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Tag Archives: summer
high summer
grass high and dry and seeded as wheat tips too close for focus belly on the blanket beside it a bowl of blueberries, almost gone the rain pretends to come but no one cares not even the cat written july … Continue reading
Posted in mindfulness, my glamorous life, poetry, wheel of the year
Tagged blueberries, grain, grass, high summer, poetry, summer, summertime in boston
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the plant reaches toward the light
marigold meant for marriage by the front door — for luck – grows leggy and strange in its pursuit of the light that falls just short of the door it blooms barely marigold but still blooms tiny yellow hearts at … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, poetry, religion and spirituality, wheel of the year
Tagged aloe plant, army guy, bisexuality, blooms, boston, domestic partnership, doom, earth-based spirituality, gardening, high summer, lesbian marriage, love, marigolds, marriage, men, nature, plants, poetry, poetry - mine, religion, shacking up, shade gardening, spirit, spiritual practice, summer, summertime in boston, sunlight, sunlight of the spirit
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Hammond Pond Reservation, Green Line crossing
For five extra minutes you follow the path through mayapple, sarsaparilla and anxiety over a little hill and through what might be blueberry and poison ivy with beech and oak and maple rustling overhead to a pond, a flooded field … Continue reading
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Tagged boston, MBTA, mindfulness, nature, poetry, summer, urban wilderness, wheel of the year
Haiku: Menotomy, early autumn, cicadas, late summer
Menotomy lands orange leaves upon a single tree first sign of autumn shrill drone of insects green lawn dappled by sunlight and wind in the leaves
Spy Pond, 103 degrees
Shimmering light reflected on the trunk and branches of a maple tree Sit still long enough and the birds come out to keep you company Thin sound of traffic across the pond Friday night, 6:30 Hot, bright, July sky cleared … Continue reading
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Tagged boston, high summer, poetry, poetry - mine, summer, summertime in boston
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haiku: July, Sunday night, 10pm
after the day’s heat cool breezes under dark skies delicious relief
Posted in mindfulness, poetry
Tagged boston, haiku, high summer, new england, poetry, poetry - mine, summer, summertime in boston
Weekly gratitude practice: summer, work, Friday, clothes, love
Summer arrived in force a couple of days ago. After months of shivering under rain and clouds, I will gladly take it. In typical New England style, we moved right from the 40s-50s to the 80s. But I’ll still take … Continue reading
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Tagged army guy, boston, family, fashion, friends, gratitude, love, spiritual pratice, summer
August Moon Waxing
green acorns pink slips into night clouds take cover–seven pm blessed cool swim through the still-languid air sweat graces the back apples at the farmer’s market – Frances Donovan 8/19/2010
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Tagged autumn, moon, on being a new englander, poetry, poetry - mine, summer, wheel of the year
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June haiku
Laying in the grass High summer breezes, tall trees Rustle in the wind
Posted in poetry
Tagged boston, haiku, poetry - mine, summer
