Tag: wonder
member name: Judy G.
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December 08, 2006 03:04 AM EST --
Some years back I travelled to Tiffin, Ohio, to visit my sister. Her home was a very old, modest two-story place in an attractive neighborhood. High ceilings, plank floors, and back stairs . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:35 AM EST --
barricades of barbed wire
my fingers bleed
from carefully constructing
this damned fence
sitting back in wonder
at the seeming lack of scars
yet nursing the wounds in anticipation
of their infliction . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:46 AM EST --
grace and gratitude
from heart to heart
the former without the latter
diminishes the gift
shuns the giver
ah, but the rightful response of the soul
to the soul's lover
causes both to sing
ah, . . .
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December 22, 2006 11:17 PM EST --
Many endings are ahead as the year comes to a close. They are endings that just seem to hover out there - almost a threat, almost a promise - nothing final. Not just yet.
Ending the year with . . .
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March 08, 2007 06:52 AM EST --
It's Spring - and my nose goes crazy! But not merely in the pollen-induced sneezing sort of way. No, God blessed me with a nose that can smell snow on a distant mountain top from way down in . . .
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September 22, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
Innocently enough, it sprang from the rich brown/black compost heap, way back in the far boundry of the yard. It had a couple companions joining the stretch for sunshine and freedom from that decomposing . . .
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August 19, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
it's a beach afternoon
bonfire at dusk
wind wafting the scent of far away shores towards me
my chair settles snugly down into the sand
surrounded by books and good friends
shore birds and children . . .
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August 19, 2006 01:32 AM EDT --
a peace finally found
in stillness and quiet,
from a silence not broken,
received in the heart
how large can a heart grow
deep reaching peace
a mind cannot grasp it
the soul finds it's . . .
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September 02, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
I was married just a couple weeks after my 20th birthday - the first time. I was married a few weeks after my 30th birthday - the second time.
I told my new husband that when 40 rolled around, I would . . .
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September 02, 2006 08:15 PM EDT --
topiary life
shaped from birth
with wires and twine
buds and blossoms emerge
strain to send their offerings
outside the bounds
living free for the moment, undiscovered
back against the stucco . . .
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