First Winter Sitting
Last night, as we slept, the first flakes fell; unseen as angels. In darkness we rose, noticing the new nip at sandaled toes, the Autumnal air now waking us with first tender touch of Winter’s…
Tag: Nature
Night Desert Sky
Sitting under a night desert sky Stars twinkling, Wind whispering Quiet sighs My heart fills Memories of you My dear lover, You who so cherished me Enough to let me cherish you. We, the breeze…
Song of the Rising Mist
Sometimes I vanish into a wordless silence when love seems to play inside my heart, the way light disappears inside a wave as the power of a surging sea settles beneath a surface of outer…
The Oak’s Hymn
I stand in strength and verdant wonder for I am planted sure and deep My prayers like roots seek out their Mother nourished in earth my heart they keep I stand in sun and rain…
A Meditation on the Ocean
Newport Sands, Pembrokeshire’s North Coast A familiar welcome from a new friend. Pembrokeshire coast fights off the western seas like Cornwall. Big waves, long estuary, craggy cliffs. Early evening walk to the…
Landscapes of Truth
Desert - show me to myself, strip me naked of shame and pretence so that the bones of my soul ring a melody unconfined and joyfully free. let your emptyness inform me, until the wild…
Of the Trees
“I wonder what that tree would say if it could talk?” Five-year-old Sylvia asked, sitting with her grandfather on a shaded park bench. “It wouldn’t say anything, trees can’t talk,” said a grumpy man on…
Eve of May
Now that summer’s coming nearer, My blood does quicken in its pace And never has life, to me, seemed dearer. Ne’er have I felt my heart race – The way it does for hawthorn blooms…
The Wonder of Splendor
The Wonder of Splendor excites the earth with colors that clamor, “We are, we are!” The Wonder of Splendor disturbs the air with whips of wind that swirl and spar, The Wonder of Splendor ignites…
Walking the Green Path: An Herbalist Discovers Her Calling in Assisi
I never set out to be an herbalist. As a graduate student I was offered a scholarship to study art history in Rome. My plan was to explore Neoplatonism as it was expressed in Renaissance…