Morning sky shivers
with bird song, but sun arrives
late for the concert.
JDG
Author Archives: Joan
Hanging Loose
Vertical porch rail,
loosed from its base, gently waves
at visiting birds.
It stood firm when needed, kept
grandkids safe. Now that job’s done.
JDG
Telling Differences
I sit down to write.
In the cloudy sky above,
a bird in flight sings.
~
I sit down to write.
In the cloudy sky above,
a soaring bird sings.
JDG
Ten Years Ago Today
I asked what to plant
and where. Today I’d answer,
“Plant love everywhere.”
JDG
Happy Trails
Watching Knox sniff
the ground and follow
the scent to nowhere
reminds me joy
can be found even
when there’s no arrival.
JDG
March Branches
Some leaves, now brown, hold
fast to their home as new green
buds start to burst forth.
JDG
Coming Home
July 2017
Homecoming Delayed
“If you were in your
body, you’d be home by now”,
that bumper sticker
said, which probably explains
why I’m neither here nor there.
~
March 2022
Getting Closer
Seventy-nine years
and I’ve been elsewhere.
At last I’m beginning to learn
to be here now.
JDG
Thunder And Rain
“Sometimes there’s thunder
and there’s no rain;
sometimes there’s rain
and there’s no thunder”.
Ajahn Chah’s one sentence response
when asked for his spiritual autobiography
is true for all of us. For some
there’s more thunder than rain.
For others there’s more rain than thunder,
but every life has both.
I hope my spiritual biography
has more rain than thunder.
I hope I end with a gentle rain.
JDG
Bird Feeder Blues
First to feed, last to leave –
those contentious blue jays
outstayed their welcome.
JDG
Sweet And Deep
On this cold, grey day
heart-opening talk warmly
flows among good friends.
JDG
