Nature's Pantry

While leaves fade into late summer, 

Sunflowers, as brilliant as ever, 

welcome bees into nature’s pantry.

“Nature never hurries. 

Atom by atom, little by little, 

she achieves her work.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep Reading

Yawning 

  despite the desire to keeping reading, 

plot twisting and turning, 

 characters leaping over gigantic obstacles,

solid 

 black 

   print 

fading 

        in and out

Characters in slow motion 

   Obstacles softening and translucent

…….what happened?! …..

I just dozed off again! 

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: 

people falling asleep like this.”

~ Jonathan Franzen, novelist

How High

Ambition to live the life 

we were given 

put on the wayside 

when confronted with style, 

images and must do’s. 

If we do not measure up 

then we chance to

forget our own courage 

and desire for independence. 

Independence of thought, 

 of action 

    of belief 

in life as we see it.

And so we climb 

into that suit of armour 

that fits us best and 

take the direction of our choice 

despite pitfalls that may be in our path. 

“We never know how high we are 

Till we are called rise; 

And then, if we are true to plan,

 Our statures touch the skies.”

~ Emily Dickinson, Aspiration