tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26678696085725182572024-03-05T13:39:23.912-08:00Listening to the LandA Collection of Free Verse and Short Writings about Nature and Life From the Heart and Inspired by the SoulJohn Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-23422164478711716922016-11-23T18:10:00.001-08:002018-03-29T09:40:18.733-07:00The River<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
River water deepens<br />
Under heavy winter mists<br />
Silver sheets of raindrops<br />
Shroud empty swirling nests<br />
<br />
Low or fully flowing<br />
The river spends its breath<br />
Deftly sorting gravels<br />
Where sockeye salmon nest<br />
<br />
River ever-flowing<br />
Along its ancient course<br />
Wearing through a landscape<br />
That knows the river's source<br />
<br />
River flowing endless<br />
Can never lose its way<br />
Its water streaming forward<br />
Has forgotten where it played</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-88852911479492805382016-11-23T16:18:00.000-08:002018-03-29T09:43:27.445-07:00Pebbles<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
Crunching speckled pebbles<br />
On the shore beneath my feet<br />
Reminding me of people<br />
All the same and yet unique<br />
<br />
Shifting in the breaking surf<br />
Drying in the sun<br />
Pebbles lying on the beach<br />
Rest before they run<br />
<br />
Pebbles at the mercy<br />
Of waves and winter tides<br />
Waiting for the right time<br />
To turn and sink and rise</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-26259568491714302152016-07-04T18:08:00.000-07:002017-02-07T10:39:22.912-08:00Summer Seed<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Life wrapped me in its warmth<br />
Now, kindled by its light<br />
I long to burn strong<br />
And I long to burn bright<br />
<br />
Snuggled inside nature<br />
An ever-changing song<br />
Inside its perfect ocean<br />
A heartbeat bumps along</span></span></span></div><br />
John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-72957545087505151272016-05-29T20:35:00.000-07:002017-02-02T19:22:10.674-08:00Kitty<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Cloaked in grey, white and black<br />
The cat was easily overlooked<br />
On a ledge of the bare rock face<br />
That spans across the back yard<br />
He was waiting perfectly still<br />
Under gentle swaying shadows<br />
Of leaves and branches that float<br />
Silently across the rock face<br />
The Kitty holds motionless<br />
An ancient predator is hiding<br />
Still and silent on a rock ledge<br />
<br />
I noticed him waiting there<br />
And felt the timeless danger<br />
Of that steady threatening gaze<br />
As the backyard predator crouched<br />
I watched and waited in frozen time<br />
While bees buzzed with purpose<br />
And Butterflies fluttered loops<br />
Above and below the hidden cat<br />
Unaware of his presence<br />
While Kitty was just being <br />
Just who he's always been</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-43614920604712242122016-05-11T09:23:00.002-07:002016-05-11T16:34:19.618-07:00Spring Breeze<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Leaves unseen in the first breeze of spring<br />
All found places on bare branches of winter trees<br />
Not even one single leaf was left unfastened<br />
They attached, then unfurled and grew so fast<br />
I hardly even noticed them appear in my garden<br />
Now every leaf instinctively follows the sun<br />
Holding forever to branches over fresh cut grass<br />
The leaves rustle in the cool afternoon breeze<br />
As the spring wind plays with the chime<br />
That hangs expectantly at a corner of our porch<br />
Hummingbirds, bees and dragonflies are working<br />
Adding their life music to the rustle of new leaves<br />
While the neighbour muscles an old power mower<br />
Over large rocks hidden in the tall grass<br />
Scattered here and there in a neglected yard<br />
That sound overwhelms the delicate symphony<br />
of Spring that I have been listening to<br />
<br />
When the breeze falls off<br />
And the power mower stops<br />
The wind chimes hang silent<br />
But now I hear the song of a Robin<br />
running across the yard<br />
And the buzz of a black bee squeezing<br />
Under sun warmed siding behind me<br />
As the cat sleeps curled</span></span></span></div>
John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-78525809205557463772016-05-08T13:11:00.000-07:002017-02-02T19:22:47.496-08:00Seeing and Believing<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
There are some things<br />
We can never really see<br />
The sun shines so bright<br />
It overwhelms our vision<br />
And the universe of stars<br />
That burn bright beyond it<br />
Never appear with the sun<br />
Yet they're certainly there<br />
<br />
Special is the quiet star<br />
When we glimpse it in the sky<br />
If we try to look right at it<br />
It disappears from our sight<br />
Though we know it is there<br />
Just like the sun<br />
Just like a distant star<br />
Just like God</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-16154455831791770192016-03-31T12:28:00.000-07:002017-04-10T10:02:25.299-07:00Thankyou<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
The empty echoing call<br />
From the Raven's darkness<br />
Pierces the silent forest<br />
Seaking out a hint of Spring<br />
<br />
The loud and wooden drumming<br />
Of a Woodpecker on his tree<br />
Establishing a territory<br />
Before he feeds on ants<br />
<br />
A couple walking down a country lane<br />
Hand-in-hand, crunches crisp on gravel<br />
Far away somewhere<br />
Plans with other words<br />
<br />
Thankyou for this dream</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-91133786120158547502016-01-27T17:46:00.000-08:002017-02-02T19:26:08.494-08:00Sing To Me Wind<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Sing to me wind<br />
Shaking the branch<br />
Speak to me wave<br />
Soaking the beach<br />
Stand over me tree<br />
Strong in the storm<br />
<br />
Am I the only thing<br />
That doesn't know<br />
Where I should be?<br />
Am I the only one<br />
