To Be at Home
I am at home with winter I understand the thin Determined trees, and all the calm, Bare fields and I are kin. I am at home with winter, And I am glad to share The dull gray days of waiting, The cold, unfruitful air. All hearts must master silence Before they learn to sing. Must […]
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 […]
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?)