To Earth

 

-------To Earth-------

 

I have learned a lot 

from the trees

 

In our slow 

return 

toward winter

 

Like how to embrace 

and not avoid

 

The changes 

that are bound 

to come

 

From fecund spring 

to the gold and green 

 

And back 

again 

to earth.

 

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Sway

 

-------Sway-------

 

The oak trees 

sing 

a certain song

 

Without their leaves 

in winter

 

A swaying hymn

like a prayer 

of thanks

 

To the light

now waning.

 

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Of Which We Dream

 

-------Of Which We Dream-------

 

I can see the snow

that is soon 

to come

 

Falling now

atop the mountains.

 

The future 

can feel

so far away

 

And yet

in some ways near

 

In the dreams we dream

and moves 

we make

 

Toward 

the world

we long to live in.

 

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Lay to Sleep

 

-------Lay to Sleep-------

 

Soon 

the snow 

is going to come

 

And lay to sleep 

the garden

 

A blanket 

upon 

the resting child

 

Of all that we 

have planted

 

Every seed 

and sprout,

root and tree

 

Nothing more

now we can do

 

But hold 

their light 

til Spring.

 

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Cover Crop

 

-------Cover Crop-------

 

The cover crops 

are growing

 

Like weeds that we have planted

 

Tending 

the wound

 

That is uncovered ground

 

With roots

and leaves

 

Who hold the green

 

Through the dark

between

 

Til spring.

 

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