[171] Knowing How
The tree had fallen in the forest, across the path I was on I lifted my feet and drew my strength in future me I moved the fallen, just...
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CAPTURED IN WORDS
BY LORRAINE JOHNSON
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- Nov 10
- 1 min
[170] A Perfect Bloom
Grief found me in the hall with heavy heart about to fall around the bend the horn did blow the melodic tune interrupts my flow I can't...
- Nov 5
- 1 min
[169] The Nectar
Taken by the bee, honey drips into one's tea as sweet lips share words with strangers in need.
- Oct 21
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[168] Clings To Cracks
Shared humanity tethered in dark spaces as light clings to cracks and love fades — ever so fast religions echo hollow tenets in the...
- Oct 15
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[167] Take Hold
The streets fill with windows tight no warmth in sight, yet a lone cat darting windswept paths and the clock ticks, and the bells ding...
- Sep 30
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[166] Amble Through
Does the gull dream as it flies above the trees, across blue waters or golden fields? Or does it simply crack clams on rocks below,...
- Sep 9
- 1 min
[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,...
- 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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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...
- 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
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[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,...
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