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Tag Archives: poetry
Ever Closer
“Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson January has ended in a rain of spoken word poetry as Rufous Hummingbirds soar above the trees and the first cherry blossoms start to bloom on once bare trees. Clusters of snowdrops … Continue reading
Signposts
There are paper lanterns strung across the front of an old brick building, their delicate watercolour painted facades hiding moonstruck light, if I hadn’t looked up, I would have missed the mystery floating there. It’s easy to see the variegated … Continue reading
Waves
Forgiveness, it ebbs and flows over still beating hearts – lapping eternally against grainy edges, to soften any roughness held there leaving rare sea glass in its wake. In time, we might stumble upon this unexpected treasure, lying innocently upon the … Continue reading
Posted in poetry
Tagged #ForgivingFridays, acceptance, cycle, dreams, forgiveness, heart, home, hopes, humanity, love, others, poetry, self, treasure, waves
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Passenger
Among summer flowers and dark earth I spied a red velvet starfish, an exotic bloom plucked from its ocean home dropped by a careless hand or mother gull upon an unknown world. A world saturated in golden light and still … Continue reading
Taste the Sun
“ The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.” – Rebecca Harding Davis There are delicate dragonflies dancing among the summery air currents on my afternoon walk to taste the sun. After a sheltered stroll … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, travel
Tagged bench, bloggers, British Columbia, children, chocolate, forest fires, generosity, humanity, love, music, poetry, roasted nuts, sharing, Summer, surprise, taste the sun, two women
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Seven Directions
I find myself in quiet corners capturing wayward lines on discarded napkins or random library slips, realizing there is magic to corral and wrestle upon the blank space – the image of a modern day Pan playing his flute upon the … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, beach, black hearts, direction, enchantment, flute, lies, light, magic, Pan, poetry, revelation, seeking, spells, truth, writing
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Cultivating the Opposite
The dream of living by the sea near a wild forest and ancient mountain range, rose unbidden, colouring the day to day of my long ago high school world. Time has passed unbound, leaving its inevitable brushstrokes and bruised shadows behind, … Continue reading
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Tagged change, childhood, cultivating the opposite, dream, elements, forest, grace, innocence, mountains, paradise, poetry, resistance, sea, time, yoga practice
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Lucid Dreaming
Prologue – Sitting on this fast moving bus my thoughts stray to the dinner I’ll soon share with my good friend – bathed in candlelight and good conversation her home is an oasis against dark thoughts and deeds. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, change, forest, friendship, life, lucid dreaming, nature, New Year, path, poetry, reality, snow, time
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