Love Soil

 

-------Love Soil-------

 

A seed of resentment 

can quickly become 

 

A garden 

full 

of weeds

 

If not tended 

with intention 

to cultivate 

 

The love soil 

underneath.

 

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Bend and Breathe

 

-------Bend and Breathe-------

 

When fear 

moves through my body 

like a storm

 

I stop where I can 

and listen to the wind.

 

"Bend 

and breathe" 

my branches, 

 

Swaying,

whisper

 

"And let our leaves 

make music 

with wind."

 

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Toward the Ocean

 

-------Toward the Ocean-------

 

No matter another's effort 

to undermine 

our direction

 

The river within us 

will still meander,

 

Fork and fall

but never straighten

 

As we move

toward 

the ocean.

 

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Waken the Green

 

-------Waken the Green-------

 

In prelude 

to the storm

the wind comes warm

 

And our shadows 

disappear.

 

Then with a kiss

like thunder

the rains begin

 

And waken the green

from slumber.

 

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Goodnight, Moon

 

-------Goodnight, Moon-------

 

Tonight 

the peeper frogs are singing

 

Goodnight, Moon

Hello, glorious Spring.

 

Thank you, 

I sing along with them

 

Sweet Moon 

and Spring

 

Thank 

you.

 

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Equinox

 

-------Equinox-------

 

Patience is a temperament

akin to middle Spring

 

When nighttime meets the length of day

 

And the tender green 

of possibilities

 

Emerges slowly

 

From the dark,

waking Earth.

 

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Roundness of Time

 

-------Roundness of Time-------

 

While mulching 

with hay 

 

I remember the grasses

 

And their meadows 

of golden 

Autumn.

 

There is 

a slowness 

in Spring

 

Of a precious kind

 

That helps 

remember 

the roundness of time.

 

As the meadows 

return 

 

To gold in Autumn

 

And their grasses 

dry 

to hay.

 

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