It took me six years from writing this poem to leaving this work work to embark upon my own work. This poem is offered to all of us trapped in our trappings….may we find room to breathe, space to live ; doing what we love and loving what we do
Deb Strafuss
As Fall progresses, and we watch and wait with baited breath to see what rating on the scale this year’s display of colors will be, I always experience the November let down as whatever last bountiful beauty of leaf and foliage disappear from view, falling softly and gently, making no sound as they go, or wind-whipped and stripped early from their bower by the force of fall’s early fury and power. This year, I had an amazing experience of watching heavy snow fall on golden leaves, weighting branches almost to the ground; and for the first time I realized the wisdom of Mother Nature who bares our northern branches to sustain our trees through their winter.
My reflections from a journey through the woods last fall, and the journey through the fall season of my own life, bring us – human creatures – and our brother/sister trees into focus….
Bright colors,
Lost leaves…
Everything gives –
soft wonder perceives…
Standing back for a moment to look
at which paths you recently took
brings a musing and wondering stare
at the choices that brought you there
Be awake, and very aware
as you tally your score with care
Did you leaf fall
and burst with color and dare
to live life with its charms and its calls?
At the end of the Fall
when your branches are bare
will they say what a
beautiful form
is left by the life you adorned?
Searching, searching
inside and out
a journey lived
with no doubt
filled with intensity
spirit and might
seeking, wisening, strengthening
sight
Lead me a journey
into the dawn
fearlessly forging
on and on
following, seeking
living,
being all one can
moving forward
and then
searching, sensing
moving again.
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To my fellow travelers…………
So Sad… A lass and a lad…. A relationship gone bad
A terrible wiry twist Unraveled fate – Interrupted bliss
And a lover’s kiss turned to death
The horror of parting, new lives starting torn apart by wroth
Traveled darkness’ path and turned from love’s fancy found to tragedy’s blood upon the ground….
Two lives just beginning ended
Two journeys begun never tended with what could be found of true love’s ground
Traced the patterns of passion and fate where love dissolves into hate and life becomes the gate to insanity pain and death
Never a chance for patience’s true breath gentle waters to clear and flow cause love that’s true to bloom and grow
Two lives, newly begun, undone. |
only us
blowing through her place
She knows –
She knows
Only she can come and go
as she pleases.
Aligned with some great global harmony
she reflects back to us scenes and truths
we cannot read
about our world today,
foretells the paths we’re on
reflecting them
As she’s come and gone.
If we could but read her lines,
interpret her signs
Understand our Times
hear her song