@velvet_verse
STONE
Sitting in the riverbed for centuries / Telling time in ways we cannot read
RAIN
Running off the eaves into the barrel / A grey curtain softening the hillside
FLAME
Finding your direction in the warmth of what you love / Looking for the source of what compels you leads to the core
LAKE
Lying flat between the hills like rest / A calm that holds the sky and keeps it still
GRIEF
Going on is a kind of love for them / Reaching for the phone before you remember
SAND
Scattered by the gale into our eyes / All the castles gone before the tide
PINE
Particular green that does not change with season / Into the high wind it leans and does not snap
PEACE
Petals fall without a sound / Every breath a small release
LAMP
Lamp at its best when the afternoon is grey / A small commitment to continuing into the evening
STONE
Sitting where the glacier left it centuries ago / This particular cold nothing else quite matches
GLEE
Growing large with something uncontained / Light that breaks through just for you
SKY
Still above everything that tries to reach it / Keeping every bird it ever held in memory
SLEEP
Side of the bed that is always yours / Later than intended but earlier than last week
PINE
Pointing straight and still into the cold / Its resin smell outlasts every season
REEF
Revealed at low tide as a different country / Each pool a universe in miniature
SCENT
Soap still in the air after the shower / Coffee pulling you out of the dream
GRIEF
Going back to find them in a dream / Reaching for a hand that isn't there
HOME
Hanging coat and the transition is complete / Out of the day and into this
SMILE
Somewhere behind the eyes it starts / Moving through a face like light
RAIN
Returning always to the ground it left / At first just a darkening of the stone
PETAL
Pulled loose by one particular wind / Each one falling in its own slow way
SUN
Something changes in the room when it arrives / Under every shadow it has placed a warmth
FOG
From the sea it climbs the cliffs at night / Once it settles the lighthouse earns its keep
PEACE
Pulling back the curtain on the noise / Every exhale softens something
WAVE
Waking me long before the alarm / Arriving always from the same direction
RAIN
Reaching the garden it slows into kindness / Among the stones it finds its way to roots
ELATE
Electricity inside a quiet afternoon / Light arriving faster than you track
SLEEP
Settled into the familiar weight of the blanket / Late evening and the eyes making the decision
DREAD
Drawn toward tomorrow with a heavy step / Reading shadows that are not yet cast
CREEK
Chattering over the pebbled shallow bed / Running its small errand to the river
MEAN
More than words, the intention behind them is the meaning / Every message carries two things: what is said and what is felt
STORM
Spending itself against the coast all night / The morning quiet sharper for the contrast
KNOW
Knowledge starts with admitting all you do not know / Nothing understood too quickly stays understood for long
PRIDE
Pressing upward from the ground / Rising tall in your own truth
CALM
Counting breaths until they slow / A stillness found beneath the noise
SAFE
Softly landing in a trusted place / All the vigilance put gently down
STONE
Sitting where the glacier left it centuries ago / This particular cold nothing else quite matches
DOOR
Doors are only problems for the ones who need to stay put / Out beyond the threshold waits everything that is not yet yours
HAPPY
Here the days run slower and feel full / A laugh that rises past the tired face
LOVE
Light that follows even into shadow / Often showing up unasked and uninvited
REED
Rising where the water meets the land / Every autumn bending lower with the seed
GLEN
Granite walls on either side of the path / Larks somewhere above the cloud line calling
MARSH
Mud and sky and water undecided / All the reeds together in the late light
AMEND
Acknowledging what was wrong and moving toward correction is strength / Making right what was made wrong is not weakness, it is wholeness
ROAD
Rain just stopped and the world is washed clean / One lane narrowing where the roadworks still sit