Looking out my bedroom window
Wondering
Patches of white on the ground
And browns and greens
Sun shines with glory
Lighting the tall strong trees
So many birds in my periphery
As I watch the life flowing around me
Looking into my deepest heart
Wondering
Patches of cold fury emerge
And love and bliss
Son shines with glory
Lighting all who will see
So many angels in my periphery
As I create the life flowing around me
Water flows through the river of the valley
Twisting and bending and following her form
It knows no other way to exist
Carves her as it flows without end
Deepening of the ancient landscape
Unfamiliar and old and new and changing
Constantly moving toward an unseen place
Nature of existence, dance of water and land
Approaching the great sea, landscape changes
Smoother and wider and calmer, peaceful flow
River and land, land and river, calm bay, warm beach
All is well as the sun draws the water from the earth
Rains will come again, washing mountains, valley, sea
Be at peace in the perfect knowledge of the great circle
All is precisely as it is supposed to be in this moment
For the waters and the dirt and the rivers and the land
Drop of the cool rain
Touches the dying leaf
Tree bows under the weight
Breezes start to blow
Dark seasons begin
Birds returning flight
Looking toward the great cold north
Winter’s dawning blight
Inevitability of nature
Ebbs and flows of time
Circle of instantaneous healing
Peaking new moon’s light
Twelve tall trees standing
Forest of ancient strength
Sun touches their highest leaves
Birds nest in the life giving branches
Boughs sway in the breeze
Move in the mighty wind
But the ancient giants stand firm
Nourished from above and below
Twelve decades they have stood
Designed and planted in soil deep
Home to creatures, many
Admired by God above
Surviving for the ages
Living in highest truth
Belief in life of hope and length
Nourished and graced by strength
