Tag Archives: yearning

Hoppy come home – September 20, 2017

Hop-Along-Cassidy smiled his hard smile, eyes like diamonds, so deadly and cool.   Hold it or else, were the words left unspoken no need to utter the message was clear.   Where has it gone now that either-or clearness the … Continue reading

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turning homeward – July 13

6.30.2015 turning homeward, life on the road has become a burden that no longer feeds.   it used to be the journey, now the destination beckons more.   home, where one has taken a stand, put down the roots, saying … Continue reading

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pathway – December 30

12.30.2014 snow spreads back into the trees a deer swath broadening through   afternoon gray sun spilling dull bare whisper shadows   the pond beyond marking a boundary that only the heart knows. ————————

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I yearn for you – November 11

11.11.2014 I yearn for you.   In my dreams you come as a lover whom I have lost and my heart to return to you, find you, drives me on.   Have you found another, no long care, where I … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 30 – April 3

Lent Prayer 30 You give us tasks that push and pull us beyond our depths and yet to our deepest desires.   thank you for the gifts that we do not call for yet appreciate when they have arrived. —————–

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chestnut mare – August 6

8.6 turning the corner I see a horse nobbing its head against the end of the fencing. the long neck rolls and twists, stretching then upward to flex the muscles while a subcutaneous shimmer washes back down towards its side. … Continue reading

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a prayer – July 26

7.26 come to me please in my visions of night, tell me of things that matter so bright.   sing me your songs of life’s dreams and of strife, of heartsongs once heard and rememberings bright,   angels and demons … Continue reading

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we sit backstage – July 19

7.19 we sit backstage waiting. to go on, to move a set to do something other than sit backstage. ———————

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