Tag: nature

On the sultry summer night

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Walking felt like gliding
Wind sweeping slowly through my hair
Carrying the heady scent of roses

Only a sliver of moon shone
Lighting the way
On the long forgotten path

Hedgerows hid the night fairies
Stars held lovers’ secrets
I only had to walk to you to make it all true

We’d laugh at the stories
Sing to the sweet night music
Dance to the wind

I must be getting close
My heart is gaining a staccato beat
While my breath is just out of reach

Will it always be like this
My thoughts scattered to other planes
When I think of you

There is the glow of home
Just ahead and I am so full
With warm thoughts on this summer night

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Diffused Morning

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Dappled and diffused
the light trickled over me slowly
I wanted to curl up and turn away
but it shone everywhere

Breezes gently blew leaves on trees
the grasses below stirring
shaking off the dew
just as I shook off sleep

Whether I was ready or not
it would come
the day, another challenge
if I could only open my eyes

Insistent, the sun kept pouring out
dropping harsh rays on my heavy eyes
there was nothing for it
except to submit, accept, rise

Body aching, stretching, moving
reaching toward new places and faces
struggling with words and worries
only the sun reminds all are welcome

Awake, try, open your eyes
a landscape is awaiting
my presence, my ideas
to finish another day, a gift

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Trees

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“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read, and receive my company.”

– Thomas Jefferson

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Light in a Jar

I wished on a star but came up empty
But my jar was still full of light.
When I tried to chase the music I fell down the hill
And landed in a verdant green valley
That tried to lull me into peace
But I didn’t buy it
And used the stones to step across
To the charred remains
Of someone else’s dreams.
But I understood this shell
This empty wreckage
Because it’s what I carry every day
Sometimes hidden sometimes so painfully aware
To anyone who is sucker enough to ask how am I.
But until I can answer honestly
I will keep wishing on stars
And chasing the music
And fill up on words and images that make sense and don’t hurt.

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Lost Within

I thought I would be lost in the chaos
That I had to have order and precision and discipline
That all things had to be in neat rows
In order
Including my dreams
I had no idea that there is a beautiful tableau
When you just let go
That nature forms its own patterns
That we can live those exquisite swirls and lines

But I walked awhile all alone
And saw grasses blowing in a tempest
And water sluicing downhill over rocks
The wind and water drawing perfect lines over all they touched
The sky looked a tangle of clouds and the trees a blur of leaves
But I had no complaint
It looked like chaos
But I knew there were patterns
I just had to look differently

So I let myself float on possibility
Let words flow from my fingers
Embraced a little chaos
Saw lines unfurling in ways I had not predicted
The wind and water swirled
And I felt the strings loosen around me
Fewer tethers
And it was beautiful
And I was where I needed to be.

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