Such tender paths on this tender map

the seasons always seem to linger when we need them most

we pocket the leaf that maps the tree that maps the wood that maps the love

what once was seed now becomes journey

for #writeout

We're all caretakers of these mountains, we are, of buildings and rivers, of near and of far, of dams and bridges and lakes and volcanoes, of even the scars of what we've done with these lands;

We caretakers, we are not always gentle with our gifts, nor always appreciative of their splendor, this Earth accepts our flaws, for now, these battered spaces of quiet beauty

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Nature Reclaims Words

1. Time, forever, lapses; each frame, a finger on the camera, society collapses with such hubris, worn like suits of steel, as Nature waits, patient, then wanders in, revealed

2. Who's buried wish is this, with roots tangled below ground, the place where ideas get lost and only sometimes become found?

3. I was never one of the Wild; someone tamed me as a child, fed and bathed me - maybe you were, too? - but like this land, Wild, we grew

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Three Poems; Falling

First Branch

Percussive drops drain these trees — Arbor leaves sing like cymbals

Dripping Autumn rains find rhythms all their own

Second Branch

Every leaf might contain a map - each vein and vessel an artery line to somewhere close - traversing root to trunk to branch to stem - pure electrical pulse: invisible communicated connected

Third Branch

If canopy was ground and ground was sky I'd T U M B L E from your branch and wonder why

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bent trees scatter brittle leaves

we sit here, quiet, writing, in broken peace

for #writeout

this beat you hear with your feet

this sound you feel with the ground

this rhyme you sing each time

you bring yourself deeper still, farther in, edging your way into the forest's heart

of roots and ash of feathers and fir of shadow and light

feel the earth stir in rhythm and revel in the pace of the quiet

for #writeout, inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0tt9U8b5I&feature=emb_title