Monday, January 30, 2012
At the Water's Edge
At the water's edge, I have found a friend.
The rhythmic lapping of each wave
is a comfort--I have come to depend
upon the starlit water, upon the deep blue sky
and upon the tinkling waterfall as it
rushes, passing by.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Not Brand New
© Karen Powell
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Through...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Foggy, Creepy Day
Ahead...
Where Does the Road Go?
"You Want to Go Ahead...Are You Sure?"
Foggy, creepy day-
Fog won't go away...
It rests around the mountain, deep
As if into our bones, it seeps...
It curls upon the hills and weeps-
Foggy, creepy day.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Lost Photos...
Magnificent Orb 'Caught'
Sunset Yellow (off of Beacon Heights; Blue Ridge Parkway)
Here are a few random,
lost photos that I retrieved
of noteworthy spring color. I am thinking
that it can 'offset' the drab doldrums
of muddy browns and gray-grays
we are left with now, this snow-less season.
:-)
Enjoy your day!
Monday, January 16, 2012
Breaking Bark
Long legs waving back and forth,
I have, at last, found a tailor-made perch to sit and wonder.
The smell of brown bark, nearby pine and some still damp earth
are the scents that I smell, here.
And it is my resting place.
At 50 (now) when I spy a tree limb--strong, and sufficiently horizontal;
close to the ground, my mind goes back to this--the sacred spot,
in the low lying tree just two houses down from my safe, yellow, front-porched Milwaukee bungalow.
In this—my tree limb resting place, I am invisible. I am surely, of the divine. And I am more than a front porch traveler and bigger than a child.
I would sit here…and quietly (and privately) allow my own mind to wander and my own thoughts to spread out some, a bit. In this, my protected and much coveted place, I was allowing my mind to grow. Did the tree know this? Did it feel my groaning, too?
They say that when a tree grows it breaks its bark. Perhaps I too, was breaking my bark.
What better place to do this, than in a tree?
Maybe it was just idle time, but in this, the resting place--
to me, a girl of just eight, or nine and ten, it was legs dangling, arms holding, hair blowing, sunlight dancing, breeze playing, leaf wiggling, one leg flopping…bird singing me-time.
(My mother would say that as a somewhat self-centered, first-born child--I have, perhaps, always been good at this.) And I smile.
But I have found it useful still, to preserve, to hold fast to, and to cultivate my own playful, watchful, solitary, just-for-art eye. For, the more that I look, the more I see, in the splendid world of solitude.
My world is (much) bigger now, but long for-I do, the tree,
and (perhaps) my childhood innocence…
but more than this—
the supreme sense of wonder that it held.
I might add that--
as a still wandering and now-fully-grow’d-up young women,
I am perpetually lingering and in a semi-permanent state
of watchfulness for it.
Or is it that we, each, try…to go back home?
…Me to my tree, and you, to your river.
Lois Nancy
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