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opening to you – April 29

Posted on April 30, 2014 by landl30

4.29.2014

opening to you

listening for your

voice

silent as rain on

my windows

hushing as wind

behind my eyes

out of the corners.

there.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged awareness, communication, connection, God, listening, love, lover, meditation, moment, openness, quiet, searching, Silence, spirit, vision | Leave a comment

watch me watch – April 28

Posted on April 29, 2014 by landl30

4.28.2014

watch me watch

watching to see

if the world still

likes

you and me.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged friendship, hopes, observing, peeking out, providence, Romance, watching | Leave a comment

a good ache – April 27

Posted on April 29, 2014 by landl30

4.27.2014

rake tines pull back

at muscles unused

since winter’s pall

pine needle piles

aerating the ground

beneath

while warm winds

open cells and call

forth a keenness

a good ache borne

of honest labor tugs

the heart forward.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged body awareness, gardening, gardens, Health, heart, labor, nature, pain, rejuvenation, spring, yard work | Leave a comment

doggy’s nose waits – April 26

Posted on April 27, 2014 by landl30

4.26.2014

doggy’s nose waits

just outside the door.

say the word walk

and he is up eyes

round and ready.

my son waits at the

door for his love

to bless their move.

say the word yes

and his eyes will fill.

something lies just

around all corners

where we wait yet

unseeing for a word

that will open us.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged anticipation, aspiration, deliverance, dogs, grace, hope, opening, promise, sons, waiting, word | Leave a comment

picture window picture – April 25

Posted on April 26, 2014 by landl30

4.25.2014

the picture window picture

flows straight out of my

catalog of dreams

images of amber waters

winding out amongst

the wooded tree lines

while soft angled sun

filters in from my upper

right

as if currier left ives back

at the store, so that he

could add in

the color.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged archetypes, art, color, composition, currier & ives, dreams, images, light, memory, nature, prints, texture, water. | Leave a comment

faces – April 24

Posted on April 25, 2014 by landl30

4.24.2014

faces around tables

that don’t listen

faces that relate

the passing time

faces who once upon

the once were children

faced that have paused

only to rhyme.

faces of the aged

and forgotten

friends who knew

the way once, way

back when

faces that will pass

away eventually

come to hear their

echoes now again.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged aging, calm, distance, echoes, faces, friends, isolation, memory, presence, sadness | Leave a comment

out into the world – April 23

Posted on April 24, 2014 by landl30

4.23.2014

wandering wandering

the house seems vacant

as if meaning took

a powder when the

book was finished

like having a

baby who then

grows up and says

bye bye without

actually saying it

gone. empty. space.

out into the world.

let go.

missed.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged emptiness, loss, Mourning, publishing | Leave a comment

not now – April 22

Posted on April 23, 2014 by landl30

4.22.2014

not now, I said

I don’t want to

think about it

now.

now, she said

the time is now

and if it’s not,

not.

so I went with

it.

smart choice.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged boy, choice, girl, relationships, timing, wisdom | Leave a comment

when I was young – April 21

Posted on April 21, 2014 by landl30

4.21.2014

when I was young

I prayed for a red

Columbia bicycle

and for the mean

kids to leave me

alone.

I didn’t know that

You paid attention

to the big stuff and

thought that maybe

You didn’t care

until you touched the

big stuff in my life

underneath, within,

around

that pushed, pulled

and graced me

onto new paths.

I loved that bicycle.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged bicycles, God, grace, meanness, memory, prayers, thoughts, twists, youth | Leave a comment

Easter Morning – April 20

Posted on April 20, 2014 by landl30

Easter Morning

Hallelu-jah.