@fading_stars
DESK
Drawer full of things with no category / Everything pushed aside to make space
SNOW
Silence before the first flake lands / Nothing prepared the world for this white
LEAF
Lifted by October into the spinning air / Even now it holds a trace of summer
BEAR
Bearing what is difficult with grace is the greatest show of strength / Even what is heaviest can be carried when the meaning is made clear
YEARN
You wake and reach for something gone / Everything that's left still holds your shape
RAGE
Raw as the wound that no one thought to ask / All the seasons of dismissal rise at once
SEED
Sleeping through the dark months without complaint / Even without sun it knows what it is for
TREE
This old oak has held more than just itself / Roots entwined with the roots of its neighbors
DAWN
Door not yet opened but the light is under it / Air still cold and the blanket still needed
OPEN
Offering space inside yourself for what you do not know / Places not yet visited exist inside the self
WISE
What is wisdom but the lessons that the losses left behind / In the gray areas of life is where most wisdom makes its home
OPEN
Out beyond your assumptions is where the most interesting learning lives / Permitting the unexpected to arrive changes the shape of what is possible
DAWN
Deep quiet before a single bird decides / A breath of cold from the open window
YEARN
You open windows on the absent days / Each familiar corner holds a ghost
WEEP
When the weight exceeds the frame it falls / Everything you held releases now
KIND
Knowing when to speak and when to listen is also a form of kindness / In the ordinary moment, a small act of care changes someone’s whole day
PETAL
Pulled loose by one particular wind / Each one falling in its own slow way
BLOOM
Between the stones the small flower insists / Lavender crowns rising from the roadside crack
STONE
Sitting in the riverbed for centuries / Telling time in ways we cannot read
BLOOM
Bright against the last snow of the season / Leaning from the wall toward the open sun
TOWN
The same road taken on every errand / Our favorite route regardless of the destination
FEAR
Familiar and yet always new, the dread / Even those who know it must step through
MERCY
More than fairness, something like a gift / Every debt that could be held, released
JUBILEE
Just this once the weight lifts off / Under every sky a cause for thanks
LAMP
Late on and the book not yet finished / A small warm radius in the large dark room
FROST
Far into the night it does its quiet work / Riming the grass with a billion silver needles
CHEER
Come and find the one who almost gave up / Here is what belonging sounds like
TIME
The past is just a door that you no longer need / In every ending, something new is taking root
MARSH
Making its own rules about land and water / All of it alive with hidden things
MOON
More than light it is a kind of company / Over the sleeping field it moves alone
AWE
At the threshold of the inexplicable / What you are is smaller and more vast
MIST
Moving in off the water before sunrise / It is both the thing and the hiding of it
LUNCH
Leftover pasta eaten at the counter / Under the fluorescent office ceiling
DESK
Day done and the surface still cluttered / Every cup leaving a ring somewhere
MERCY
Moving past the right to punish / Every debt forgiven quietly
RISE
Returning from the low place is the oldest human story / In the falling, you collect what the standing never finds
CHILD
Carrying something found that must be kept / Heavy sigh at bedtime meaning not yet
TENDER
Trembling at the beauty of the fragile / Every wound wants to be seen with care
LOVE
Long after reason ends, this stays / Only love can hold what logic drops
LOVE
Like sunlight through the thinnest curtain / Opening rooms inside you thought were locked
VIVID
Very present in the ringing now / Inside the moment, color everywhere
MIND
More is held inside you than the conscious part can see / In the unseen layers, patterns older than your thoughts
LILY
Lifting white above the muddy pond / In the still heat of July it opens
CHANGE
Coming to the edge of who you were takes more than bravery / Hard shifts in the ground beneath you can be a beginning
TEARS
The body knows what words refuse / Every drop is something left unsaid
SNOW
Softening the world into unfamiliar shapes / Newly white and silent as held breath
CLAIM
Choosing what is yours by right and holding it without apology / Laying claim to your own story is how you take the pen back
PETAL
Pink and falling from the cherry in the wind / Even the garden path is beautiful today
MERCY
More than fairness, something like a gift / Every debt that could be held, released
SLEEP
Settled into the familiar weight of the blanket / Late evening and the eyes making the decision