spirituality – Page 5 – One Woman's Quest

Bald Eagle

I am in awe of the eagles who have made our neighbourhood home. To see them up close is such a blessing.

For Granny Shot It’s Bird of the Day, and for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge: pure/ serene.)

Persistence

Relentless this turmoil,
fear-driven storm
battering psyche,
beating me down…

Hope trails,
a gossamer thread,
a faint flutter,
refusing to die.

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Life’s Promise

If only I could bloom a rhapsody,
gentles river song for sound…

will remember your promise –
respect another soul,
honour their life,

that between each beat
emotion felt, true music,
innocent but strong

thanking your lift,
favouring the gift –
seek its fill.

(Fridays are magnetic poetry. Play online. Featured image from personal collection. Design available on Redbubble, KnutsonKr8tions.)

Promised

What life tears apart
nature mends – cyclical flow,
divinely decreed.

(For RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge: rip/mend)
Image from personal collection.

Floral Messages

What if each soul,
in passing,
casts a seed
upon the earth –

and with each Spring,
the seeds burst
with beauty,
as a reminder

of the blessing
that is life.

Needing a Sign

Restlessness accompanies me
on the sojourn today –
unfazed by ripe red
belly of robin,
or shimmering emerald
of breeding merganser’s crown.

My lens seeks out decay –
rotting wood, darkened cavities –
as if my soul craves reassurance
that life persists even where death
hovers – I need a sign.

Discontent, I move on –
drive the river road,
snail pace – praying for
something to shake
this malaise –
birds come and go,
trees radiate Spring green,
I pause, unmoved.

And then I spot it –
across the river, high up –
a massive hulk –
lens raises, adjusts, snaps –
the regal hunter turns towards me,
regards me with ferocious intensity,
does not falter on his perch –

All-seeing, fearless,
he is spirit-manifested,
a messenger, lifting me
from stagnation –
momentary redemption.

(Linking up with my weekly challenge: in-between.)

Death Reveals Inadequacy

Mother is fearful,
time slipping through her fingers,
loneliness enveloping her.

I hold space for her in my thoughts,
my heart aching in beat with hers.

Guilt tosses me up and down –
inadequacy knows no bests.

It

Brightest, like frost,
a moister dawn…

Did I live in peace?
Feel ancient life,
forest sanctuary,
stone moss?

The that do like him
soon rising
& almost dark,
I, insect, fall.

(Another Friday, another Magnetic poetry session.)

Connectivity

City life, blinding –
isolated cells of artificial
illumination,
ignoring a higher plan –
heaven’s connectivity.

(Written for Willow Poetry’s What Do You See? prompt which is the featured image.)

Disconnect

Narrow passages,
spiritual spires set bar –
minded not teachings,
constraint of hypocrisy
oppressed connection to God.

(Written in response to Willow Poetry’s “What Do You See?” challenge, with the promptings of Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge: narrow/ minded.)