HERE'S SOME MEDICINE FOR WEARINESS

 

The natural world's

cradle and cure
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It's coverings, it's creatures
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that's where to
 FOCUS
*
ground on truths that underlie
our pitiful human condition
*
When cities
swarms of people
politics and deceits
cruelties
defeats of compassion
overwhelm
be reminded, renewed, refreshed, reset
re-tuned to reality there

- only there -

Nature at Worst or Best
does not disappoint
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Those stately storms that come and go
that robin returning to nest each spring
clouds in wonderful array
struggling
street trees
a night breeze
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the fall arrives
golden leaves
turn
to rot
food for soil.

- all this and more -

How brilliantly
blue black sage bloomed against blood red
hollyhock
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dear rock doves scratch for food everywhere
in cracked cement
*
undaunted
Ialanthus

shooting roots in all directions
throwing seeds in huge array

no matter whose intention to eliminate them from this
architecture
of stones

- all these and more-

sunsets

flooding eyes with last light
so many moonrise moments,
*
phase to phase
*
waxing or waning,
they delight
*
every thing
a
blessing
 
- all this -

everything

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