Category Archives: Patience

The Sweetness of October Melons

Posted on October 1, 2018 by janemwoodman

Sugared juices run across my palm, I catch my breath and shut my eyes —the sweetness of October melon— two seconds—less—sufficed to glide the long and gleaming knife through its netted skin through its softest orange flesh and now it … Continue reading →

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June Garden Sonnet

Posted on June 29, 2018 by janemwoodman

Now the gracious growing time begins Reprieve from first-stage hardest work now done. A breathing space sees just the rain and sun That make the gardens’ fruits swell in their skins. Some black-green velvet – others simply green Some still … Continue reading →

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Fallow Ground

Posted on April 20, 2018 by janemwoodman

With mind now fallow as the frozen soil, I look for solitude’s own recompense As breathing matches breezes, human foil To Nature as her seasons are to sense. Ideas rot from too extended waiting As fast as seeds in frigid … Continue reading →

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Persistence

Posted on April 10, 2018 by janemwoodman

An open mirror to the sky her sudden scudding clouds— A lake rippled by gusts of breathless fascination— I am all surface: depths of old days foundations for wavelets expressing breezes exhaled by a loving Earth. Spring has wandered into … Continue reading →

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For the Restless Gardener in Winter

Posted on February 5, 2018 by janemwoodman

Return to present breath, where light and life Relieve the anxious mind of what it bears So needlessly in constant, fruitless strife Thus losing native peace to pointless cares. There’s weedy ground to blister gardeners’ hands In June, but see … Continue reading →

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Tanka for an Early Spring

Posted on January 29, 2018 by janemwoodman

endless water falls a Winter meditation dreaming of itself- Life swirls under the soil endless colors gathering

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Ubiquitous

Posted on January 28, 2018 by janemwoodman

If Winter is withdrawal of Light and its twin, Life, pulling deep down into themselves to wait for the grace of their own return, a reply to Summer in dark terms, it is so to gather strength for the great … Continue reading →

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Saved (tanka)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by janemwoodman

scarred torn wood once lost preserved with glue and pressure makes planting tables where new life and fresh green growth sing joyful running seasons

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River

Posted on January 17, 2018 by janemwoodman

River of light all colors run- no blending but as a rainbow- Runs past bare rock and deep soil alike in its attention- We learn in long age to seed our own colors no mud clods disturbing brilliance- To make … Continue reading →

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Chard haiku

Posted on January 12, 2018 by janemwoodman

Life’s persistence mocks Winter’s most harsh-biting cold knowing they are One

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