The Onset of Autumn

The heat says summer still is here
But autumn’s on its way.
The trend will change and when it does
I won’t know why it does because
I thought the trend would stay.


Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Photos: “Dark Leaves and Bright Sky”, above, “Fence and Field After Mowing”, below.

Fence and Field After Mowing

Wings Across the Sky

Inner guidance, help me see
Right across the sky.
May what’s best above come true
Even what I didn’t do
Even when I didn’t try.


Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Wings Across the Sky”.  Also linked to Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays where she describes trusting in her inner guidance.

Photos: “Wings Above the Water”, above, and “Wings Go for the Sky”, below.

Wings Go for the Sky

Bugs

Much of me’s a home for bugs,
The kind that I can’t see.
They’re in, about and all around.
They’re happy in the home they’ve found:
Their home sweet home is me.


Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “creepy crawlies”. The reference in the poem is to the “holobiome” mentioned by Steven Gundry in “The Plant Paradox”.

Beetle

Cars

Cars are cool but not like clouds.
They’re not like birds or trees.
They’re not like anything I know
Though cool and fast and off they go
While birds enjoy the breeze.


Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Get your motors running; cool cars that caught your eye”.

Photos: “Clouds Outside”, above, “Disappearing in the Trees”, below.

Disappearing in the Trees

Hiding in Plain Sight

There’s much around me I don’t see
Even when I try.
We’re shown it all, full-colored, bright.
Whatever’s hiding in this light
Is true like pure blue sky.


“Swan with Family Safe”, above, and “Bug Exploring Blossom”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Hiding in Plain Sight”.

Bug Exploring Blossom

Food of Love

Forgiveness is the food of love
That patience hopes to bring.
We eat while daily dreaming of
How peace would let us sing.


Text: Linked to Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays.

Photos: “Light on Hickory Leaf”, above, and “Fence and Birdhouse”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “The Food of Love”. Taken near Stoney Run County Park in Hebron, Indiana.

Fence and Birdhouse

Beautiful Spirits

Angelic voices I would hear.
It’d comfort me to know they’re near,
But what I see are birds and trees.
The longed for songs are sung through these.


Photos: “White and Green”, above, and “Yellow and Green”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme: “Beautiful Spirits of the Natural World”.

Yellow and Green

Street Photography

A sidewalk is a street for feet
With one for cars nearby.
My mind takes detours off and on
And sometimes when its good and gone
I let my spirit fly.


Photos: “Summer Street”, above, “Winter Street”, below. Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the prompt “Street Photography”.  Although these scenes are more of the sidewalk, the street to the right is the main street off the set of town homes where we live.

Winter Street

Pieces of a Dream

Dreams make sense in pieces.
They show up every night.
Even when I’m not aware
They shine their guiding light.

One day I may listen
And try to understand.
I’ll dream until you find me where
You can take my hand.


Photos: “Ferns in Black and White”, above, and “Dream Pieces”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Pieces of a Dream in Black and White”.

Dream Pieces