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Listen Listen, to life unfolding like sea Live at present, with moving winds Savor—do not worry of boding forth In winter, glean on nectar of suga Breath, slowly, Nor’easter dancin 7 4
Transfiguration Hope is a design of expanding, uto Hope is a genteel medicine of fair ’Tis magick An emblem of authentic truth in wh By and by, vibrantly cherished joy 8 4
Not Least At All Dear “least of these” I am oft so kind, I pray Tho some not so kind, I shutter s It’s hard to do It’s hard to let the heart not gro 3 4
Yellowstone 2 bear stops, of grizzly grey and Mamma Black, and cubs, enjoying a Geysers bubble; pressure ignited Hot boiling dew rises as bison tak Springs run hot 2 1
Death Hills The death hills rolled in clay Silvery, sheen and sunken stones They seem to whisper amongst a dar As night lights lushly soak earth’ There is history written upon the 5 1
Old Birch Tree •From the genus Betula; (Betula a I enjoy a quacking aspen, a larch, Yet, none I enjoy more than a Bet ’Twas nightly moons gleaming-away, Serenity, amongst a scurry of nigh 3 4
Autumn Dreams *Fall is the breath of nature’s lo Burgundy leaflets ignite A chilled crisp of dawn in Fall I Candles, warm & musk, invite Warm beneath my grip is a tantaliz 6 4
Earth is Magic Rain sings as it splashes earthy v The air moves as with our universe She whispers her thoughts where se Streams carve earth, singing to mo As souls' yearn for a dreamer’s dr 2 1
Finding Truth Beneath our feet abides real, tang Soil is layers deep and over our h It is God’s silent Promenade So much truth is abiding therein Truth in a warm light hugging our 8 2
Spring Forward Set clocks forward Ring all the bell chimes Like morning alarms jump starting This is how morning glory sings Lifting up earth’s magic within fr 7 3
Owl Seeing true an otherworldly Watchful eyes—peering oracle An unblinking methodical Nigh—dusk awakens night’s kingly Tending ruler of eventide 11 5
BIRTH Spring was our birth A season of airy hycinths and viol Summer produced a jungle A juncture, wild and spellbound by Autumn relinquished a solemn breez 7 1
The Inner Self I see you Standing before your reflection I see you Inside your reflection Inside a mirror 3 3
Lights of Winter’s Magic Dawn of north—nature’s winter Musings in Arctic sky Oh, ye merry dancers sublime! Ripping night’s black glass eye Streaming upon equinoxes 8 4
Nothing Has Changed Remember when our love first start Together we made perfect sense We walked the same stride and I w We have babies now, and they keep I will love them no matter how old 9 4
DREAMS Tonight, dreams await a slumbering I pull my blankets tight beneath m My every thought stirs like windch As whilful shutters on breathing s This is when all my dreams stand r 8 2
LOVE’S PATH Love is a mangled, dotty road with Crooked is her path at times, surr Love travels far, through her path In patience, love finds heaven wit Because, wherever darkness goes th 1 3
Writing Spain Of native words my tongue in Engl I long to sail with caballitos de To admire Mediterranean blue To sink into tides where beaches m Architecture old as bristle coned 6 2
YOU You were once ashes of molten, bur Now, you are star dust bursting th Y-O-U are diamonds forged within You are celestial fountainheads in You are a soothing center, rooted 3 2
Sakura Sakura—a sacred wisp of cherry blo She is dressed in sanguine grace; Arrayed in dresses of spring tide A Somei Yoshino—weeping, billow o We trace our lives to her edges of 2 1
Earth Magic Aye, a magic dust reflecting off i A starry ring burns upon a night s I barely touch her, like dreams al An invisible clock chimes in many Silhouetted earth shadows embark u 11 1
Lady of the Sea Enchantments of a mystic deep Fabled creature of sea A veritable truth she keeps ’Tis a voice of larks’ glee In rippling shoals of wavy blue 9 3
Eternal Pages My thoughts forever provoke emotio Sometimes they sting with truth, t ’Tis my fate to live until my ink Time to create again—to paint, to I stamp my singing breath to parch 5 4
How Do I Love Myself? How do I love myself? I find myself—bleeding heart and r I sing to my heart, yearning to st Torn—I long to mend her broken sk I long to stitch my soul back into 10 4
Orchestrate An orchestrated dream of symohonic Gliding feather flanked pens, like A mind’s generating seeds of color Stamping notes on pale paper; the We are wordsmiths, beating life in 4 1
Tīgras Drawn with a burnished ink—a Tige An illuminating spirit of élan ele An agile grace unseen in cloaking A quiet gallop of balletic grace His eyes like lanterns in sanguine 3 1
From Dust and Ash A thunder and lightning's dance st Life moving swiftly, like drifting ’Tis the luster of a barren wilder Thus, she dreams of what hides wit Dashing to corners strewn by unpav 1
Shangri-la Tides I, so long for Shangri-la tides c My heart's deepest whims thus desi Therein I walk roads gold, herald Jasper, jeweled by jade forests an Sappheiros, a holy stone wisely ad 2 4
DAWN Today was dawn as chirping birds p Yellow, blue, and corn husked in c Their’s was a fast and fleeting be Today was dawn as butterflies skir Shadows slowly became erased by hi 4 2
The Magic in Fairytales A magic rose A glass slipper With these please cloth me A poisoned Apple A thimble’s prick 6 4
Pink Lagoon Fairy-rose lagoon A prim blush of sweetest pith Innocence in heart Pink, calming lagoon A crux of gentility 4 4
Stand Still I reach for gold in a billion stra Tears long for my soul’s rapture a Treading stronger waves I go—they I reach for a sun’s unreachable hu A spirit whispers, ‘STAND STI 2 2
