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Category Archives: Patience
The Sweetness of October Melons
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
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
Fallow Ground
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
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
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
Tanka for an Early Spring
endless water falls a Winter meditation dreaming of itself- Life swirls under the soil endless colors gathering
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Ubiquitous
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)
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
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
Life’s persistence mocks Winter’s most harsh-biting cold knowing they are One
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