Our 15th Poetry Party! I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your [...]
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“The Light Comes Brighter”
The light comes brighter from the east; the caw
Of restive crows is sharper on the ear.
A walker at the river’s edge may hear
A cannon crack announce an early thaw.
The sun cuts deep into the heavy drift,
Though still the guarded snow is winter sealed,
At bridgeheads buckled ice begins to shift,
The river overflows [...]
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The Hammock
When I lay my head in my mother’s lap
I think how day hides the star,
the way I lay hidden once, waiting
inside my mother’s singing to herself. And I remember
how she carried me on her back
between home and the kindergarten,
once each morning and once each afternoon.
I don’t know what my mother’s thinking.
When my son lays [...]
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. . . kigen! kigen, email me with your snail mail and I will put a copy of What is Blossoming Within You? in the mail to you.
Such wonderful imaginations you all have, as always I thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every poem from this week’s Poetry Party and the stories you fashioned for the unknown. Our [...]
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Hope
Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.
You cannot enter. But you’re sure it’s there.
Could we but look more clearly and wisely
We might discover somewhere in [...]
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I first met Kate Iredale virtually when she joined the Sacred Arts Ring and I have really enjoyed her work and the way she works with images and digital manipulation. I find her combination of words and images very evocative. One of her images will be in an upcoming issue of Presence journal, for which I [...]
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I didn’t end up finishing a post for yesterday because I have been getting ready for a two-week trip I am leaving on this Saturday. For several months now I have been studying and working with Bowen Theory and some genealogical work as well. I first started seeing a Jungian analyst for spiritual direction about a [...]
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Our 14th Poetry Party! I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your [...]
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While at my hermitage this weekend with my beloved (and Petunia of course), I encountered this sweet and patient hound who I couldn’t resist sharing with my canine friend Riley. Go over and take a peek. . .
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Did you remember to set your clocks ahead last night?
“I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the [...]
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