Live Inspired

She steps outside among spruce and birch
wind and birdsong
and realizes she is so much more than her issues
held in thy bough of nature
she is free.

Steps from my urban home.

Fresh Lines

Snow falls
like a halo
upon the earth
fresh lines
s t r e t c h
into infinity

she surfs waves of white
like a dreamer in a lucid dream
aware of nothing
yet everything
time disappears beneath
that snowflakes

like a deer stamping prints
in a snow-covered forest
she is the first in her lineage
to forge new ground,
to melt pain into
rivulets of compassion
to forgive a forest of betrayal
to heal her once crevassed heart

descending in this
timeless cascade
of g r a c e
she carves
fresh tracks

Fresh Tracks