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Spirituality

Walking the dog among the old stones
Thinking about each life
Names of old....Hanna, Faith, Elmer, Jacob
John Hamilton "Dad"...that says a lot
Robertson "Native of Scotland" 1869
and newer arrivals..Robert Vietnam 1971
I talk to them
Thank Stanley for his service in WWI
Fighter pilot Joe in WWII
Elmer a Doctor died 1868
Vulture overhead 146 years too late
Fresh Flowers on old grave
Someone remembers
All breathed the air, felt the wind and the love and the pain
I ponder my own mortality
Like another who walked here in 1930
Did they have a dog?
Are they here too?

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Bought a cowboy hat today
54 years later
It's a brown hat
Not a black hat
Not a white hat
A brown hat
I'm still like Roy Rogers
But a brown hat
Use to wear a white hat back in the Rodeo days
Not a yearling anymore
A brown hat
A light brown hat

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They returned today
Hovering
16 neurons control 4 wings
Hovering
Scientists study them you know
Brutally effective hunters
Hovering
Understanding their brains
Helps decode ours
Hovering

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Ashen clouds blanket the horizon.

Storm over jagged mountains.

Hellish red dust scars the sky.

Cloaking the rocky mining road.

6 days on.

1 day off.

Miners will visit town tonight

After some booze

No doubt a fight

Penelope the Muse

Will restore the light

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I’ve seen them by the thousands.

Always zigging & zagging through the air.

But today the swallow sits still.

I thought swallows were like some people I know.

Always moving, always busy.

Just like I was in many chapters of my life.

“Human Doing”.

Now I sit

Inhale, exhale

Now I sit

“Human Being”

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Ever changing beauty.

Morning fog has washed her clean.

Pale blue skies skim steel blue waters

as Humpbacks spout along their way.

Swallows slices silky sky

while flowers dance and sway.

Why am I so blessed this day?

 

Spirituality

Like the towering tree.

Many round rings.

Deep tap root.

Twisted trunk.

Branch hanging from limb.

I move with the wind

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Tribes moved to her rhythm

But the dancing has stopped

Mother Nature obscured

Tribal hearts cry

Spirit ancestors

Let us dance again

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Today is her birthday

No not Ms. America
My Mom
Born in Eire
Turned 96
Her Mother told her long ago....
"You're so sickly you'll live to be 90"
Worked in London 1945
Only building left standing for 3km
She danced
Upstairs ballroom, downstairs Irish
Seems the Irish were always downstairs
Crossed the Atlantic in 1954
Had a room far down the stairs
Dragged the pram up those stairs
For seven days
Baby needed fresh air
Had good intentions
Learn your timestables
Do the dishes
Get a paper route
Fireworks fill the sky

Spirituality