Tag: poem

  • Summer poems 2012 – July

    070912 Bolling Memorial Grove
    There are certain spots
    Always in the shade of trees
    Never direct sun
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    A baby redwood
    Small of girth can grow to be
    A forest giant
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    Where does the smoke go
    As it wafts from wood through fire
    Like thought’s energy
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    Insular cortex
    Physical temperature
    Emotional warmth
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    Counting pockets on a fishing vest, Gerry said, This one has fourteen pockets.” Anne said, “Better than a mini-van.”
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    Upon finding a cabin, a cliff and a river it was written

    An accidental
    Adventure into the past
    Sunny river day
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    Ineradicable
    Unpredictability of
    Quantum physics
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    Fireside memory
    Blue turns to black then to gray
    Then it turns to ash
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    Balanced o’er the flame
    Until embers took a piece
    Of heart and soul
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    072612 Grover Hot Springs 038
    The sun on the trees
    The chill in the air
    The warmth of the fire
    The jays calling
    The mountain air crisp
    With promise of
    A new day
    And hot springs
    Relaxation
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    Fire renews the soul
    Warmth and light yet consuming
    Forms shift like spirit
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    For the poker stick

    Like flaming prayer
    Guide wood reached out for heaven
    Ember memories
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  • In the end all the dreams just scatter

    In the end all the dreams just scatter
    Like a kaleidoscope that lost its symmetry
    Across time and space no matter what humans think
    In the end potential flows every which way

    What might have been and what had to be
    Blend in memory like history
    The truth or the perception matters not to me
    Now has passed into the past
    That neither grief nor sorrow nor wishes nor prayers can renew

    In the end all the dreams just scatter
    So vivid in our sleep, or the days of youth,
    As time and distance mix together
    To form imagined dreams and foggy memory

    The past has flown down past the shore
    Though no one is standing there
    All are in the river of scattered light
    Moving on like a kaleidoscope
    That was never meant to have symmetry

    Time swirls in eddies mixing hopes and dreams
    The light of deep pools of thoughts gathered once
    Evaporate as some relationships do.
    Upstream gathered together
    Then downstream mists of thought

    Down to the sea of being flow our dreams
    Some complete; some unfulfilled
    As water distorts the light
    so time or thought erodes our dreams together
    In the end all the dreams have scattered

    Written 07/02/2012 Gerry La Londe-Berg

    Russian River meets the sea at Jenner

  • rest in peace

    St. Rose Church Baptismal font

    The grace of the Creator finds the souls

    The father who did the best he could
    May his soul rest in peace

    The young woman who struggled and strived and fell to evil
    May her soul rest in peace

    The child who lost her life from the death brought by war
    May her soul rest in peace

    The son, the daughter, the child, the adult
    The joy and the sorrow that will not be known
    Because their souls rest in peace

    May their souls rest in peace
    May their life’s lessons be made clear to the souls yet to find peace

    [All souls’ mass at St. Rose]

    Of sadness and lost joy

  • Haiku for the moment

    California Poppies
    Some things we see are
    just inadvertently fun
    That’s why we do this
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    Eclipse shadows and light-12
    The quality of light
    The manifestations of light
    The sun, the moon and the earth align
    And show the shadows of our being
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    White flowers blooming
    Beauty adds to our healing
    soul connects to mind

    Orchids @ UCSF China Basin
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  • Poems are words

    Poems are words
    Floating in the air
    Blown on the wind
    Spinning about
    With their own meaning
    Lonely until joined together
    By a thought

    A statement flows
    But it is no poem
    Directions are given
    But those words are not a poem, usually
    Random thoughts expressed
    As words
    Come closer to being a poem

    Then a phrase,
    A joining, or a theme emerges

    Some words are grasped
    And drawn down
    To paper or voice
    So they can be repeated

    Once captured from the wind
    Together they can form
    A poem
    Good or bad
    A poem nonetheless
    And the joiner of words
    Gathered from the random wind
    Becomes a poet

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  • April 2012 – Life and the events It is both more and less than it appears to be.

    Flowers in March 2012
    About to burst out
    Rain nor wind inhibit it
    Potential beauty
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    Giants stand tall
    Shrouded in the morning fog
    Soon the sun will shine.

    Swift the river flows
    Swollen by the falling rain
    Stained brown by the earth

    Women making plans
    The bond between them grows strong
    Sisters standing tall

    Those are lovely
    The wilderness suits you well
    with modern comfort.
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    There he goes again
    another exuberant
    life adventurer
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    Paulin Creek after a rain-4
    “So many poems happen at the intersection of time and eternity”

    Marie Howe on NPR
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    The God in you is
    The God you alone let through.
    To shine on the world
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    When we have doubt it
    Paralyzes certainty
    Life is uncertain.
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    Life’s vicissitudes
    Opportunity for choice
    Learn to love cactus
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    Graffiti on wall
    Real or just an illusion
    Like your city life?

    Pattern Interrupt
    A photo by Orin Zebest

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    “Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”

    “Through compassion our humanity grows into its fullness.”

