Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awe, bread, change, crow, haiku, heart, listening, lock, love, poem, transience, uncertainty on January 12, 2012| 2 Comments »
too many to count
petals on the orchard floor
he loves me?
*
rusted lock
in the heart’s back pocket
a spare key
*
snow on the ridges
come spring what else
will be missing?
*
almost asleep
these hands still kneading
soft dough
*
he talks
and talks and talks and talks
about listening
*
no temple bells
still the crow goes on
about awe, awe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blossoming, haiku, infinite, poem, puddles, sky, spirituality, uncertainty on January 11, 2012| 3 Comments »
impossibly, there
is in me enough sky for
these great blue wings
*
in these dark halls
I wander the meadow
unfolding inside me
*
your
blossoming my
blossoming
*
you look so funny said
the goose, as I lurched to
avoid the puddles
*
lost, at last
now I can get on
with my life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adios drama, blossoming, growth, haiku, poem, reality on January 10, 2012| 5 Comments »
we are like roses
in winter—we should not be
blooming but we are
*
when I don’t need the
storm, I fold it up and put
it in my pocket
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, blank page, god, haiku, learning, losing, paying attention, poems, writing on January 10, 2012| 6 Comments »
did it just start to
sing, that brown bird, or did I
just start to listen?
*
a night of fretting,
but the day comes in with a
cartwheel
*
that letter so much
more precious now that I
have lost it
*
once I took all the
books off the shelves, God arrived
with a blank page
*
today
the leaf just
a leaf
*
no pillow tonight!
the poem just grabbed a drum
and crooked its finger
*
but I don’t know how
to fly, I said, and God said,
start by falling
*
still cupped in my hands
this song hummed to me
seven years ago
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, baggage, haiku, poem, responsibility on January 8, 2012| 2 Comments »
lugging a tree, I
try to walk through a gate the
shape of a woman
*
you gave me rings of
keys, but the one that fits my
cage is in my hand
*
tears and more tears,
this house built so close
to the water
*
walking beside the
river I notice the one
beside the river
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adjust, god, haiku, listening, opening, poem, the dark, words on January 7, 2012| 2 Comments »
the sky unzipped its
blue dress and offered it to me—
hope it’s not too small
*
winter is easier
when your words melt like snow
on my tongue
*
I asked the world to
open me—I did not count
on infinite rooms
*
it was not the dark
that changed but my eyes that learned
to adjust
*
praying to God, I
said, I said please, I said too
too much to listen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, happiness, poems, what confines us, wings on January 6, 2012| 4 Comments »
the floors themselves
laughed when it fit on my foot
the glass slipper
*
do you want a bag
for those, said the woman
who sold me my wings
*
it was no thicker
than a word mid air, that wall
that trapped me for years
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, gratitude, haiku, integrity, letting go, nothing, sacred on January 5, 2012| 2 Comments »
evening news headline
Man Lucky To Be Alive
it is all of us
*
all this letting go,
said the hands, and nothing
to show for it
*
standing naked in
the downpour, the biggest part
of me does not get wet
*
I bet somewhere there’s
lively applause for all this
beauty we’re making
*
all those years holding
up a ceiling when it was
time to live outside
*
God said nothing
and I listened closer and
really heard nothing
*
your body,
there is not one hair that
isn’t holy
*
I keep no secrets,
the wind said, so no one can
ever blackmail me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, poem, self discovery, unity, unlearning on January 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
field, thief, woman, stone,
there is nothing the falling
snow does not kiss
*
I could not bloom
for you until I opened
for myself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, haiku, letting go, making decisions, moon, path, poem on January 3, 2012| 2 Comments »
when you rose
to leave, all the paths
went with you
*
Tied to your hand
by a string, the moon tugs on
a string held by mine
*
I’d like twelve arms
two to hold you while the other
ten let you go
*
I toss a coin up
to the sun, heads, tails, this coin
with your name on it
*
before I could ask if
you’d kiss even the blackest
part of me, you did
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, expectation, freedom, haiku, letting go, non-violence, poem on January 1, 2012| 1 Comment »
those crumbs
in your hair, I think I’ll
leave them there
*
it’s not what I
expected, said the fish
when given wings
*
you and I, two
winging birds that just escaped
the terminal
*
these hands, so weary
from grasping, finally open
enough to hold light
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged becoming one with the all that is, haiku, learning to sing, songbird on December 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
unless it’s first sung to
the songbird can’t sing—
oh stars, I’m listening
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, relief, shoveling, sunlight, winter on December 25, 2011| 1 Comment »
yesterday
deep snow
today we shovel light
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged full moon, haiku, shadow, unity, unselving on December 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
full moon
me and the cottonwood tree
one long shadow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged balance, chalice, gratitude, grief, haiku, unity on December 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
part dishwater, part
wine, this shared chalice of grief
and hallelujah