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Here's a new verse that generated from observing Winnie and
Toby on their morning walk. With the winds swirling about, they have a
different world to explore as the deposits of leaves grow and
redistribute themselves from place to place. Walks are all about
sniffing and fun for them. I enjoy the walks as much as they do. I get
to laugh, and that's a great start to my day.
LEAVES
Leaves are blowing all around.
They're on the trees, then on the ground.
It only makes a quiet sound
When leaves are blowing all around.
I've been slacking for the past several weeks, probably much to everyone's relief ... A week and a half ago I purchased a mobile home near my mom's home. Between my two jobs and working a bit here and there on my house, I've had very little time to sit and think of silly stuff to write about my favorite subjects, Winnie and Toby.
This morning, while en route to our corner destination and back, it hit me like a ton of bricks and then I had to write it down. I didn't have time before work so it had to wait till after. I had almost forgotten my intention to create another journal entry for the dogs, and then I stood face to face with my computer and it immediately flooded my head. While I still have my email up and running, I thought I'd share. Lucky lucky you.
Ice is out of the harbor, open water
teal colored, its whitecap lace shining.
Only one mound of snow
remains in my lane,
the black squirrel is getting frisky,
and Reuben's tulips are rising.
Cranes and crows and gulls
trumpet awake! awake!
Hands clasped, softly we walk the bed of cedar, a new wind out of the north, stop to watch a diving loon, admire rocks at land's edge awash in teal and cobalt blues, snakes--two of them--faded brown, an Indian paintbrush swaying in orange. Now overhead the whisper of wings--
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