Shelter

Clouds embrace

the last flame

of dawn

before the frost

fades

Later

clouds return

holding

the sunset's glow

against bare trees

#pictureAdvent Day 5 Isaiah 4: 2-6

Return

Leaves unfold
fade
fall
Water flows
freezes
in fault lines
Geese
gather
wheeling
south
but will
return
Winter
is waiting
for 
Spring's
redemption

#pictureAdvent Day 4 Isaiah 54: 9-10

Promise

Photo originally taken 1/23/14
The seemingly endless winter
that still surrendered
to spring

When the cold
fractures the light
into rainbows
this, too,
is God's 
promise-sign
Color
will carry us
through winter's
bleak days
covanent-protection
for every
living 
thing.

#pictureAdvent Day 3 Genesis 9: 12-17

Blessing

Clear and bright

early and alive

blessed by sky

and trees with arms

wide open

This morning

every morning

awake again

and moving

#pictureAdvent Day 2 Psalm 21: 13

Awake

Am I 

awake?

My guilt

and recriminations

deafen me

to any good news

Dawn promises

light

that will illuminate

my fears

#pictureAdvent Day 1 Matthew 24: 36. 44

Cloud Moods

Drifting

from stormy

and shadowed

to blue sky 

bright

racing the wind

or floating

in a woven hammock

of sunshine

raining

out of the clear

or shingling

darkness

upon darkness

Only where my heart rests

matters

Sister Seasons

Yesterday's

cicada-seranaded heat

has simmered

down

to this morning's

cool gray

cricket's one-note song

Late summer

and early autumn

fraternal twins

perhaps

mistaken

for identical

join arms

and lean their red gold

heads

on each other's

deep green shoulders

Even the geese

are uncertain

gathering briefly

to fly south

then returning