I Have Longed For You

I have longed for you for many a day. Today I trudge through the melting snow to find my home, my refuge. I can feel the sun beating upon my cheek and as I gaze upon the sky so blue. For this moment, I am serenaded by the chirping birds in the distance.

There is nothing in the world like gazing up to an endless blue sky.

Magical things have happened here. One day as my children and I spoke of hunters one appeared leaving the brush with his bow and arrow in camouflage. Another day we spoke of giant turtles. For the past 15 years of coming to this waterside I have never seen one but on that glorious day I spied one through the clear waters of my pond. I can feel its magic every time I open my eyes after meditation and it is good so good and magical so magical. 

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Withered Leaf

Sister leaf, you stand trapped 

between branches of a wild bush completely entangled. 

Will you make it through the end of autumn?

Will you make it through the winter with its heavy snow and fierce winds? 

Will you make it to the spring and welcome buds anew 

or 

have crumbled to the ground?

Oh, withered leaf are you being supported by these bare branches or are you 

just 

hanging on?

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That Is All

Struggling...oh what will get me through tomorrow

Focus... on today and this present moment 

I can hear my footstep and the sweeping wind

I can see my meditation pond and can feel the winter chill through my body  

That is now and that is all

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Springtime Bloom

Oh flower, I eagerly await your springtime bloom

One early morn at sunrise I came with a shovel and hope, yes hope 

and planted your flower bulbs in three separate locations by 

my meditation spot at the waterside

May I witness at least one of your blooms

May the giant irises' regal presence bring amazement and joy, 

magical joy 

to others

For at this moment 

I give thanks for these seeds of hope, 

my hope

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Lullabies

...and the wind whispered the secret tales of the woods 

Come with me and I shall cradle you and sing lullabies

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