrink freely from life’s giving
I ‘stole’ this line from from Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner. www.abbeyofthearts.com The original sentence is this; “Drink freely from the life you have been given.” I made it ‘mine’...
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Wholy Grail. This is a summer of gathering letting go, remembering, moving, finding a new groove This is summer of fear found fear release, surrendering. making space for new possibilities This is...
View ArticleHaiku for these Days.
Wholy Grail. Make all your days Good Each moment a resurrection The Full moon rises Tagged: A POEM A DAY, abbey of the arts, Ace of Cups, ASCENSION, Be Hair Now, JEANNE ADWANI, JEANNE BEAUCHAMP,...
View ArticleRISING
In the cave dark and deep Cold gives lies to what is thought lost The heat of the heart was pulled to the North where winter held her Hostage to the frigid deceit . A flickered shiver of a flame on a...
View ArticleYes against all Odds
A futile No rises to all that is Yes When the battered down starves The slow climb back to the good self . Such thirst for that dried cracked tongue That has let silence erode life’s sweetness Drained...
View ArticleGIVING PAUSE… a pantoum
This pantoum poem is from a prompt from Christine, The Abbess of www.Abbeyofthearts.com . The prompt is: A reflective question: Where do you find space for silence and solitude so that you can...
View ArticleThe Hard and EAse of Flow
Haiku Flow is not working Paradox of opposites Oxymoron sky ~ And then some ~ There is sense to a flow that gives to a natural ease When going with the flow finds calm in each moment . Till the...
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