Poetry
New Poem: Our College Tour
Because I’ve both
served so much
and held back so relentlessly
she’s taking responsibility for her choices
New Poem: I Think I’m Growing Up
I’m living so deeply congruent it seems there is nothing I want “to get away with.”
New Poem: Which Ant are You?
Apparently there are two types of ants.
They differ because of fundamentally opposite environments.
New Poem: Suddenly it is Spring
Like it knew the day on the calendar, suddenly it is spring.
Yesterday the grass was brown and brittle, dreary and drab.
Today it is moist and muddy, gentle and greening.
Make the Ordinary Come Alive
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is a way of foolishness.
A Poem by Dawna Markova
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
New Poem: Feed the Soil
Poem about children being like plants; you’ve got to cultivate the soil they are in…
New Poem: Blue Shadows on Snow
Blue shadows look like piecework in an art quilt or thin indigo washes in a watercolor
Poems Hide
I’ll tell you a secret: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Naomi Shihab Nye
Jobina’s Haiku
Here are some haiku by my friend Jobina (Check out her blog here)… Life is not just mine. It’s all about how Love does shine – through all, for All. Confusion, mayhem upheaval … ‘til dove alights, peace breaks, love wakens. Lost in my own trap, I think I’m done, zoned out, gone …. then … Read more
New Poem: Your Innocence is Your Protection
Your Innocence is Your Protection You’ve done nothing wrong. You have obeyed a higher tribunal. The charges are ridiculous, trumped up, and manipulated. Human nature, craving personal dominance instead of shared dominion is jealous and afraid of spiritual power and systematically discerned integrity, applied. You were cruelly cast out, into the lion’s den, so … Read more
New Poem: Feeling Grateful for My Husband
Feeling Grateful for My Husband He’s good at a lot of things. He knows the Bible inside and out and is my go-to theologian. The King James Bible sounds perfectly normal when he reads it aloud. He has been growing plants organically since before most people knew what that meant. His garden is amazing, and … Read more
New Poem: Spirit at Work
Spirit at Work Spirit, as a synonym of God is a hard one to wrap your head around. It is not at all ghostly or phantasmagorical but actually more like a basketball cheerleader. I am beginning to think of Spirit as conscious divine energy. Both types are expressed in me: potential and kinetic, in equal … Read more
New Poem: Back to the New Normal
Back to the New Normal Open nesting is challenging. The revolving door brings in gusts of cold air and crunchy-crisp leaf-litter as well as delight. So very good to see them, but your world clutters and clangs to a stop like musical chairs in suspension waiting frozen, like in statue tag as the house becomes … Read more