Walk With Father Nature: April 2020

Monday, April 27, 2020

Please

We are given so much
that we don't need to own.

The sky is free.
Ask the circling hawks
or the swarming flocks.

The whispering breeze
that just brushed your face;
did it speak to you?
Were you listening?

The silent, magical light
bathing the evening trees.
Have you known its warmth?

Your job is to love this world,
and to share what you've learned.
Can you do that?

Please.

Photo Locations:

1. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge - Socorro, New Mexico

2. Grand Teton National Park - Wyoming

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Baptized

Silent as seeds
from the soil,
words emerge;

baptized
like a sacrament,

inside the soothing song
of this soft spring rain.

Photo Locations:

1. Grattan Township - Kent County - Michigan

2. Rocky Mountain National Park - Colorado

Monday, April 20, 2020

Vascular

In these spring trees
sap is rising up the xylem
in tiny hidden tubes
within the cambium.

Climbing against gravity,
seeking the highest heights.
earnest to swell new buds
at the tender tips of twigs.

Purposed to expand new leaves
that can gather precious sunlight
and send a new kind of energy
down the phloem: C6 H12 O6.

Photo Locations:

1. American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) - Home Woods - Cannonsburg, Michigan

2. Red Maple (Acer rubrum) - Home Woods - Cannonsburg, Michigan

Friday, April 17, 2020

prayer winds

here in the foothills

the wind that follows sunset

brings a prayer of thanks

Photo Location:

Absoroka Range - Pray, Montana

Monday, April 13, 2020

Aware of a poem taking shape in his mind,
he felt the presence of the Holy Spirit
looking over his humble, meager lines,
suggesting some additions, a few revisions.

Then the clouds opened,
and the stars
that were hidden
became visible.

Words appeared.
Bright with promise.