Poetry

The Darkest Night

/ Apple Hill Cottage / 6 Comments 
He comes to bring the light
to a dark and broken world.
    We know at some time, some place
    we will all face
    that darkness, that brokenness, that fear...
    Knowing does not make it any easier to hear
    or speak out loud.

But Remembering

He comes to bring the light
to a dark and broken world.
     Over and over, again
     I bring my pain
     to the one who knows, who listens, who calms...
     His outstretched hands are a balm
     to my weary soul.

   

Whether your anxiety is from a diagnosis, the shape of the world, the upcoming election, a broken relationship, or simply the coming dark and cold… Call to mind his face. He brings light, and peace, and strength to face those very fears.

Dancing in Fall

/ Apple Hill Cottage / 11 Comments

The sky invites
The sycamores to dance.
Bare branches
Bend and sway
Curtsying to one another
In proper fashion.
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Meanwhile the leaves have flown.
They turn up around back
Loitering by the steps,
Rabble rousing and wild dancing…
Waiting for the night wind
to whisk them away.

I’m very thankful that the leaves in the country don’t require raking, piling, bagging, and stacking. The night wind just whisks them away…

 

This is reposted from November three years ago, because, yeah, leaves…

Fire on the Next Hill

/ Apple Hill Cottage / 16 Comments

last night
a fiery orange light
glowed ferociously
on the next hill.
i thought the Blakers’
barn was burning.
(i left my warm bed and stepped outside for a better view.)

the flames
leaped into the black
and devoured the trees
of the horizon.
i thought the still-green leaves
in the valley between
will keep us safe.
(my husband joined me to witness the spectacle.)

then the triangle
of flames and fire
suddenly settled into
a sideways orange half moon.
61.2% rising ENE
at 11:16 p.m
i thought when has a half-moon-rising
ever been fire in the sky.
(we laughed at one more
2020 wildness.)

my skittish, sheepish
thoughts morphed like moonfire
into a silent prayer.
Lord of the moon, the sky, the earth,
protect us from fires raging
in the darkness
and turn them into
just a spectacular autumn moonrising
in the night sky.
(i slept the weighted, dreamless sleep of peace.)