[165] It Softly Speaks
There was a distant moon a celestial call, and a million stars. Thatched huts creating silhouettes out of darkness, mortars and pestles,...
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CAPTURED IN WORDS
BY LORRAINE JOHNSON
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- Sep 8
- 1 min
[164] In The Small
Gather from the small, —the small things missed in the know-it-all. For it's in the small, where life's magic —lifts you tall.
- Sep 4
- 1 min
[163] Yet To Come
I thought I heard the wood thrush calling from the trees, as the dawn rose slowly pulling sleep so I could see. The red beauty has not...
- Aug 7
- 1 min
[162] But A Dream
I am that. All of that. Sorrow and beauty. Sadness and joy. Both wise and empty. For I live in the paradox of an earthly world. Seen and...
- Jul 28
- 1 min
[161] Opening Walls
a fresh breeze appeared at dawn to wake the slumber from my walls planting seedlings for another round here as always, to astound like...
- Jul 15
- 1 min
[160] Always, Home
There once was a man who traveled across the world —along overgrown paths, shiny highways, windy, humid landscapes, sandy deserts,...
- Jul 4
- 1 min
[159] The Sweet Glow
The drops ping outside my door There is no sun, but I rise to soar The flowers know and reach out more Five in a row, the gulls align...
- Jun 23
- 1 min
[158] At Our Door
Change lands at our door and the sun rises to a different dawn not like one we knew before a longing lingers as our face turns toward new...
- May 22
- 1 min
[157] My Kindred Spirit
Why do we gather around well set tables laced with bounty with friends or family or unknown faces on cold sidewalks where no one cares in...
- May 9
- 1 min
[155] Seen or Not
I lay by night and wonder how the moon became such a sight why it sits sometimes bright sometimes full, sometimes sliced sometimes...
- Apr 29
- 1 min
[154] Stuck In Sundew
I can hear the sweep of tires racing down the lonely way as darkness peers through my window panes the hum of a wanting story floats...
- Apr 16
- 1 min
[153] Into the Abyss
You know its time when peepers start to call a dark x on their back and bans on their legs they fit in and sing with purpose and plan as...
- Apr 1
- 1 min
[152] From Which Crack
Gentle drips of raindrops call at my door and the crow squawks and the chicken cocks as the flower creeps through the cracks while...
- Mar 12
- 1 min
[151] The In-Between
"Why do we prune the garden?" the little girl asked. "So the branches can sculpt new beginnings," said the old woman. "And why do we need...
- Feb 23
- 1 min
[150] Yesterday Knows Me Not
I am unknown for I am numerous possibilities Walk with me today as yesterday knows me not Fleeting, I am, as the day turns dark I wonder...
- Feb 18
- 1 min
[149] The Wonder
Too much time not enough in the distance comes the train chug, chug it's making time I wonder who fills its charm. Back and forth the...
- Feb 12
- 1 min
[148] The Space Between
The space between neither here nor there like deep, dark clouds rumbling voice across the sky with drops of water, standing watch not yet...
- Jan 29
- 1 min
[147] To Know
To wander with ancient wisdom, old forests, and deep waters is to know the understory of people, place and purpose, is to know humanity...
- Jan 15
- 1 min
[146] Restless
Restless I sit, as the wind rustles, outside my door with flocks of birds left unfound, as frozen flakes fall to the ground. And I,...
- Jan 8
- 1 min
[145] An Ordinary Day
I want to live an ordinary day full with long moments filling me whole caressing my soul, with hearts that beat, ground and astound,...
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
[144] Filling Voids
I wake in dawn, with longing dreams. Though traveled far against the tide, fond footprints aren't far behind. Tick tock goes the clock,...
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
[143] Once
Wander deep in the wood outside the urban sprawl across green scapes and widened skies so near to touch if I could fly. Knew me once as...
- Dec 17, 2022
- 1 min
[142] Go With
But a speck against the blue see it flap—to and fro take a glide and move right through across gusts or calm no pause it takes it has to...
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
[141] Change
I watched it as it came and saw its shades as were made it turned from yellow to fiery red fading fast till all was shed then stillness...
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