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Sky and Root

Sky and Root

Waning crescent in the morning sky marks the slow turn to lunar dark. Autumn strengthens as the green world lets…

Atonement

Atonement

Autumn of the soul when memory repents and the fruits of judgment drop into the dark earth of forgiveness.  …

Breathing Silence

Breathing Silence

A murder of crows across the sky in early light, tide low, rocks exposed, sun creeping through morning clouds. The…

Open Doors

Open Doors

The green world breathes the last of summer’s softness, while the souls of winter are lost in warmth. Tall grass…

Storehouse

Storehouse

Slow the turning to cool air and longer nights. Light on the water changes color, the green world burnished to…

Tree Branch and Crow

Tree Branch and Crow

Crows fill the windswept shoreline, black silhouettes against the sky. The sea is gunmetal gray, with sunlight breaking through rose-tinted…

Wingless Angel

Wingless Angel

Lifetimes longer than the age of stone, even from sea’s beginning, I counsel with tides, trace runes on the sky,…

Silent Stone

Silent Stone

Earth trembles in rain soaked ground, yet the sea is calm, the old trees heavy with many winters. The peace…

Soul Fishing

Soul Fishing

The sunlit path, orange-gold on the sea, one lone fisherman trolling the depths for the wisdom that might free you…

Quiet Sea

Quiet Sea

After a deep ebb tide the sea slowly floods, covering the mystery with saltwater healing. My heart rests between rise…

Awake to the World

Awake to the World

Into the wordless silence I spirit-walk the new day, bare feet to ground, eyes open in early light. Shaped and…

Face Unveiled

Face Unveiled

In silent dark the soul rests in solace hidden from city lights. The healing night and flooding sea, God’s face…

One Thought

One Thought

Today there is one path, one tide flowing before me. The greater powers move sun and moon, earth and sea,…

Ancient Shores

Ancient Shores

Greet the morning where stone touches tide, quiet as mountains rimming the sea; discord dissolved, healed the fractures, heart cleansed…

Surrender

Surrender

The briny smell of weed clinging to bare rock, swirls of water rushing south as ebb tide drains the inland…

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Sea Island Brooding

Pale grasses yellow, wind-cured after months of rain. Waves lash the headland beneath gunmetal clouds. Sea birds flash white in sharp blades of sunlight; distant

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Dark Water Fishing

Light breaks on the sea as men fish the ebb. Boats drift backward on the tide’s pull while I hunt darker water, baiting my hook

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First Altar

Drawn by a timeless signal, I’m caught in a tide of soul-deep gravity. I leave the stone church for the temple of origin— surrendering prayer

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Ancient Stories

Snow-laden mountains across the ebbing tide— a swollen moon floats in the sky. Soft purple camas wave and rise through spring grass, warm sunlight bathes

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Learning to Breathe

The dark tide surges shoreward, cresting white on crags of stone in night’s cold embrace. Stirred by the sea, my heart swells with the throbbing

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Seeds of the Anointed

Howling for justice while trampling hope, curses swell with fury under dark morning skies. On this day of choosing let the river of blessing flow

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