Posted in Mother, love, nature, poetry, tribute to Mother, tagged love, Mother, nature, poetry on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Mother, I went to the bush to-day to hear you speak in the silence.
At the graveside, you spoke to my heart and said
“Be observant.”
A few feet away from that moment I found some wonderful feathers.
I shared them with the family.
Today, alone in the forest, with friends waiting while I took our pine cones (from Thanksgiving [...]
Posted in Acceptance, Family, Mother, gratitude, love, memories, nature, poetry, tribute to Mother, tagged Family, memories, Mother, poetry, tomatoes on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I love the smell of a tomato field.
We picked them for Aunt Annie in the summer in New Brunswick.
I wanted a perfume that smelled like the vines and leaves.
Brandie made turkey bacon and tomato sandwiches for breakfast
When we had gathered together when you went Home.
You made the best sliced tomato platter when we were growing [...]
Posted in 12 Step Program, Acceptance, Death and dying, Detachment, God, crone, depression, gratitude, grief, love, nature, poetry, recovery, spiritual renewal, spirtual awakening, surrender, tagged 12 Step, fifth step, gossip, Healing, hope, poetry, surrender on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The girl’s were getting together to “dish the dirt“
I thought they would be planting seeds or something.
They were.
They were gossiping…seeds of ‘dirt’about another Soul.
When day is done they put our ashes in dirt.
We cleanse our Soul to release the dirt.
We pray.
Do our step work and take the dirt
To our sponsor and release to our Higher [...]
Posted in 12 Step Program, Death and dying, nature, poetry, tagged 12 Step Program, nature. death and dying, poetry on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
If I were to be walking
Across a field of snow,
How would one know by the marks
I make
how long it took to go?
How many birds
I saw
Along the way
The songs they sang
To beg me stay?
How many rabbits
Bounded across my path?
The funny things
They made me laugh.
How many deer
Stood to look
Stood and stood
Until they shook?
No one would ever know
How [...]
