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Posts Tagged ‘Autumn’

Letting Life Be

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , , , , on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

image location It does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale blue iris.  It seems altogether right and appropriate that these glories are earned with long patience and faith. . . . and also that it is altogether [...]

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Blustery Day

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, elizabeth adams, tagged , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

a blustery autumn day today the last of the maples the cherries and the stately alders releasing their leaves they compel me to set free the old that hangs on in favor of what newness may blossom from my limbs ©heartsdeesire

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One Sand Grain

Posted in Life, Poetry, tagged , , , on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

One Sand Grain Among The Others in Winter Wind I wake with my hand held over the place of grief in my body. “Depend on nothing,” the voice advises, but even that is useless. My ears are useless, my familiar and intimate tongue. My protecting hand is useless, that wants to hold the single leaf [...]

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Fall Wind

Posted in Inspiration, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , , on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Pods of summer crowd around the door; I take them in the autumn of my hands. Last night I heard the first cold wind outside; the wind blew soft, and yet I shiver twice: Once for thin walls, once for the sound of time. ~William Stafford~ The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

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