Sunday, December 20, 2015

Evening Sun

In my quiet space the 
sun no longer
sweeps into my morning
with its gaudy brilliance
Instead the evening
sun spreads long shadows
on my comforter
sliding through the slats
of opened blinds
Its shadows now
and evening and darkness
that call to me
The moon and lights of
night have taken on the
task of lighting up my soul
And with their lesser light
is invitation to enter
shadowlands and darkness
to explore the treasures there
Some buried deep
in childhood fears
and some entangled
in my dreams at night
All bidding me to
come
sit
breathe
rest
My candle and the
tiny lights around my window
light the way 

















Three Poems of Advent


Waiting for Christmas

Alone in the house
Quiet folds aroundme
Leaves silently flutter
Past the window
My hands hold close
My Christmas mug
The coffee's turning cold
I sit longer
Savoring the stillness

12/13/15



 Waiting

In silence
my heart is
free to wander
pathways otherwise
obscured by noise

My soul
opens to the
quiet and is
nourished and
watered by the
depth of stillness

How fitting that
this truth should
nudge its way
into my being
at this time of waiting

Just before
the burst of
angel song
and glorious loud
proclaiming of
the Son.

12/13/15



Silence

I hadn't realized
How noisy my life had become
Traveling, visiting
Living in a house with others

Now as I sit in silence
In an empty house
My soul opens
and my heart breathes

I have missed
the quietness and peace of solitude
But I've been welcomed
To a different world

Still, I shall work
To find these quiet spaces
Where the stillness speaks
and silence gives embrace.

12/14/15