Hickories glow bright;
Summer’s sunshine yellow saved,
For this gloomy day.
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©Bearspawprint2020
Bear 17December2020
Hickories glow bright;
Summer’s sunshine yellow saved,
For this gloomy day.
.
©Bearspawprint2020
Bear 17December2020
By the riverside,
We walked, myself, and three dogs.
The dogs were content.
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Bear 23November2020
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Heavy, the air.
Weary, the trees
Whisper their despair.
Invading miasma
Of crawling dreams,
Drifts, dense
With unremembered songs.
Heat oppressed,
Unseen Loa cry.
Intensely sweet
Their unheard wails
Are entwined,
Tangled,
In blue mist.
Eerie soup flows,
Thick with voiceless
Voices filling
Unrequited voids,
Empty of regard.
Leaves droop,
Breathless.
.
Heavy, The Air
Bear 14August2018
©Bearspswprint2018
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In the silvered night
Silent shadows
Keep pace
Beside me.
Bears, wolves,
Coyotes
Melt into
Changling trees,
And full moon
Flowers.
My fear
drifts away
In the silky
darkness.
I follow,
whimpering,
Searching
For the familiar.
Blackness
Covers me
In flowing waves
Of remembered
Grief, warm
And sweet as
A lovers vows,
Withheld.
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Agawela 06May2020
©Bearspawprint2020
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A song never sung
Was silenced by an owl’s
Whispered hunting flight.
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Bear 05May2020
©Bearspawprint2020
Together,
We dance,
On tiny stones
Of starlight.
Our pathway,
Illuminated,
Is between
Darkness and night.
Sweet scents
Softly sing
Of white flowers
Blooming
In dreams.
Each touch
Carries
The grace of
Eternal breath.
.
Agawela 21February2020
ⓒBearspawprint2020
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Glowing bright yellow,
Hickory trees burst through the
Winter morning fog.
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Bear 9December2019
ⓒBearspawprint2019
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Two owls are calling.
White moonlight softens the cold.
I seek the shadows.
.
Bear 11/12/2019
ⓒBearspawprint2019
Dark night reveals stars,
Flickering between branches.
I stumble on roots.
.
.
Looking Up
Bear ©Bearspawprint2018
https://bearspawprint.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/looking-up/
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Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
.
Dear Child Dear Child
I am not all alone in these woods.
The forests are filled with dreams and memories
That I have cast away and tried too hard to forget.
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Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
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Dear Child Dear Child
I am gathering back into my heart the
Flowing beauty songs of dead lovers and the
Blooming new growth of cast away dreams and pain.
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Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
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Dear Child Dear Child
My wandering is my dance, my own memory dance,
Through forests of trouble and learning and work.
I am dancing through the veiled mists of time.
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Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
.
Dear Child Dear Child
I am gathering together the music of
Thrown away dreams and lost love songs,
I am dancing in the joy of remembrance and loss.
.
Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
.
Dear Child Dear Child
Leave me now, please go. You cannot wander
Here, where my remembered life is too thorny.
I must gather my own lost song back together, dancing alone.
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Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
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Dear Child Dear Child
Go, sing of your new life and struggles. Sing
With hope in your heart and litter the woods not with dreams.
Leave me. I must dance, weeping alone in the forest.
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Old Woman Old Woman
Why do you wander alone in the forest?
.
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Bear … 04.13.2014
ⓒ Bearspawprint2014