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Love is a Rendering

Love is a Rendering Telling you how I love you is like trying to find things that haven’t been said about the ocean. My hands prefer to paint it— affection, water— sweeping, striped backgrounds,…

MelindaFebruary 14, 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

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

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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

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

So many ways to say it. Be Here Now.

Between Opening the red door to a new spring day. my feet greet crumbs of last year’s leaves, dotted with recent, light green pollen all swirled into the little cove,…

MelindaMay 18, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Many Singularities

Stephen Hawking, having passed away a full fifty one years post predicted demise, has left us trails, breadcrumbs. Not random, because nothing is haphazard as it seems. Rather they…

MelindaMarch 20, 2018

Family Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Remembering my father 1. The night your own difficult breath awakened you, your lungs spent from trying, and you sensed your heart, that grieving well, slowing almost imperceptibly, and your legs and arms refused command…

MelindaMarch 15, 2018

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Barry of the Wind

The Names Project, AIDS Memorial Quilt Have you ever dreamed someone alive again, someone long dead, whose memory visits rarely? Have you seen the watery shine of his eyes, smelled the shampoo lingering in her…

MelindaMarch 8, 2018

Cats Family Spirituality Writing

It’s a Good Thing

The View from Here Hello from my couch, where I’ve been planted for the majority of my waking hours for the past twenty five days. Who’s counting? I sure am. I’ve been following doctor’s orders…

MelindaJanuary 3, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

From the First of November, 2017

Because sometimes it takes a whole month to write it down. I type with hands that are redolent with garlic, onion, and freshly grated ginger. Today contains a chunk of time for cooking, with hearty…

MelindaNovember 30, 2017

Love is a Rendering

Receiving the darkness

Natura Illustratio

Rocking the cosmic swirl

So many ways to say it. Be Here Now.

Many Singularities

Deliverance

Barry of the Wind

It’s a Good Thing

From the First of November, 2017

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