A new brightness holds To the eggshell blue of the sky Though the falling leaves Of my youth are a memory only I cling to the change In season and perspectives As the air cools with sunfall To bring clarity to the stars - Caroline A. Slee
nature
Incoming
Though it is far off The wave still rushes for the shore And all of us caught Between its place and its goal Must make our choice: We dance along the rolling surface Or we tumble and churn in a choking ballet We choose grace Though fatigue whispers "give up" We choose that dance The … Continue reading Incoming
Finding Peace #MondayBlogs
The demands of life Ask that we never pause, never stop We mistake work without ceasing For virtue and character While nature keeps her pace Blooming and fading On her own cycle As we push and race And keep our heads down But, oh, how we miss these quiet wonders They wait for us to … Continue reading Finding Peace #MondayBlogs
Ruins
Mother Earth Reclaims What was once All her own From beyond The ruins Of this life we led All selfish pursuits And careless destruction With never a thought For the future We built more Always more More than we could manage Until it fell Into its inevitable end The demise of our dreams with Mother … Continue reading Ruins
A drowning world
What we once knew Has fallen away Covered over By an ever-changing Landscape Water reclaims What was once her own First by inches Ever-faster And then by miles The world sinks Beneath the weight Of its own hatred Until the water Washes us away A baptism To rid the planet Of all we have wrought … Continue reading A drowning world
Drifting #wwwblogs
I want to live Where I see the sky Duplicated On water's surface I want to walk Where my toes Can sink Into cool shallows Where the dawn Comes with rising steam And the silence Of a world shrouded I want to rest Where stillness Is disrupted By a bird's sudden dive And the evasion … Continue reading Drifting #wwwblogs
Hiding Places #MondayBlogs
Summer days Bring out the playful A remembered child Climbing trees And jumping into lakes A moment of lightness Before the weight of being Returns ~ Caroline A. Slee
Rise
So I must go To restore my spirit And revive my heart Once more - Caroline A. Slee
Moody #wwwblogs
The road dissolves Into murky gloom As we move forward Into what we cannot see Nature follows us Or we follow her moods Walking our path Regardless Whether the sun smiles down Or winds try to force us back We step out With the will to continue Unbroken Though our surfaces May be scarred and … Continue reading Moody #wwwblogs
The Farmer’s Daughter
Home Rolling fields Landlocked Far from the foghorns Of opposing shores Where morning fog Is nothing more Than the sun Cast along waving fields Breezes sending our bounty Into motion Like the rolling seas Whether we seek dry land Or wrestle oceans Across horizons We do not lose the past It flows through us Sometimes … Continue reading The Farmer’s Daughter