Swoon

Swoon

Into open arms fall

     sweet surrender

Engulfed in extravagant love

     fidelity tender

(18-081B)

Motes

Motes

Images play on mind's screen

rooms of house long forgotten

Still live in image

musty places needing air

Stale air of pain and death

air the memory out

Open the window of soul

Deadbolts on door open

Open vulnerability to heart again

light penetrates the darkness

Motes play with the light

as breeze stirs the years

Long winter of shuttered rooms

freshness of spring arouses hope

(18-087A)

Restoration

Restoration

Before Love, Grace, and Mercy

darkness cannot stand

Beauty in what once was broken

fractured place restored

(18-099D)

Author's note: What if Love, Grace, and Mercy are actually beings that fight on our behalf?

Confidence

Confidence

Confidence in my deliverer

His love floods into the darkness

I've invited Him into the hidden place

What once held power now powerless

(18-099D)

Not Alone

Not Alone

Turn and embrace the discomfort

shame quivers with each step forward

Light exposes as move close

no fear because I know He who is with me

(18-099D)

Amusement Park

Amusement Park

That place of

     don't go there

A Ferris wheel

     that picks up speed

As feed the fuel

     to bitter arguments

Yet unresolved

     perhaps never solved

So don't buy the ticket

     get out of line

A cup of coffee

     as friends

A place to

     start again

(18-107D)

Fear

Fear

Weary voice

weak and strained

Life's circumstances

pressure remains

What once brought joy

held too tight

An anchor now

moored and bound

Just let it go

life's too short

Unbind the fear

live again

(18-256z)

Plum Sky

Plum Sky

In every day joy is found
observe the unobserved
Look up as sun breaks horizon
for a moment thoughts still
Plum horizon
burnt September sky
Wonderment captures me
expressions of praise flow

(18-255z)

Fused

Fused

Cottony paper draws the ink

like memories of you

Etched fire brick red

upon the hearth of my heart

Warmth radiates from each word

tattooed deep within

(18-227A)

Hushed

the land lay quiet

irrigation stopped

fog envelops

shrouds near and far

now all that's left

dampness clinging

sparkles prismatic

in day's young light

18-251z

In Summer When

In Summer When

Contrail follows

pickup's path

Dust coats

sticky skin

Becomes mud

rub brow

Paints earthiness

upon tanned flesh

Marks of earth

furrows cut deep

Upon terrain of face

he marks the earth

18-229y

Smooth

Smooth

Heart wanders to peaceful place
sounds of water rushing over stones
rough edges rounded
so too worry's edges smoothed

18-249z

Sometimes I wonder why

Sometimes I wonder why

We invest time and life

Into living on a farm

Then moment of awe

Makes it all worth it

Seeing what others

Only dream of

Unfold before my eyes

Sounds of hooves

Pounding the prairie

Variegated sky

Colors the palette

All reminding me

To live in the moment

18-247z

Notes: Video is of getting our Arabian horses back to the pens before dark tonight.

Rustling

Rustling

Rustle of leaves high above

blue gray curtain covers sky

cloaks sun

as rest in the hammock

gazing skyward

through canopy of green

Daughter leaves after

long weekend home

transitions again

as season rustles

thoughts drift

like cotton clouds

18-246y