Never Gone

 -------Never Gone-------

 

The sun's shine 

returns

again

 

After a few 

days of rain

 

Covered up 

like clouds

around

 

The light

that we each carry

 

Sometimes unseen

but never

ever gone.

 

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Autumn Worlds

 

-------Autumn Worlds-------

 

Gold on green

the goldenrod

 

Alongside oats

and clover

 

Where forest 

and field

 

Meet

an edge

 

Is made

unlike another

 

A world where worlds

interweave

 

And possibilities

emerge.

 

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Before Me

 

-------Before Me-------

 

Digging 

new beds

for a hillside garden

 

I can feel the hands

that dug here

before me

 

Their bodies in rhythm,

like music,

with the season

 

Move through me

and keep

me moving

 

Knees bent,

back straight,

bare feet upon the earth

 

A care-full gesture

to honor

this body

 

And those 

who have come

before me.

 

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Far Out

 

-------Far Out-------

 

Far out weeding

in a far off field

 

Alongside Heron 

and the frogs

 

Where there's room to move

and time to listen

 

I can be present 

 

With the plants

I've been tasked to thin

 

And the thoughts

within

 

My cluttered 

mind.

 

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Thunderstorm

 

-------Thunderstorm-------

 

A late Summer thunderstorm

makes room 

for early Autumn

 

Like a gardener planting 

and saving seeds

 

Bridging 

time 

in a way that remembers

 

The seasons

are ever-changing.

 

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