Even When You’re Lost

Even when you’re lost The land knows you, even when you are lost In its veins flows your blood Your spirit embedded in the trees The voices in the rarified air trapped You hear calling out to yourself fair and free The memories since childhood…

Familiar Ground

I am feeling homesick for a land I used to know; It was the land my mother knew; in her time of youth did grow. Her journey took her far from there, to move into the city, But her heart always felt at home where…

Eternal Mother

The land knows you, even when you are lost -Robin Wall-Kimmerer While wandering I lost my way But I found I did not care The trees unfamiliar The trail long gone But still I did not care I laid down in the moss and leaves…

Mother Earth

Prompt 17, Hour 14 For this hour I want you to use the quote bellow by Robin Wall-Kimmerer from her book Braiding Sweetgrass as the jumping off point. “The land knows you, even when you are lost.”   The Land knows you even if you…

Inhale

I like how it feels to inhale chemicals I wait for the wave to wash over me Relax my being, my mind shedding the suit of armor it has been wearing all day and fade into the relaxing calm abyss half-mast eyes, but a full…

A toast to the selfless

“The land knows you,even when you are lost.” For a cut made by a grass blade, she comes as holy basil for cure. For a hungry stomach, she comes as a ripened fruit. For a scorching day, she comes with her tree hands stretched. For…

Never Lost, Hour 14

The land knows you, even when you are lost In times of uncertainty, seek the Wild Search the rolling hills, the craggy peaks, the blistering desert for guidance There are lessons if we remember how to listen Wisdom embedded in sunbaked stone In thick bark…

Hour Fourteen – We are not lost

“The Land knows you, even if you are lost…” Robin Wall Kimmerer Image courtesy of PixelAnachy at Pixabay   The Earth is very forgiving… We are destroying our Mother, Yet she knows us and supports us and will continue doing that For as long as…

Hour 14 HE WORE BOW TIES

He built the best damn furniture in the world And he smelled like sawdust. He wore bow ties At night and let his limbless hair unfurl. A thousand miles away she saw him in the skies.

Grandma Sharon Talks to Her Teenaged Self

You couldn’t have known that law school was out of the question, when you were Girl of the Month your senior year and answered the question about your future plans. No one told you, because your parents didn’t know, how hard it is to pay…