Outdoors all by my SELF!Sliding on the BIG hill,ALL by my SELF!It was FUN! Fast and cold!Spin around, fall off,Backwards into snow.I am four!Four times down.Fun and scary.I am four, ALL by my SELF! Cars. A crow. A chickadee.My tummy.Cold on my face.A tear fell down.Smell the trees laughing.Snow like candy. Yum! More!Pink and purpleContinue reading “Today I am 4”
Category Archives: poetry
Willow’s Message
Of all the willows on this land,one is very old.Years ago, she fell.She lies broken,partially uprooted,but flourishing. She told me of the falling,of the happy movementthrough the air,and then — the crash,the multiple fractures,the silence. She rejoices,closer than everto her beloved Earth.She reaches down, down,into the mud,and up, up into the sky. She weavesthin branchesContinue reading “Willow’s Message”
Tending the Flame 2
This morning, this poem by Allison Rennie, ©Feb 2021, arrived in my inbox. I loved the poem enough to ask her permission to share, which she graciously gave. Thank you, Allison. Candles that won’t light are the bane of any worship leader, even when the worship is solitary, at home, for online services or privateContinue reading “Tending the Flame 2”
