Recovery is Ribbiting

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Update the day after surgery: I may be a bit green from the meds, but my kids are bringing me tea and tucking my blankets tighter. I’m managing to keep down simple foods. Thanks for all the good wishes, friends. Life is good. Hope you have a magical week!

Bloom Time

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Bloom time,
the shining moment
when joy opens like a flower,
and a dream blooms into reality.

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Thanks for Flowers

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Thanks for sunshine,
thanks for flowers,
thanks for snow days
and rain showers. Continue reading

Thanksgiving

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Thankful for art and music,
for time with my family,
words that flow and dance, Continue reading

Happy National Poetry Day

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This is just to say…

Thank you, Earth

that held tight trees
bent to their knees
in hurricane winds and

that imprints time itself
on gorges, stone and shelf,
in the language of fossil hieroglyphics. Continue reading

Doorway to Spring

Spring woods through the framing of a divided tree

Glimpses of green
newly seen,
make my heart sing,
ah, spring. Continue reading

Giving Thanks

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

 

Wet Red Leaf

storm wind gusts
shakes leaf from its anchor
it falls, giving thanks

Copyright 2014 Brenda Davis Harsham

Note: Happy Thanksgiving to those in the United States, and Happy Fall to everyone else. This was inspired by the air spirits in the Carpe Diem #611 Haiku challenge, Sylph.