    Nouwen-McNeill-Morrison in Compassion
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    Tulips are fading
    In the early summer heat
    Yellowed Spring flowers

    Tulips have faded
    What can replace them today
    Besides memory

    Tulips can return
    Nurtured with love from the past
    New color and joy found
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    Flowers in March 2012 - rain drops
    Behind closed eyelids
    An orange like no other
    In springtime sunshine
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    4/30/2012 12:53 PM

    Life and the events
    It is both more and less than
    it appears to be.
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  • March 2012 – renewal toward Spring

    Finding faith to walk
    In immortality now
    Opening present
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    In the gray garden
    I heard a spiritual voice
    Opening up the world
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    Ya, the weird is world
    We that knew every sunrise
    Something more daily
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    Blue sky going now
    Clouds are moving overhead
    Winter has its way
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    Shadows show light
    Seeking the light
    Will lead to becoming
    A person of no shadow
    Because the light
    Shines through you
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    Lost days of healing
    So many things have happened
    Unexpected years
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    Golden Gate Bridge 070111-7
    Golden bridge rising
    That was the bridge often crossed
    Memories rising
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    “They say time changes things but actually you have to change them yourselves”
    Andy Warhol
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    Shadows of the earth
    Across celestial spaces
    Waxing or waning?
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    “People,
    because of a lack of knowledge and training,
    view life as through a key hole.
    People,
    therefore, see only a very small portion
    of the actual picture.”

    Sophia Williams
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    Blossoms in early Spring-2
    Green buds on white bark
    Trees of the whole world renew
    The air, and, our hope
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  • February 2012 – in a special way

    Yes, God has blessed you in a special way.
    The Creator is revealed through the things of life.
    St. Rose Church Baptismal font
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    020312 China Basin SF 072
    Bridge across the sky
    Shrouded foggy mystery
    Dear companion

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    Hazy blue winter
    Cold air and wind in my face
    Invigorate life
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    An owl was calling
    On a star filled winter night
    Not my name, a call
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    A call echoed crisp
    To live in light and darkness
    As if the last day
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    Luminous silence
    Dampens the cacophony of
    Ordinary days
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    Without a winter
    The stars cannot shift across
    Another night sky
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    The flowers push through
    Never a frozen hard ground
    Led at such ease
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    Pink and gray and blue
    Over the rim of the earth
    The transition hour

    Orange cusp of sun
    Obscured among scattered clouds
    Brings the light of dawn
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    St. Rose Church and tree
    No body is no body
    Thus we are all only spirit
    As body does not limit
    And mind achieves a balance
    Of no concern
    Because there is no body
    Only eternal ever growing
    Spirit in a soul
    Each soul moving toward
    External bliss
    By simple coexistence
    With the almighty
    Ever lasting
    creation
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    I was always an optimist
    seeing the hopeful side of things.
    As a young child I was the optimistic helper and pleaser.
    Then I became the lucky optimist – fortunately sliding through the teen years.
    The naïve optimist worked for years
    thinking I understood change
    and could change people and systems.
    Moving through time the realistic optimist realized
    there were limits to one person’s ability to move the Whole forward.
    The optimistic fatalist emerged
    to graciously accept what the fates bestowed.
    What kind of optimist will I be next?
    The optimist of the light?
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    Gotta make it in
    Under the invisible
    wire of time today
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    I can only say
    All I can think of is you.
    Our love overwhelms

    You are always so
    Awesome, brave and beautiful
    Oh my beloved one

    It is bittersweet
    Grandeur to reside in the
    Temple of our love

    Happy to be here
    In a manner of speaking
    Just being with you

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    Monterey Bay Aquarium-01
    Happy to be here
    In a manner of speaking
    Just being with you
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  • Held in the hand of the Creator

    Something permanent and long lasting flows out of each person
    like ink to paper flows through the writing instrument.
    The ink has form and function
    but only becomes meaningful and significant
    when held in the hand of the Creator.

    The pen does not resist moving
    nor the ink form its own words.
    The tinge of color becomes something else,
    something more,
    when it flows out of the tip
    and shows the words.

    And all of us, each person, is as different as can be.

    Yet the Creator can pick up any pen
    and form words of beauty and higher meaning
    so long as the pen does not resist
    and the ink flows.
    We each let the ink form meaning.
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  • January 2012 – Lives respond to thunder

    Upon taking a hike

    Quiet forest grove
    Important sole audience
    The love of my life.
    Hike #1 - Spring Lake 010112-08
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    Green ferns and brown leaves
    Wet still with morning fog drops
    Quiet so quiet
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    Power from above
    The abyssal mercy of God
    In you (me) here and now
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    Wine flows out soothing
    Like teardrops that need to flow
    Some days are like that
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    She had to observe
    I see you’ve stolen my pen
    The haiku master
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    13,000th Flickr Picture
    Revelations of
    Vaguely remembered things
    Flit across the mind
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    Quiet but busy
    Time examining others
    While writing my own
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    Plaque from an award
    Dripping with irony but
    Drops dry out with time
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    Clouds
    Question of the Day: How can you tell if a cloud is upside down?
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    Hike #3 - Spring Lake 010712-02
    I hope the sun warms
    Your day and your loving heart
    It shines on us both
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    Oh, evening star
    Western symbol of beauty
    Simple joy of life
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    Respond to thunder
    A deep roar in the distance
    Lions on the move

    A deep roar in the night
    Lives respond to thunder
    Nature calls to them
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    Shadow man sitting
    Reflecting of life’s quiet
    Straight anomalies
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    Sit in the quiet
    Until cats interrupt you
    Meditation space?
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    Curse progenerates
    Blessings upon these others
    Energy redeemed
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    The changing of day
    Every day looking upon
    The world from on high
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    All our days living
    Are not spent, rather borrowed,
    Time only used once
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    Be as a brush held
    In the hand of the Creator
    to create art in the world.
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    Kindness of a child
    An offering of goodness
    A simple package
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    He’s writing today
    Then he’s riding somewhere too
    Then writing again
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