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Breathing Silence
A murder of crows across the sky in early light, tide low, rocks exposed, sun creeping through morning clouds. The…
Open Doors
The green world breathes the last of summer’s softness, while the souls of winter are lost in warmth. Tall grass…
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
Crows fill the windswept shoreline, black silhouettes against the sky. The sea is gunmetal gray, with sunlight breaking through rose-tinted…
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
Earth trembles in rain soaked ground, yet the sea is calm, the old trees heavy with many winters. The peace…
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
After a deep ebb tide the sea slowly floods, covering the mystery with saltwater healing. My heart rests between rise…
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
In silent dark the soul rests in solace hidden from city lights. The healing night and flooding sea, God’s face…
One Thought
Today there is one path, one tide flowing before me. The greater powers move sun and moon, earth and sea,…
Ancient Shores
Greet the morning where stone touches tide, quiet as mountains rimming the sea; discord dissolved, healed the fractures, heart cleansed…
Surrender
The briny smell of weed clinging to bare rock, swirls of water rushing south as ebb tide drains the inland…
For These Moments
Moonstruck beauty of the sea, wind-driven from flood tide’s peak, chased south along the old salt veins of gravity and…
Only So Much Time
Black silhouettes of trees against dark night beauty, tidal rip of moon and sea. I lay down the weights of…
Starlit Home
As if we understood, the stars sing their ancient melody, while the moon keeps her soft vigil, faithful in love. Our desires gently laid aside,
Risen from Root
Easter 2026 The days lengthen with morning light, as plum tree flowers, risen from root beneath the city street, assure the faithful life will not
Talisman
In the rolling hills rising from the Snake, a ranch nestles far from the road, a green hush folded in the land, grazing cattle in
Night Sky Message
“As light travels, and silence heals, the hand of God brightens the night sky,” a message written in code, lit with one spark of distant
Between Worlds
Sitting in darkness, I live between worlds of day and night, opening passages in the earth house, as I quietly render the awakened and holy
Keeping Watch
Moon lover, devotee of the stars, I keep watch on the winter sky, welcoming darkness where light burns brightest, and stars sing to the children
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