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CAPTURED IN WORDS
BY LORRAINE JOHNSON
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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 30, 20231 min read
[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 9, 20231 min read
[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 8, 20231 min read
[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...
Sep 4, 20231 min read
[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...
Aug 7, 20231 min read
[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 28, 20231 min read
[160] Always, Home
There once was a man who traveled across the world —along overgrown paths, shiny highways, windy, humid landscapes, sandy deserts,...
Jul 15, 20231 min read
[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...
Jul 4, 20231 min read
[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...
Jun 23, 20231 min read
[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 22, 20231 min read
[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...
May 9, 20231 min read
[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 29, 20231 min read
[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 16, 20231 min read
[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...
Apr 1, 20231 min read
[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...
Mar 12, 20231 min read
[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 23, 20231 min read
[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 18, 20231 min read
[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...
Feb 12, 20231 min read
[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 29, 20231 min read
[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 15, 20231 min read
[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,...
Jan 8, 20231 min read
[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 27, 20221 min read
[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 23, 20221 min read
[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 17, 20221 min read
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