Two Look At Two September 22, 2009

Love and forgetting might have carried them
A little further up the mountain side
With night so near, but not much further up.
They must have halted soon in any case
With thoughts of a path back, how rough it was
With rock and washout, and unsafe in darkness;
When they were halted by a tumbled wall
With barbed-wire binding. They stood [...]

Moment June 11, 2007

I saw a young deer standing
Among the languid ferns
Suddenly he ran-
And his going was absolute,
Like the shattering of icicles
In the wind.
Hildegarde Flanner

Deer June 11, 2007

I saw a deer today
Half-hidden in the trees
Golden-sleek
She made my week
Then she left like the breeze.
September 10, 2001

Woodland Angel June 11, 2007

Sun glints off the golden waves of wheat
Dancing in the breeze.
Nearby, Deep gentle eyes stare back at me
From withina dark brown face.
Then I turn away for the merest of seconds
And the silent beauty is no longer there.
It comes and goes with the Autumn wind
Bringing with it quiet joyy.
I feel, and know I’m alive
I am [...]

Reality Check June 5, 2007

In the early morning
Golden, yet untouched
I sit here
In the midst of dew and dancing fog
and hear the silent breeze
Flowing through the leaves.
I see the darkness
and know there are no hidden threats.
I touch the very air
and taste its sweetness
I smell the rosebuds
Their fragrance lost in some future hour.
I sit here
and believe in the Eternal Savior
He makes [...]

Actions Numbered June 5, 2007

Has Anyone ever stopped
Their methodical do-good-now lives
To realize that I am not a statistic
And my actions-
Evidence of my cloudy emotions-
Cannot be explained by
Scientists connecting dots
On a computer screen.
February 2002