Nature

Nature Writing

Dreamed some dreams

"A DREAM NOT INTERPRETED IS LIKE A LETTER NOT READ." -- The Talmud Last was a night of serial dreams, each building on the tangled mysteries of the one before. There was big sky, and…

MelindaJanuary 16, 2019

Art Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

In praise of song

SONG STORIES You open your mouth and out pours a river carrying the rhythms of fluids— blood and lymph, tears, synovial. It is current, and source, keeper of…

MelindaJanuary 2, 2019

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Receiving the darkness

The word solstice was born from the Latin sol ( sun) and sistere ( to stand still). Solstice, winter This darker interlude could be a meditation, a reckoning with the deceptive nature of time. The…

MelindaDecember 22, 2018

Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Morning is mostly a prayer

It's been over a month since I last posted here. The reasons are many, but I guess it all whittles down to this: not blogging begets not blogging. I'm here now, though, offering this poem…

MelindaDecember 20, 2018

Autism Bink Family Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Arrivals

I'm posting this a day before my daughter's 26th birthday. I've always felt, with certainty, that we were meant to incarnate this way, as mother and daughter, at this particular time in the life of…

MelindaNovember 14, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Natura Illustratio

Nature is a picture book of wisdom and example, an illustrated guide to how we could arrive, and live, and die. Take, for example, a leaf in spring. It draws from mother tree the energy…

MelindaSeptember 25, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality

Thalassophile’s Lament, August

That place I left my last glass of calm, tabled and shimmering like the Sun himself had reached down and swished his mighty steamy hand in its vitalizing…

MelindaAugust 30, 2018

Art Cairns Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

The art that blesses my listening hands

Making Art with Beach Stones My home hums with them–— the smooth and rough, pale and dark, striped, speckled, some with lines, or bits of mica mesmerizing the…

MelindaAugust 27, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Praise at the end, for beginning there

A Prayer, Fertile For all the beginnings we cultivate from seeds, lay to cradle in the richest earth, give moisture with our tears, our sweat and handfuls of rainwater like offerings to the deities we…

MelindaJuly 23, 2018

Family Nature Parenting Poem Spirituality Writing

Rocking the cosmic swirl

Rocking It comforts me to know the old couple across the street just celebrated fifty years in the same house. Fifty together years with the home they perhaps chose to be new in together, a…

MelindaJune 19, 2018