Grace

-------Grace-------

At times 

when the world 

all feels too much

Like beauty

has been took 

away

There are lilacs in bloom

Or 

some 

iteration

Of gracefulness

to bring 

us home.

-------

Joy I Am

-------Joy I Am-------

 

Aspen leaves

and Osprey 

wings

 

Both have their way on wind

 

That moves

me too

 

To resurrect

 

The joy

I am

within.

 

-------

Ocean

 

-------Ocean-------

 

The grass the height 

of dandelion

 

Dark green 

among 

the gold

 

Too young to cut 

for hay 

so best

 

To rest 

and watch 

the wind like waves

 

Upon 

this pasture ocean.

 

-------

 

Rejoice

 

-------Rejoice-------

 

A break in the rain

and the songs 

return

 

Time enough 

for Dandelion

 

To kick up 

their heels

with the Sun.

 

-------

To the Water

 

-------To the Water-------

 

In the dusk 

approaching

 

The peepers sing

 

An ode 

to the water

 

An ode to spring.

 

-------

Very Well

 

-------Very Well-------

 

It had never

occurred 

to me

 

Before the hoe 

found my hands

 

That the weeds 

of life 

need not take over

 

But when tended to

not cussed or avoided

 

Can very well

become 

like friends.

 

-------

Stars That Fill

 

-------Stars That Fill-------

 

Like the stars that fill 

a new moon sky

 

The light 

each hold

within us

 

Is ever-burning

and always there

 

Just awaiting 

the world 

to see.

 

-------

Octavia

 

-------Octavia-------

 

Dark clouds

blue sky

thunder

birdsong

Spring

 

Change

she said

God

is 

Change.

 

-------

Sway II

 

-------Sway II-------

 

There is stillness 

within

the excitements of spring

 

To the humble

and the wild hearted

 

Who have tuned 

themselves

to the rhythms of nature,

 

Who sway like Cedar 

and do not break

 

When the winds 

of change 

return.

 

-------

Middle Spring

 

-------Middle Spring-------

 

On this day

of middle Spring

 

I celebrate the promise

and the possibilities

we hold within

 

As the world I've known

breaks open,

 

Remembering

that change

can be

 

An opportunity

to grow.

 

-------

Swallow

 

-------Swallow-------

 

It is easy to blame

 

Easier yet 

to fall behind

 

That stagnant kind of hope

 

The kind that wishes,

complicitly still

 

Just waiting for things to change.

 

The swallows nest 

does not build itself

 

But the swallow

 

Who with grass

and hallowed mud

 

Makes believe their home

 

Form taken 

through imagination

 

The world of which we dream.

 

-------

 

Sugar Season

 

-------Sugar Season-------

 

Springbirds sing

among the snow drifts

 

In the face

of wind 

and cold

 

As if to encourage

our tree buds open

 

And the joy 

inside

to rise.

 

-------

Open

 

-------Open-------

 

Through colds return

 

I can hear 

the spring

 

Quiet 

yet 

 

Still unfolding

 

Like the steady 

reminder

 

Through conflict 

and ease

 

Of Loves commitment

 

To encourage 

the seed,

 

We are carrying

together,

 

Open.

 

-------

 

Soften the Ground

 

-------Soften the Ground-------

 

The rains 

have come

in kind return

 

And soften 

the ground 

for spring,

 

For the seeds 

we have 

been saving

 

For this

moment

in time.

 

-------

Trespass

 

-------Trespass-------

 

Given the times

I am called to ask,

 

Who profits 

from the land enclosed?

 

Property,

its borders and law,

 

Has kept the human 

mind confined

 

Behind 

a wall of trespass.

 

Dis-remembered 

is the memory

 

That once we gathered

without threat

 

Without fear

 

Of our 

arrest.

 

Now POSTED signs

protect the mines

 

And the poisoners 

of water,

 

While the masses 

long to be free again,

 

To live, to love, 

to prosper.

 

So called to ask

in these times am I,

 

What happens 

when all is sold?

 

-------