New Beginnings

I began this year illustrating a wonderful book . . .

Fire Inside

We walk on fire Though hidden from our eyes It churns and bubbles Within a crusty crucible Though hidden from our eyes Beneath our feet it rumbles Within a crusty crucible Hot molten lava Beneath our feet it rumbles We sense it stirring in our belly Hot molten lava The ember at our core We...

path of fortune

Good fortune today Buffalo perches on clouds Traveling the world

Plotting

He wondered what to grow in the small plot he’d turned over.  It was a pleasant sight, clods of dirt mounded up in tidy squares; he watched worms wriggling as he gulped water, splashed his sweaty face.  The sun had long since burned away all dew, it was on fire. He knew, he would build...

Rain, do

  It didn’t rain last night or the night before, someone dipped the sky into a tub of indigo it sparkled white where the dye resisted -or maybe those were stars dissolving into the firmaments fabric- It didn’t rain this morning, the sun glowered and the gladiolas withered under his hot gaze, weeping just a...

Journeying

We're time travelers Bound to leap with kangaroos Babes awakening Springing into the Southern Hemisphere tomorrow, where I'll be met by autumn! Thought to share these books that are flying with me.  They're by fellow online poetesses, Betty Hayes Albright who I met via blog and Laura Grace Weldon via the world peace poetry postcard...

Equinox Blessings

Nowrooz Blessings on this glorious morning of the Vernal Equinox coupled with Lady Moon in her fullness at night, what a beautiful alliance! May the seeds we sow with nurturing sprout and grow, flourish, and provide nourishment. May the tart and puckering moments that smart also bear medicine and illumination, as do sumac berries, as...

Craft

She practices devotion Crafting perfumes that uplift souls Teetering on the brink of madness She brings them to banks rich with wild rose Crafting perfumes that uplift souls From lavender worlds where dew drops dream She brings them to banks rich with wild rose As one, songbirds greet the dawn From lavender worlds where dew...

Wonder

"The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world." - John Burroughs What you need: a 20-30 minute space in which to creatively respond, paper and art supplies, a candle, music, fellowship should you choose...

Gratitude

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” ~ G. K. Chesterton