Oh to be among the pines
And hear the elemental rushing of the wind:
Earth-based waves lashing the forest, crashing and fading
When the branches sway twigs bruising twigs,
Like pebbles that grind along the shore as waves retreat through shingle:
Calming, but with a sense of danger.
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One leaf falling
Down through the bright blue sky
Tinged with amber and Autumn golds
Just one leaf falling.
Colours of the refiner’s fire
Rising, falling and twisting
Into a fickle wind blowing,
Only one leaf falling.
Losing hold on what held life together
Surrendering to uncertain times.
But only one leaf falling: for now.
But if one leaf falls after another
Losing grip on the life-giving tree
To face the full harshness of winter
Will they lose the good
To fall free?
Or will they just follow unthinking
Like sheep who know not what to do?
Or is falling always a part of
What happens to find what is true,
So it can rise up in the future
Like a phoenix from ashes to skies?
Just one leaf falling:
But where will it land?
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Peculiar – that’s what it is
When wetness falls out of the heavens
to touch the trees and the mountaintops,
making pools on the ground ….
but such is rain.
Strange when the ocean recedes
And the rocks are exposed for hours
Before it returns to the same place to start over ….
As the tides come and go.
Odd when the leaves fall off the trees
and the branches wave like witches’ fingers in the cold
when temperatures plummet ……
in the Fall.
Unfamiliar when the land is covered in snow
And it drifts in folds across the landscape
Making everything clean and white and blanketed ……
in winter.
Uncanny when the wind screeches wildly
Whipping up the water into huge waves
Demolishing our world ……..
in a hurricane.
Bizarre when standing on dry land
leads to slipping and sliding as though on glass
And nothing is stable enough to be walked on ……..
without falling on the ice.
Peculiar, that the most natural things in the world
Our weather, seasons and tides can be so strange.
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