Contentment

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Contentment is challenging to describe and often difficult to experience.  This sense of well being, of needing nothing else at this moment seems to be something we all long for, but often have trouble finding.   Content, the base word, … Continued

Sometimes I hate the Sun

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It could have been any morning, But it wasn’t Familiar cup, warm with coffee Cradled in my artist’s hands My walk to the marsh Familiar earth Grasses move slightly But the dew drops stay Jewels on a slender stalk   … Continued

Church in the Woods

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      The air barely moves I sit in contemplation and prayer While the waking of the morning Initiates the introit   The sounds of water Join the orchestral bouquet Waves playing in the sea caves A Soft mallet … Continued

The Catch

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      Seagulls scatter Confetti images in the grand parade Churning, grinding engines Parting the serenity of silence Of early morning   Heading in now Masts awaken Sentries of the harbor Nets heavy and full Mammary glands of the … Continued

Morning Ritual

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  Sometimes a cup of coffee Is an absent minded ritual Filling the seams of another activity Grout in the mosaic tiles of life   Sometimes I would not be able to tell you What the experience is like The … Continued

Ancient Wisdom

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      Knowing beyond knowing, Ancient wisdom insists its truth Suspending stars and the moon Kaleidoscope, color and insight     Emerging wisdom, the lens opens Spiritual aperture turns without help, Fractured limiting fan unfolds Urgent swirling, flow, colliding   Sliding, … Continued

Promises

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    The milkweed seed lifts and sails On parachute so finely spun Promising the monarch Another day       A simple dance Shimmering waxy leaves Limbs bowing to the great one Turtles sunning on outstretched limb   And … Continued

Hesitation

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If I am awake the party begins I see how the trees dance Sway and shimmy The water waves flows, curls, crests and splashes The shadows play On borrowed surfaces So why not I? The earth moves Birds sing The … Continued

Thirsty

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The clouds wept Water droplets Suspended from leaves Shimmer slightly Rainbow orbs Cling And roll Then drop Invisible in their shattered form Wetting the earth’s whistle   Janet E. Hartwick Sterk