bright morning moon
peers through gleaming oak
at rising sun
***
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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Diane, 1954?
And to sisterly conversations. My Number One Unplanned Series. Early last July, I decided to engage Diane in sisterly conversations. Read the rest of this entry »
wren song greets the day
bare bone trees and steel-gray sky
drop into background
‘Tis the season to be jolly, right? It all depends. George MacDonald’s opening line for his December sonnets describes a state in which I find myself these days:
I am a little weary of my life….
He inquires about his weariness. Perhaps it’s from something that’s meant to be.
Shall fruit be blamed if it hang wearily
A day before it perfected drop plumb
To the sad earth from off its nursing tree? Read the rest of this entry »
~~~~~Skyline Memorial Gardens, Portland, Oregon
I’m drifting
Tumbling through air
I reach for support
Search for you
But you elude me
Lost in sorrow and regret.
Are you lonely
without your Girls?
What can I offer
you now?
I’m not sure.
Maybe this will do
I want to write to you
Now and then
To tell you what’s happening
What I’m thinking about
What I’d like to ask you
Or say to you today
I don’t have a plan
I’m looking for
your heart so
mine can
rest.
Elouise
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 2 December 2014
Photo Credit: DAFraser, September 2014
Each fall I think about what might have been. Hopes, dreams, plans. One by one, the leaves drop to the ground. Dead? Maybe. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been an age since I first met you—
You there, looking back at me
Three score years plus eleven to be exact
You haven’t changed a bit, they say
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gnarled scarred misshapen
trunk stands tall serene exposed
mirror of a soul
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 19 November 2014
Photo credit: DAFraser, November 2014
Longwood Meadow Garden, Forest Edge
Telling the Truth 