Hummingbird Whisper Your wings whirr so fast tasting nectar from flowers orange, purple, red you hover and dart moving and then you stop your chest quivers your eyes search but for that still moment I hear the whisper of the hummingbird the mystery of your speed …
Blog
I am a tree
Written almost two years ago, but posted today in honor of Earth Day. May you find your own tree and your own truth. Hug a tree today, pick up some trash, recycle, buy organic food, donate to an organization, turn off a light, ride your bicycle rather than your car, pledge to make every day…
Cloud of war
This poem tries to convey the sense of impending war – both the immediate on the ground issues in the Ukraine right now and also how I am feeling watching it from far away. I can remember the fear of nuclear war that I experienced growing up during the Cold War and this conflict has…
Take me with you
This poem was written yesterday on 2/22/22- a great number day. It was written for my daughters to celebrate their travels in life, and the trips that I will take with them. It also touches on the fact that a part of me will always be with them, even when they are halfway around the…
I am whole
This poem was written a few weeks ago after a trip to the mountains. In it, I try to express the way we are all part of our families, our histories, and also the world around us as we live in it. Also, a continuing theme that even with the cracks and fissures in our…
I am woman I am round
I am woman I am round my breasts my belly my eggs giving life nurturing my mother earth creator feeding children laps to hold heads to cool a fevered brow to dry a wayward tear my hands circling you in a hug I am woman …
Sun kissed
The evergreen leaves kissed by the early sun glowing with morning’s light brighter now touching trunk the bright light of sun kissing the bark of tree sun kissed days one after another we revel in the feel of sun rays on our cheeks sun kissed in…
My tender heart
Beats life blood hope heart I feel you and your pain moving in waves across the space those close those far I feel there is sadness, struggle stress, worry we share this place and my tender heart opens to your pain sensing awareness tingling…