My Soul Has Wings

I am not yet born I haven’t had ~ A single thought My eyes ~ Stare at darkness And know nothing ~ About the sky That’s waiting ~ Or the millions Of birds in the trees ~ I do not even know That my soul has wings. ~ I have recently discovered the poetry of …

So Different, So Connected

~ Experience confronts me With absolute newness ~ I had never seen That tree in that way before ~ And now that moment Is a door ~ To a future That is life ~ As yet unseen So different ~ Yet so connected With all that I have been. ~

Statuesque, Silhouetted Against a Blueing Sky

~ Thank you For the gift of this new day ~ For the trees Armed with branches ~ Statuesque Silhouetted ~ Against a blueing Sky. ~ Image by Petar Ubiparip from Pixabay

A Vision That Has Never Left My Soul

. Seeing a bare winter tree stripped of all beauty awaiting renewal . I had such a vision of God’s providence . Knowing new life would prevail over the brittleness of death . That has never left my soul. . Inspired by Brother Lawrence's book - "The Practice of the Presence of God" .

As If Life Blossomed Happily

~ Outside my window The blossoming ~ Of the cherry tree In bleak November ~ As if there was No pandemic of grief ~ As if life blossomed Happily. ~ Image by yyryyr1030 from Pixabay

The Cathedral of Trees

~ The cathedral Of trees ~ And the angels Of leaves ~ Tumbling from heaven To earth ~ Call me To worship. ~ Image by Ervin Gjata from Pixabay

Blessed Company

. Thrush hurls her song in curls and spirals and dead straight lines . The trees stand as still as time The hills look down benignly . The wind converses enigmatically The river merely suggests itself so quietly . Even the buttercups Nod their heads with glee - . I feel I am among such …

Ponder Why

. The fascinating Movement .  Of birds And leaves  . Against An endless sky  .  And we believe That we arise  . And ponder  Why? .

Deeper than Distant Star Beams

. To be Like the tree . Planted By living streams . Whose roots Reach deeper . Than distant Star beams . Whose branches Connect . As the universe Dreams. . Image by Manuel-H from Pixabay

You Met Us

When we were Still far off . You met us Through cloud and fire . Bush And tree . You met us Through person . And through spirit Mysteriously. . Image by cocoparisienne from Pixabay