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CAPTURED IN WORDS
BY LORRAINE JOHNSON
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[24] Once More
I want to go to the seashore and watch the earth perform. And when the waves rupture the shore, And the wind wraps around its dunes, I...
Mar 9, 20211 min read
[22] The Passing
Today is the day, carried on my back, a watermark of a passing soul. So many settings of the sun and the moon live no more. Yet your...
Mar 6, 20211 min read
[21] A Goodbye
I met him on a day. He threw his dilemma into the air. I watched it float from side to side. And when it finally hit the earth, he leaned...
Mar 4, 20211 min read
[19] The Space Between
Humanity taps at our doors. Open up—it beckons let me hold your footprint on soil, sand, moist or dry. Look into my eyes let that which...
Feb 28, 20211 min read
[17] My Beautiful Memory
Forever you are the sound of the grasshopper pulling me towards The gentle sound of the chime when wind there is none The passing breeze...
Feb 23, 20211 min read
[16] Before The Sun
In the silence I travel far and wide Across valleys Climbing mountains And pausing at the spirit of a rock Willowing trees hear the call—...
Feb 21, 20211 min read
[14] At My Door
If I was to gather all my thoughts and blow them out to sea it would be to you, my unknown you, who I share my deepest me you who wanders...
Feb 14, 20211 min read
[13] And Fly
When the sun hangs high in the sky, the lonely bird sits and dreams, of joining a flock that wisps the sea with the flurry of its mien....
Feb 13, 20211 min read
[12] Little Things
The years deposit nuggets of memories, but mostly they remind us of the joy found in sitting gently by a stream, listening to the echos...
Feb 12, 20211 min read
[8] A Dream
Once I saw a fleeting star and watched it from afar It seemed adrift, meandering— intentioned, not astray I thought it something...
Feb 9, 20211 min read
[6] Flutter of Existence
And there I was sitting by the sunshine pouring through my drafty window— as fall settled in and the leaves began to let go— seeking,...
Feb 7, 20211 min read
[4] Becoming slow, just enough
The earth is singing. It is that time—yes, when time beckons us to slow, and maybe, just maybe, in the growing silence, we can hear. What...
Feb 5, 20211 min read
[2] A Powerful Presence
It is not the length of one's spine The shade of one's wrappings The answers in one's mind Nor the design of one's form Rather it is the...
Feb 3, 20211 min read
[1] Like a Mighty Tree, A Blade of Grass
When hatred rears its forbidding head, do not become weary, my son like a flower without water like a river without a path. Rather stand...
Jan 30, 20211 min read
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