Given

 

 

Accept

what is given;

give thanks for

today.

 

Make the ordinary

extra ordinary;

and give it back

again.

 

Pray.

 

©  2013  Richard Havenga





 



 

 

 

 

Photo Location:

 

Parnell,  (St. Patrick's Church)  Kent County,  Michigan 

 

 

Horizontality II

well beyond sunset

Lake Michigan horizon

colors fading fast

 

©  2013  Richard Havenga

 

 

 

 

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Photo Location:  Grand Haven,  (Grand Haven)  Michigan  (Michigan)

Relentless

             ocean
                            churning
                                              against
                                                               continents,

          relentless
                             waves
                                              mocking
                                                                 time...

         forever.

Photo Location:

Pacific Grove, (Pacific Grove)  California 

tempus fugit

soft shades of yellow

last night's raindrops cling to twig

drops and leaves will fall

 

 

©  2013  Richard Havenga

 

 



 

 

 

Sugar Maple - Acer saccharum  (Acer saccharinum) 

 

Photo Location:

 

Townsend Park,  (Townsend)  Kent County,  Michigan (Michigan)

 

 

 



Strip Trees Show

After a hard freeze,
at twenty degrees,
our Red Oak trees
lost their leaves
in a November breeze.

 

©  2013  Richard Havenga

Photo Location:

Home Woods

Veteran's Day II

No words
can embrace
the immense gratitude
I feel for our U.S. Veterans
who paid the
ultimate sacrifice
for our freedom. 

See also: Veteran's Day  November 11, 2012



Photo Location:

Santa Fe National Cemetery  (Veteran's Cemetery)  Santa Fe,  (Santa Fe) New Mexico (NM)

High Silence

A soft-edged cirrus
drifts slowly overhead.

A white feather
gliding in high silence
from west to east.

Like the last bird
of evening.





Photo Location:

Home Land

Slicing the Dawn

Crows burst
through morning fog
on ebony wings;
like blades, glossy
with blackness.

Slicing the dawn,
slashing the silence,
proclaiming their
presence.

©  2013  Richard Havenga

Photo Location: 

Home Woods

Filled

What
God has
provided:

A long life
of awareness
and astonishment.

Fully awake.
Fully present.
Shared with purpose.

Remarkably impressed.
Abundantly blessed.
Gratitude expressed.

©  2013  Richard Havenga



Photo Locations:

Tin Cup,  Colorado (Colorado)







Cloud Music

While you read "Cloud Music", play this segment from Beethoven's 6th Symphony:

Pastoral Symphony

What kind of music
is streaming from above;
pouring through holes
in the stratus various
blanket?

Does it contain
tenderness and yearning,
filling with desire,
or late evening melancholy,
flooding with memories?

Alive
in the moment,
listening to the performance,
grateful for God's gifts
at the close of this day.

On invisible instruments
the music has played.
Absorbed within, during
this fragment of time,
this fleeting moment.

While clouds thicken
and the horizon darkens,
the cold winds of November
carry the music
away.

©  2013  Richard Havenga

Photo Location: 

Ada Township,  Kent County,  Michigan (Michigan)