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Turning to Greet the Sun (2022)
$12.00 Available on Amazon
Come closer to nature and you will realize you are never alone. This book of poetry reflects on the lessons and connections that the outside world is always offering us, if we have the longing and peace of mind to notice and receive. Sit down for a spell and let these poems calm your spirit in this restless, modern world. Be inspired. Honor what your heart is telling you and learn to listen to what your soul needs.
Turning to Greet the Sun invites meditation on nature, spirit, and becoming. Its aim is to break down the barriers that have kept us apart, from feeling that we are sacred members of a world that needs us to remember our ties to the earth and all of its inhabitants.
What do the buffalo have to tell us about surviving storms? How do you feel when you hear the sonorous howl of a wolf? Have you found a sanctuary where you can hear only what is true for you? Do you have a favorite tree? When the seasons change, are you changing too? Does water—the running river currents, the lapping at the lakeshore—bring you the balm of restoration? These are poems rich in nature-based metaphors, and they will affirm your sense of wonder, your need of belonging, and your journey of self-acceptance.
Come closer, now. You are not alone, and the world needs your unique, unifying heart.
Please make this heart so big
And understanding
It overflows my borders
As these delicate holy bones are
Hugged closer to this earth
Before gravity lovingly lets go
--From “Exchanging”
All We Wish To Be
(2024)
$15.00 Available on Amazon
To think, we have only yet caught a glimpse, a glimmer, a twinkling of our own vastness! Growing older encompasses an exploration of outside spaces and places, but most importantly, our own depths and heights, too. A perennial flowering, periods of seasonal contraction and expansion, joyful surprises offered by love and wonderment right alongside shattering griefs and time-stopping devastations. This mortal coil is not for the meek. We have had to grow the muscles for living amid this swirl of uncertainty. What helps grow these muscles?
If you are here now, you probably believe reading is a valuable path to making meaning, to spotting land when lost in restless seas, to grabbing hold of hands and ropes offered by the magicians of the written word. Poetry carries magic, transmits spirit, evokes awakenings, I hope you can agree. Much can be said with so few words. You might experience an infusion of understanding, a homecoming you didn’t know you needed, a sanctuary where your overwhelming emotions can be embraced and held softly, supportively.
That is my wish for you, as you read the poems in this book over time. From the sacred pilgrimage of love to the delicate steps taken by a curious deer, from the longed-for song and summoning of the common robin in springtime to the invitation of the nestling looking skyward with her beak open, carrying trust and hope on her developing wings—these are but a handful of inspirations found within All We Wish To Be.
Please walk with me under these stars for a spell, as the language of poetry illuminates our lives, our hearts, encouraging us onward and, most enchantingly, allowing us to see all the points of light and possibility that dwell right here inside of us.
...
come July
I will not forget this novelty
I will not take for granted
this common bird who is telling me
you do not have be extraordinary
to sing
but to sometimes forget the world
and remember the earth
to create
something out of nothing
with your singular voice
and so
to dance with the gods
just because...
we are alive
and that is exceptional reason enough
--From "The Common Robin"
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