Summer’s coming to an end
The heat is subsiding
The cooler nights I befriend
When the sun’s in hiding
How I welcome the brisker winds
And the charms of October
When autumn truly begins
And the holidays are closer
The Magic of Autumn (a poem)
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Lush Green (a haiku)
Cold light on spring days
Lush green all on my body
Rolling in the grass
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Daily Quote: More Springs
“That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs.” – L.M. Montgomery
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Sycophants in Spring (a poem)
The world wakes up each spring
I notice warped smiles
Birdsong is back, hideous
On sunny, manic blue-sky days
An energy is something
You feel in the body
The way trauma is stored
Each time psychosomatic
Tensions mount
A naked man smiled at me in the
Bread aisle, and what a smile!
I noticed the weariness of
His wrinkled face and I remembered
Not everything is well
There are sycophants among us
They hide in sticky crowds
They could be anywhere, believe me
Spring is a time for violent vigor
And a harbinger of obsession
The sensual beauty out there
Sometimes hides the disdain
And the madness
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Winter is a Time for Healing (a poem)
Winter is a time for healing.
Cold, gray mornings and a pallid moon hangs in the sky.
Bundled up to protect my heart.
My heart is a fireplace, radiating from the center of my chest.
My lover comes close, we warm ourselves.
Winter is a time for healing.
Birds migrate south, leaving us to think of what we’ve done and how we can make the world a better place.
We take inventory of our souls.
Nature retreats, but it’s only regenerating.
Without winter, there’s no spring or summer.
We snuggle into the season with our lovers, and I clasp my rosary as I pray to the God I want so desperately to believe in.
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Daily Quote: The Loneliness of Winter
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth
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Autumn is the Best (a haiku)
Hot cocoa, a book
Warm blanket on chilly day
Autumn is the best
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Are You Ready for Summer? (a poem)
Are you ready for summer?
And days that burn bright and hot?
This year will be like no other;
fears of the virus are naught
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Daily Quote: The Healing Power of Nature
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” – Rachel Carson
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Daily Quote: An Ode to Spring
“Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” – W. Earl Hall
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