That doesn't know<br />
What I should do?<br />
<br />
I can hear the wind<br />
I can see the waves<br />
I can feel the rain<br />
As I search my heart<br />
But still I don't know<br />
What I must do</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-69611940767444387282015-10-18T09:31:00.000-07:002017-02-02T19:29:08.331-08:00Late Autmn Light<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
The sharpened steel<br />
Of autumn's Light<br />
Spills soft colours<br />
Over rippled skin<br />
On the Salish sea<br />
Cutting summer free<br />
Along a distant bank<br />
Of autumn coloured cloud<br />
That reaches deep into<br />
Silent dark water<br />
<br />
I sit on this boat<br />
Passing by logs<br />
Washed to the sea<br />
Like floating bones<br />
From flooded banks<br />
As I search for whales<br />
<br />
Tethered in her berth<br />
Rounded waves reflect<br />
Off the steel hull<br />
And run politely<br />
Under black ripples<br />
Shivered by the breeze<br />
That finds us all waiting<br />
Before the fog floods in<br />
Damp under darkness</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-29443496385416491242015-08-13T13:37:00.000-07:002015-08-13T13:37:09.581-07:00Be Mine<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hot, Dry, Dusty</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This West Coast
Season of Summer</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After so many
years</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have become
afraid</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And feel very vulnerable</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A small
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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tired</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To find
another's weakness</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In me</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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loving more</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Till death parts
us</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am yours</span></span></span></div>
John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-17263487111282348952015-06-18T14:48:00.001-07:002015-06-18T15:00:32.768-07:00Wilderness Flower<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Love's privilege owes nothing<br />
It's silent miracle<br />
Like sunshine lighting a leaf<br />
Or rain water bathing a root<br />
Nourishes life<br />
Opening us</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-30859500102019861192015-05-11T15:57:00.001-07:002015-10-19T11:18:01.233-07:00Autumn Moon<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
I don't know the tides before me<br />
Like I know the ones before<br />
When my mind launched its thoughts<br />
From a semi-circled shore<br />
Where I floated in the whitecaps<br />
Unafraid when I survived<br />
Now, I only seem to worry<br />
About the next rising tide<br />
The one that comes to claim me<br />
Like all the rest have done<br />
As I swim into the salty foam<br />
And float beneath the sun</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-27845566925102640612015-02-17T14:37:00.000-08:002015-02-18T16:31:56.205-08:00Spring Day<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Spring just broke Winter's track<br />
And cold rain has stopped falling<br />
The sun's azure sky has come back<br />
Tell me now, after this many years<br />
How I could forget Summer's visit?<br />
Long hot days of summer will shimmer<br />
Before I long for Fall's darkness<br />
And winter's wet to reign down<br />
Making me feel life's shortness<br />
But now the tulips are stretching<br />
Up toward their coloured flowers</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-54550598483099389822014-11-22T17:20:00.000-08:002015-01-26T10:32:41.597-08:00Leaves<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Fall leaves don't die...<br />
They just change colour<br />
Before they are another<br />
Just as life might wish<br />
<br />
They work so hard<br />
To help their tree<br />
Until it sets them free<br />
To play with all the others<br />
In a sea of autumn colour<br />
<br />
Plastered to the ground<br />
By the rain that's pelting down<br />
And soaking everything around<br />
Leaves rest near their tree<br />
The ones that set them free<br />
<br />
I may see them all again<br />
If our journey never ends<br />
It may pick us up and then<br />
Cast us all back as friends<br />
</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-79015575099160042452014-11-20T20:43:00.000-08:002014-12-04T11:40:14.401-08:00Fall Day<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today belongs to fall<br />
Its leaves changing and all<br />
As an aimless breeze wanders<br />
I can glimpse sleeping branches<br />
Through coloured cloaks that cling<br />
To broadleaf summer trees<br />
In the forest by my home<br />
<br />
The weeping Birch<br />
Over my ragged garden<br />
Trembles in the Breeze<br />
Yellows and greens flash<br />
As its leaves rattle and spin<br />
At the end of threadlike stems<br />
Leaves strain to leave their tree<br />
It doesn't need them anymore<br />
<br />
Such beauty in life's struggle<br />
<br />
A raven calls from across the field<br />
Before flying straight overhead<br />
I call to it through the miracle<br />
Of its strong swooshing flight<br />
It answers simply to my heart<br />
Fluttering on the top of a Cedar<br />
<br />
A black and blue Stellar Jay<br />
Steals summer's silence<br />
From the autumn day<br />
Calling loudly<br />
From an unseen perch<br />
Behind coloured leaves<br />
Beyond the frosty path<br />
<br />
Not knowing I was there<br />
</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-61220879031056704322014-10-23T19:47:00.002-07:002014-11-12T13:17:46.484-08:00Today<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Today was one of those days<br />
We all ate corn and potatoes<br />
Today was one of those days<br />
It rained cold all day long<br />
Today was one of those days<br />
I used headlights from dawn<br />
