15 Apr, 2015

To My Fellow Pilgrims

15 Apr, 2015

This is what I will tell you: Never again carry an itinerary.
Okay, have a landing pad and a departure pad
as anchors if you must.
But that is all.
Allow each moment to inform the next.
Nowhere to go; no place to be, except
right here
for as long as you decide.

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02 Apr, 2015

April in Connemara

02 Apr, 2015

On a day when winds are raw, rains insist
on their priority,
and fog is playing stingy
with the view
don’t climb Diamond Hill in some
stubborn display of endurance.
No panorama rewards your foolishness.

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30 Jul, 2014

Yielding

30 Jul, 2014

The wolves, they haunt me
slinking from the poem about a lonesome one’s journey
springing from the book about their predatory value to the whole.
She tells me it is no accident
their coming to me,
and I long to greet them again
in night school.

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30 Jul, 2014

Bartlett’s Island

30 Jul, 2014

Did you know?
moss likes to be tickled as you walk by
chickadees will follow you if you ask them to
there is nothing so exciting as the far off sound of ocean from a protected spot in the woods
Did you know?
tree roots are decorations for the earth's floor
and fallen trees become...

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16 Dec, 2013

Questions to Live By

16 Dec, 2013

In June, I attended a week-long Healers' Intensive, hosted by poet, novelist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman Deena Metzger. The experience takes one back to the ancient tribal ways of listening and being together in council. Of being so inextricably woven into the fabric of all life...

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