Morning Meditations I stand in the sun breathing in the day's gratitude taking in the sleepy world before traffic awakens to the roads the doves and the bees make short work of their music while the rabbits duck in and out of hiding wildlife in the suburbs greets my awakening eyes as peace washes over … Continue reading Morning Meditations
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Chasing Sunsets
Chasing Sunsets The hours after dinner spent on the move from one vantage point to the next as the day makes its close the sun sinks to bed but there is always another west to catch that last glimpse a dying day a magic hour chasing sunsets in a surface scramble and then comes the … Continue reading Chasing Sunsets
Scorcher #MondayBlogs
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The sky is a punishment fired by sun beating down the Earth dries and cracks her skin after long days without relief we seek the shade barely moving become nocturnal as everything around us ripples and wilts we lose sight of the ending the break within the burn the promise … Continue reading Scorcher #MondayBlogs
Bring the Sun
Summer skies bring the sun all hues of red and orange a burnt canvas rising above us in the early dawn the backdrop for a change of pace a way to shrug the tasks of winter from our burdened shoulders - Caroline A. Slee
The Floods Return
The floods return to the paths they carved over centuries passing through the same rocky breach a remembered route to the least resistance though simple things may shift the path the earth remembers the rocks smooth their edges as the flood waters rush again and again a cycle unbroken until the rocks tumble into dust … Continue reading The Floods Return
Frostbitten
Frostbitten When breathing grows sharp and the skin flushes with a burn a frostbitten sky sending the cold when the winter falls like night with snow hugging the ground we tuck ourselves in layers against chilled elements we lean into the weather pushing into breathtaking wind carrying the memory of flowers the season shifts and … Continue reading Frostbitten
Frozen
Frozen The mockingbird is motionless silent without her song watching the morning unfold peering through branches and blooms the sun does not rise the breeze finally dies and the desert holds still for the day and so we pause we breathe we join the motionless a frozen moment as time is suspended before the chaos … Continue reading Frozen
As Pure As… #MondayBlogs
We seek the driven snow that blinding white of grief and purity before the turn in weather before the greys of sleet the world unmarked by human steps we rest in the silence of a world muffled in cold blooming into ice and frost - Caroline A. Slee
A Song of Winter
A Song of Winter The time soon comes for planting once more as the soil rests its bones away from the sun our season of recovery and healing will move into springtime and sun but winter will remain within our own bones a memory and a melody we will not forget a song of winter … Continue reading A Song of Winter
City Nights
City Nights With stars above and stars below night descends across the sky with high-rise towers catching the moon darkness brings new life The city nights have a heartbeat their own blended with dance and loud laughter the world transforms to a magical creature living only in stories of ever after The familiar becomes unrecognizable … Continue reading City Nights