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Water on Stone
Tracking my years like water on stone, drip.. drip.. drip.. the hardest places dissolve to sand as stone opens to…
Easter
Bring me day in sunlit glory, vital earth and flowing tide. Bring me night, moonlit haunting, cry of owls and…
Dark Comfort
Warm before the fire I watch trees flower and gray valley skies soften in growing light. Neither cold nor hot…
Choirs of Earth
Pulled from the morass, I see evergreens in the distance and messages of earth alive in fading blooms of the…
Give Your Hand
Quiet the restless mind, still the surge of emotion. Let this hour belong to the One who grants the gift.…
Close Enough
Slow to awaken, slow to follow bear from winter’s cave, as redbuds leaf and plum trees flower the deep earth…
Armies of the Angel
Dragons of the defiled mind roar against spring tree flowers, breathe fire upon the sleeping. Death, death it is their…
Secrets of the Dawn
The slow light of morning slips into awakening with secrets of the dawn, of silence stored in mountain caves lined…
Slow Down
When snow covers the valley the time is here to slow down, to let earth’s winter rhythm seep into the…
The Hidden Stone
I shelter with trees below cold wet ground, what’s left above leafless, without color. Burrowing in soft earth, I find…
Silence of the Mountains
Into the quiet dark I commit my messengers, the soul survivors of desperate folly. Send word to the wanderers; they…
Taking Flight
Snow covered hills under winter’s blanket, where I wake in a foreign land with trees of ash and oak, bare…
Who Dare to Sing
Drunk on starlight I stumble in the temple, my voice loud in praise of Aldebaran and Sirius. I doubt I…
Winter Lyric
I rise and fall the ancient way, from root to leaf and back to earth; the road I tread these…
God’s Idea
In the quiet dark earth nurtures her future below the cold wet ground. Forests wait in embryo, plants and flowers…
Gift Forever
Christmas 2024 Voices joined in the dark, singing out the word of life, open and receive the birth of light, gift forever to the living.
Solstice Cathedral
Along the cracked sidewalks and traffic choked streets, beneath the winter barren of leafless trees, I gather the litter of holiness, tossed aside and left
River of Grace
Quiet as fallen leaves, I search the dawn for signs of belonging, signals of faith. Crows fill the rooftops, rain on wet streets, the droop
Waiting for the Signal
With darkness past its peak, sunlight charms the rain-soaked valley after weeks of clouded skies. Beneath the paved streets of departed forests, there is the
Let the Earth Approach
The night is clouded, close with rain, evergreens sway in shadow; darkness comforts. I let the earth approach, tree and tide, the sound of wind,
Braced Below Ground
White capped waves lift across the sea as winter storms blow in from the south. Bending to the force without breaking, wind strengthens root, trees
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