Hopes Deferred (a Prayer)

God of the summer rain, send us each a moment of shaking laughter or tears to crack open the dry, barren land of our hopes deferred.    This post is linked with dVerse Poet’s...

Life is a Field (this is not a Detour)

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing (or wrong turns and right turns), there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.  -Rumi   *   *   * If life’s a highway, then I’m in trouble. I felt good when I turned 30, knowing I had...

Conversion (A Poem)

  The way a snowflake melts into a river, this is one way to explain it; the way everything is changed and yet what was remains, now part of something more. This post is linked with dVerse Poets Pub. Photo credit:...

The Butterfly and the Rat

The twins ran to the kitchen shouting, “Mow! Mow!” and I followed to confirm the sighting.  For months now they’ve named and claimed every “mower” they see as we drive or walk through town.  Every lawn mower,...

Red Bird, Black Bug

  (this is what I’m listening to as I type, though we live nowhere near a field)   *   *   * At our old house, the cardinals swooped and soared through the back yard, pausing on a tree or fence before flying through the air again like a...
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