Dawn
I have seen the dawn begin With a thread of lavender Hinting, to my leafless sight, There is something more than night. I have seen the dawn begin With a sky of scarlet fire Declaring, high above each tall Leafy tree, that day is all. Whether that receiving ray Shines with great or little power […]
Supplication
God, be kind to crooked things To wrenched old trees, misshapen and awry . . . Let small birds nestle in their leaves, let rain And sunlight, and blue mercies of the sky Fall, in tender recompense for pain Upon them softly. Let their gnarled boughs know The bliss of blossoms sheltered in their shade […]
Creativity
It knows no appeasing It know no greed. Its seed is hunger, Its soil is need. You will sow and tend And at last there will rise A harvest that almost Satisfies. –From Because It’s Here (written in 1944?)