After living with ALS for 10 years, my sister Diane died in spring 2006. This week I’ve been reading through some of my Houston journal notes. I kept them when I flew to Houston to visit Diane. As I read, I couldn’t help noticing how often Read the rest of this entry »
grass bends at its touch
raptors ride its warm currents
leaves dance in its wake Read the rest of this entry »
morning stars glimmer
half-moon hangs in inky sky
daybreak edges in
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What I saw from my den window Tuesday morning, using my binoculars.
Not the chart–the real thing! Read the rest of this entry »
watercolor clouds
grace windswept cobalt ripples–
trees reach for blue sky
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 10 January 2015
Photo credit: DAFraser, September 2014, Crater Lake, Oregon
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sweet scent of childhood
pink powder-puff luxury
feathers on my face
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 9 January 2015
Photo credit: Mimosa Blossoms, http://www.hiltonpond.org
late afternoon sun
creates illusion of warmth
vanishes from sky
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Jilted!
Distracted by joy Read the rest of this entry »
bright morning moon
peers through gleaming oak
at rising sun
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through binoculars
shadowed face of the moon
radiates white fire
blinks
oak trunk, branches and twigs
glow burnt orange
for seconds
gone
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 8 January 2015
brilliant cardinal
bare brown laurel branches
breathless winter morn
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perched alone Read the rest of this entry »
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