Gregorian Chant: A Haiku

Ancient words now sung
Prayers chanted, incense rising
Candlelit stone walls


So many memories within cathedral walls. Chanted prayer always makes my heart soar. Gently, though, like a bird on the wing. Not garish as a jet.

Thursday morning in Seattle

​A cold, dark morning

Covers provide resistance

Though I must rise now

Awoke to rains rage
Where I’d resist the outdoors
I’m safe on my couch



I’m a product of Seattle. So much time in the rain, it defines me. I remember a moment, so many years ago, sitting in my apartment, looking out over Seattle with coffee and a good book. With nowhere I needed to go, nor be, I sat in the window bay watching the rain splatter upon the glass, gravity writing it’s magic. 

I love the haiku

I love the haiku 

Gentleness in the small size 

Grace in simpleness


Perhaps you’d figured this out about me by now. 

A Wednesday Meditation

Now the week’s middle

So very much left to do

This steady constant

The Great Blue Heron

This gangly bird
Inelegant legs, bearing
Ghost upon the marsh

Yosemite

Majestic mountains
Magnificent light falling
Tranquility’s song

 

In The Face Of The Horrible

Face the horrible
The waves of sadness and pain
Find strength together

 

Seattle’s Rain Arrived

Raindrops tap windows

Gusts rattling the dried leaves

Autumnal cold rain 


The predicted reasons have come. Trees bend in the breeze, leaves drift across my drive. Summer’s memory flutters within the dried, damp leaves.