by lori | Oct 17, 2016 | Beauty, Content, Gratitude, Here and now, Nature, Poetry, Respite
I love it when the wind strolls in and my meadow friends dance and bow. Love it when waves rush to crash across my ocean where the wide beach smiles up where the eagles rest silent on the wind above etch greetings sky to horizon down to me all the way home: carried... by lori | Aug 30, 2016 | Beauty, Nature, Neighbors, Poetry, Respite, Seasons
Dancing in the breeze the tree is quiet and self-contained. Well, self-contained except for the sun the soil, the birds butterflies and bees rain and wind Daniel and me pruning away dead and crossing branches inviting more sun in to her center lending her our... by lori | Jun 17, 2016 | Feelings, Grief, Here and now, Love, Nature, Neighbors, Poetry
I found a perfect dead bird on the deck, outside the window victim of violence a deceptive white light through too-big windows his perfectly groomed feathers grew darker as they moved from his pale yellow-gray head to his almost black tail I spent yesterday willing... by lori | Feb 28, 2016 | Beauty, Content, Here and now, Nature, Pacific Northwest, Poetry
Dull reeds and mud-gray grass winter’s cattails dirt-sprayed root to tip hints of breezes dance between the strands and dew drops race sunshine down bended blades to end within evaporation. Driftwood graveyard here at low tide’s end trickling water settles... by lori | Jan 10, 2016 | Dragons, Here and now, Nature, Neighbors, Poetry, Women
I am tired of this world I’m tired of violence rabid intolerance greed rewarded trodden humans hidden, outright thwarted young lives mangled, ended weapons preferred to soft human flesh I’m tired of being told what to think how to think why I’m wrong... by lori | Sep 5, 2015 | Here and now, Nature, Poetry
This stone was a gift from Wyoming she longed to travel so a friend pulled her from her field brought her here to me to live beside the sea she found herself in a house of rocks here from every nation imagined herself at first in train station here she was appreciated...