Today was one of those days<br />
That will always be ours</span></span></div></span>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-31966338322303933132014-10-19T15:21:00.000-07:002014-10-31T16:29:16.301-07:00October's Wind<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Cloaked under folds of cloud<br />
A cleansing wind gusting loud<br />
Is ripping fists of leaves away<br />
As autumn branches swinging sway<br />
Without a thought, without a care<br />
Coloured leaves fly here and there</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-30158564987035237172014-10-19T13:44:00.000-07:002014-10-19T14:34:03.874-07:00The River<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
The river flows<br />
Waiting for her children<br />
To return<br />
The Smell of fish<br />
In the wet forest<br />
Is her richness<br />
The wealth<br />
Of life's passion</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-75671679088838435122014-10-18T12:44:00.000-07:002014-10-18T12:44:12.731-07:00The Crow<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
The crow stops me in my work<br />
As she flies beside the moon<br />
Now beating in my chest<br />
Her sound belongs<br />
The moon belongs<br />
As spider silk streams<br />
Silver in September wind<br />
Near tall cedar trees<br />
Tied to heaven's door<br />
With freedom</span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-60645333024728324692014-10-07T14:57:00.000-07:002015-03-04T11:07:36.167-08:00Autumn Dance<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Spiders, mushrooms, fall leaves and fish<br />
All practising courage inside the landscape<br />
Arriving with the season's new confidence<br />
Appearing bold before a Winter's white death<br />
Now, it seems too late for anything to rise<br />
And stand upright in this vulnerable world<br />
They bravely waited till everything else hid<br />
Till the warmth of last summer's party ended<br />
When the flying insects withdrew from the air<br />
And the flowers withered back into their soil<br />
Until the sun warms the soil and calls their name<br />
Next spring after winters' wetness has wearied<br />
And the sun holds the land in its hand again</span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-86631434827323589492014-10-02T08:45:00.004-07:002014-10-14T12:26:51.019-07:00Seasons<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
I wonder if insects and flowers<br />
That use their life in a year<br />
Notice the subtle difference<br />
Between a season and a life stage<br />
For us who live a longer time<br />
We know that seasons are cycles<br />
But something that just happens once<br />
Might only be a change<br />
</span></span></span></div>
John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-52103240014795147192014-09-29T12:12:00.002-07:002014-09-30T12:17:01.483-07:00Watching<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Watching it all happen<br />
Wondering why it is<br />
Chasing with a mind<br />
Turning a mind away<br />
Accepting the gift<br />
Knowing it is real<br />
Feeling whole again</span></span></span></div>
John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-47864137568217795212014-09-16T20:53:00.001-07:002014-09-29T12:28:10.508-07:00Excitement<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
September treads without judgement on the end of summer's ribbon<br />
Its days speak warmly of summer as spiders weeve to cool the night<br />
September's dark hangs longer and its nights weigh blurry with mist<br />
The month will promise excitement when cool nights change the air<br />
<br />
The fall wind is blowing chattering all the dry leaves<br />
Some fall free fluttering and tumble to the colored ground<br />
Leaves and geese high overhead both know the world will change<br />
Autumn stirs with this rustle of dry leaves as the grass-fed-geese fly south<br />
Lit homes are warmed beyond the crackle of evening fireplaces<br />
September countryside brings its excitment every autumn<br />
With richer and fuller colours than the city ever knew<br />
<br />
</span></span></span>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-31437808021799773632014-09-10T14:36:00.000-07:002014-09-29T12:18:01.587-07:00Miracle<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Yesterday I saw a miracle<br />
I find some every day<br />
They are so easy to spot<br />
<br />
They can land or perch in trees<br />
Or sing across invisible distances<br />
Or float weightless across the sky<br />
<br />
Now everything I learned so well<br />
At schools before the closing bell<br />
Is lost with words that I can't spell<br />
<br />
While everything that I can see<br />
Smiles openly in greeting me<br />
Sitting here beneath the tree</span></span></span></div>John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667869608572518257.post-14186279997612623732014-06-26T11:36:00.000-07:002016-11-23T21:36:37.412-08:00Living<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">W</span>anting to live every day<br />
When we become older<br />
Sings a blessing to life<br />
But to live every day<br />
When we become older<br />
We must die every night<br /> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A</span>ccepting the past as still<br />
While a future waits for u<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">S</span>himmering<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in</span> t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he</span> darkness<br />
So as we close our eyes<br />
And forgive <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the</span> past<br /> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we are </span>reborn<br />
Here inside <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a</span> miracle<br />
Our work<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> w<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ill </span></span>waits for us</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">G</span>ifts to give and love to share<br />
Before we move on through</span></span></span></div>
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