Advent Haiku 3
Flee these rigid thoughts for an empty place. Sit still under sky, just wait.
Flee these rigid thoughts for an empty place. Sit still under sky, just wait.
Quickly one world fades, the forest path a portal. Jays, spruce waken me.
Long, I will offer the attention you deserve, breathe stillness, silence.
I’ve heard we’re in for a harsher winter than last year, but this shift in temperatures is so welcome right now, I’m hardly concerned. It’s funny, the summer was not particularly brutal, but I always find myself ready when a change is on the horizon. I love fall when it comes. Winter is the same. … More This week 2014, vol. 32
Without sense today. Silent, silent, silent, si Lent. At rest for now.
Magnolias, hide me. Walkers don’t see me. Such life unaware of life.
In our time of prayer next to the window, the wind came and left like breath.
Hunger, when I’m still to notice, listen to you, you teach profoundly.
Quiet, I forget that your time is precious too. I stray so easy.
Oh head, you pain me when pressured, but given rest you bring me God’s breath.