Sonomabuzz

Author: Gerry

  • Did I tell you I became a poet?

    her life spreads out across us and time
    time and I went to counseling
    time passed
    time failed
    I passed through my past
    to my present world
    time past
    was time hailed
    for us
    to pass on through
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  • three hawks

    The hawk of Paulin 030316

    I saw three hawks one day last week
    One sat on a pole
    but a pair flew gloriously
    up the currents over the hill
    and down to me.

    Then today a hawk was sleeping on my way to work
    The hawks show me they are watching
    The hawks remind me of the movement of life
    Like wind pushing over the land
    Is it the same spirit that glides overseeing the path I take?
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    The hawk of Paulin 030316

    Contrite
    is
    humility
    with
    acceptance
    and
    a
    determination
    to
    move
    forward

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  • trust

    Petaluma scenes

    What happens to trust
    In the rise and fall of human relations
    Trust winds its way from the beginning to the place of existence
    When trust and its existence are breached
    It renews itself or falls
    Trust is the foundation of relationships
    Trust brings satisfaction and connection and sometimes joy
    Trust builds upon itself like a swallows nest
    Each part dabbed onto the form of trust to make it stronger
    Trust breached is restored in its willingness
    To be honest
    Trust is lost by the transgression
    And also in the cover up
    Trust is reborn in the acceptance of the truth
    And the reconciliation
    Love is not blind
    Love is kind
    Trust is not a fractured nest unless it is
    Like the wind beneath the wings
    Trust flies and knows upon its return
    it will dab upon the cracks
    The stuff of renewal
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    Petaluma scenes

  • light of days

    Petaluma scenes

    Start with kindness
    Reflect on what you find in
    The opportunities of each day

    Move on to joy
    Shining behind tomorrow
    As it arises nearly present

    Find time to act
    Clearly driven by kindness
    In moments of uncertainty

    Hold to the past
    As lessons taken forward
    Illuminate the path of life

    Let the future
    Shape, but not ordain, becoming
    Become a light shining backward

    Illumined path
    Intentions moving through time
    Opportunities for kindness

    The light of days
    Neither fixed or still will
    guide the pathways of kindness

    The light of days
    Either fixed or still will
    guide the pathways of kindness

    The light of days
    Neither fixed or still can
    Not guide the pathways of kindness
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  • the crush

    And thus goes the crush
    rolling on to the juice vat
    hearing Bacchus call
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  • of life somehow

    Late summer scenes

    Glass is complex, as are our feelings of love and loss and love.
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    Housing Matters

    What does a state of grace allow? ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
    Does the soul transform?
    Are we there somehow?
    Compassion has tears
    That look at the fears
    Which do not matter now.
    Bodies and minds
    Coming to find
    The whole of life somehow.

    #‎livepoetry
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    160529 Bantam (53)

    Full morning basket
    happily guides perspective
    to see the simple.
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  • California sky

    Sonoma views

    California sky
    over vineyards and food
    the place I call home
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  • souls roll by

    Art of stone in a garden

    Our most tender
    are our most wounded
    they lose the strength
    and they find it again
    in moments of hope
    you rise above it all
    in moments of pain
    you crash down again.
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    The souls roll by on the road of life
    Tiny dreams in a steady stream
    Propel each one to a place uncertain
    Languishing in the early morn
    Not forming thoughts full enough to grasp
    Holding out some hope of a larger meaning today.
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  • Be kinda kind

    Art of stone in a garden
    Settle in for the night
    Let your mind relax
    And your eye gaze soft
    The answer is kindness
    Be kind
    To Yourself
    Be kind
    Be yourself
    Be kind
    Be kinda kind
    Be yourself
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  • morning sight

    Sunday morning sight
    purple and green and yellow
    chickens in delight
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