Category: Meditation

• Day 21

  rain baptizes the yard, field, streets, river from winter’s hold opening the frightened ground flowing through it and forward

  Jenifer

  April 21, 2015

  Art, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 20

  sawing away branches that died over winter unnoticed until others blossomed out

  Jenifer

  April 20, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Reserve time

  Reserve time for poetry in April, for when the days get longer, we turn out after our deep hermitage, rushing too fast to learn from the budding world. Reserve time for poetry in July when the hammering sun tempts you to spend your best hours dozing, as the herons skim the river. Reserve time for…

  Jenifer

  April 19, 2015

  Art, Childhood, Family, Graduation, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Work life, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Day 18

  under the diamond shining off this raindrop we sit, silent ease, cocooned in dark, unknown, endless

  Jenifer

  April 18, 2015

  Art, Death, Meditation, Muse, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 17

  unwrap muscles from bone, easing awake fear, softening its layers, stubborn, clinging behind

  Jenifer

  April 17, 2015

  Aging, Meditation, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 13

  it is still the daffodil, taking for granted all the space it needs, assuming its own beauty

  Jenifer

  April 13, 2015

  Art, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka