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Category Archives: Poems
low hanging fruit
We picked all we could reach – low hanging fruit nourishes those who can pick it – juice running down chins and sticky fingers holding over flowing baskets our job is done, we spy more golden orbs framed by the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, The Now
Tagged angels, bandits, blessings, cedar waxwing, faith, fruit, golden orbs, grace, harvest, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, interfaith, interspirituality, loquat tree, low hanging fruit, nature, spirituality, thanks
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Rouge
two cardinals of brilliant red in a bottle brush tree of crimson fringe sing me awake How can you sleep with such a riot of Love!
Posted in Poems, The Now
Tagged art, birds, blessings, bottlebrush tree, cardinals, eco-spirituality, enlightenment, grace, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, nature, poetry, spirituality, sumi-e
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Snake
The island I called home has no snakes, so no one need ever drive them away Here there are snakes in the grass and in the trees, and no one need chase them out
Posted in Poems
Tagged animals, blessings, Christianity, eco-spirituality, faith, Indigenous Religion, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, interfaith, Island home, nature, reptiles, snakes, spirituality, tao, tolerance, zen
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Butterfly Path
Beauty is before me. A butterfly on the path sips her salted sip. She feasts on the earth. and flies onward. How can I not follow her example?
Posted in Poems
Tagged beauty, blessings, butterflies, butterfly, earth, eco-spirituality, ecology, gratitude, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, nature, path, spirituality, sumi-e, swallowtail butterfly, tao, wisdom
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Nests
Crow of the Sea take your shiny objects and suture me up. Let me reflect the light of darkness.
Posted in Poems
Tagged birds, blessings, crow's nest, crows, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, interfaith, interspirituality, nature, prayer, sea, spirituality, tall ships
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Crow knows
Why are you yelling at me? What do you know, crow? I listen and am amazed. Who would believe a caw so raw? Dazzled I retreat into the rain, filled with sun. Knowing there is glory in everyone.
Posted in Poems, The Now
Tagged bird, crow, fly, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, love, nature, poetry, rain, spirituality, sun, tao, theology, zen
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Balance
We are all shades of light and dark of new and old and ever present love. May we all walk in balance this year. May we share the care. May we love each other and our selves with gentle fierceness, … Continue reading
Posted in Gratitudes, Poems, Statements of Faith, The Now
Tagged authentic self, balance, blessings, dog, freedom, gratitude, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, love, nature, New Years, poetry, poodle, spirituality, tao, theology, vegan, vegetarian, zen
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Look Up.
Look up – it’s a yellow sun in a bright blue sky, it’s a leaf, golden and sailing on the wind, it’s a new bud beginning to bloom on a tree. Look up, it’s a bright white moon, it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, The Now
Tagged brush painting, dog, hope, ink brush meditiation, moon, nature, poodle, spirituality, stars, sun, sunshine
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haiku cat
Tilted perspective sleep alone provides solace let love heal the world
Posted in Poems
Tagged cat, cats, healing, ink brush meditiation, love, sleep, spirituality
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