Category Archives: Images of ME

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Autumn’s Paint By Number

We travel o’er a rainbow road

With trees of amber, orange too

A multicolored page through time

A treasure map of changing hue

We follow not, the mapped page here

But choose to let the trail run free

Kaleidoscope trees become our guides

Painted masterpiece for my love and me

Suntanned roads, cut-sapphire ponds

Trees clothed in fluttering butterflies

Proud evergreen boughs to frame the shot

Oak leaf fireworks fill the skies

Robin’s egg vault a backdrop for

The flowing wind-blown cotton puff clouds

Maine’s Autumn paint by number days

My “Songs From the Wood” being painted aloud

 

 

Writing 201: Poetry

Today’s Prompt:  Map

Today’s Form:      Ode

Today’s Device:    Metaphor

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Shared Solitude

We share so much, you and I

Lives long spent apart, joined completely and intimately with the simple touch of a hand

You read my mind, complete my thoughts, fill my heart, embrace my soul

Before you I mirrored life but existed alone

I shared other’s lives but shared my essence with no-one

I found solace in the quiet dignity of the trees…..in the soothing murmur of the waters

Now though I still find my meaning there, I share it with you

Our shared solitude

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The Trees Speak My Name

The trees speak my name in a rustle and sigh

The clouds shape my pain as they rush on by

The lakes drink my tears where they fall as I cry

And my heart begins to heal

 

I dream the dreams that the rivers know

My heart soars along where the eagles go

It longs for the purity of  Winter’s snow

And my heart begins to heal

 

Maine’s natural songs are my solace, my ease

The strength of the mountains the cool of the trees

The timeless wisdom of the infinite seas

And my heart begins to heal

 

My own perfect haven, my “Songs From the Wood”

To speak of my heartache, to be understood

To be cleansed of my sorrow, love life as I should

And my heart begins to heal

 

As I feast on your beauty you quiet my soul

You whisper of newness in forests of old

You quietly calm me when I lose control

And my heart can finally heal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I’m Snow Sorry

This is the view outside of my home this morning.  It’s all my fault!

When we moved back to central Maine this fall I wished for my children to be able to experience a real “white Christmas” and to have snow to play in even thought they are all teenagers now.  We had spent the last eight years on the beautiful island of Nantucket where our winters would be filled with lots of FOG and snow showers that either turned to rain or simply melted away hours after it fell.

Well……I have gotten my wish with interest!  We had a heavy snowfall, followed by a two-day ice storm, followed by a moderate snowfall.  Guess what?  It is supposed to snow Saturday through Monday again and we are expecting another foot or more all told.  I should have listened when I was told to be careful what you wish for!!

All kidding aside, I am truly enjoying my winter wonderland.  I think that I have taken at least one hundred pictures starting with that first snowfall and have some incredibly beautiful shots of the birches on interstate 95, covered in ice, taken two days ago under a bright blue sky.  Flickr is probably getting tired of tree pics by now!

I am very happy to be home this winter, taking that deep breath of cold clean air and blinking the snowflakes from my lashes…….

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My icy holiday

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Is there anything more beautiful than the aftermath of an ice storm?   I have no words that can come close to describing the beauty of my yard on this lovely winters day, three days after the solstice and one day before the celebration of the birth of Christ.

I stand in awe of God’s handiwork.