a twin hickory nut tree…perfect for a group hug! ✨💚✨
dawn with the birds
when dawn emerges in the foothills, and the blue jays squawk loudly I scatter peanuts, corn, and meal worms to console them, admittedly though, the mealworms are for a murder…of crows who gather when the jays have quieted and had their fill, when the sun is high in the sky, they feast and jabber, hopping happily around my earnest offering while a lone hawk screeches nearby not at all interested in the corn, the peanuts, not even the mealworms, no, the hawk fancies warm-blooded fare a mourning dove who lingered seconds too long at the seed feeder, or perhaps a finch, young squirrel, or chipmunk, though the latter, I have observed are quite adept at evading capture and ultimate slaughter…there are bees buzzing nearby gathering nectar, dusting pollen as they flit, and hummingbirds hover directly in from of me until we are eye to eye, their wings humming, every morning there is want, expectation, joy, connection, unspoken acknowledgement amidst the looming shadow of carnage, drama, survival, life encapsulated in the simplicity of nature, who in her magnificent wisdom sustains us in an unbroken cycle, the seasons, dawn and dusk, day and night, where nothing is personal, malevolent, or cruel i linger long letting the morning gird me, as I listen, observe, and breathe sweetness of a new day before venturing into the harsh reality where self-absorbed humans deny we are all from dust and to dust we are destined to return the dust on my feet and in my lungs remind me to walk gently…to be kind
It has been a few months since I did a ReVerse poem. It’s a little exercise I do to discover where my head was at over a past period of time. I select a favorite line from each day’s writing and mash them into a new poem in sequential order oldest to recent. It shouldn’t work, but surprisingly, it often does. I give you the summer of 2026 in ReVerse!
Summer of 2026 in ReVerse
I’m still here being when i’m dust, may light filtered through stained glass just a glimmer… Escalate… ‘twas not dawn’s first light I am severely distracted in the shadow of the reaper it is safety, and freedom before the world got heavy devouring the dark night I have survived life happened, life kept happening steam rising from the pavement we remain a fractured fail, sorry celebrating diversity we’re reminded we are one fierceness is just hot air to write or not to write… Put your feet up and rest it is a good day if there is such a place too ignorant to realize I breathe, intentionally, deeply, even the trees look weary, …we can shed what no longer serves us
Let’s start with the good stuff…glimmers of course! ✨🌿✨
great-granddaughter, Lilah Fields born 8/18/26blooms from a hydrangea rescued from the full sunFrankie teaching me to restfirst light through the garden windowunderneath the canopy of a twin hickory tree
late summer tutelage
Sometimes it takes a tempest, a tree-downing, blackout-inducing, earth saturating deluge, with a distinct possibility of flooding, especially in low-lying areas, to cool the unrelenting red hot wave of summer… cool mornings like this remind us the fall is coming with its ruddy blush, smoky cinnamon-laced lessons of letting go the wilted remnants of the past season under skies so cloudless, crystalline blue peering through a lattice of transparency so stark, it challenges us to believe that even we, after a brief slumber, may emerge anew with a clean slate, even we can shed what no longer serves us and begin again.
~kat
Much love, peace, and glimmers to you…the Fall is coming. ✨🌿💚🌿✨
even the trees look weary, leaves limp, drooping after yet another raging summer storm. they seem to whip through daily downing the weak, the vulnerable, the shallow-rooted, while ripping branch clusters and barren limbs from the strong, resilient, grounded souls having weathered many a tempest…but this season, this season…the assaults are relentless, daily, fueled, as if, by malevolence…
we talk about the weather, while bracing ourselves for the next horrible headline they seem to whip through daily the woke left wondering if it’s too late
as she has for eons, earth will survive this climate shifting season, no doubt, reclaiming the paved-over loam with wild flowers trees bursting through abandoned roofs and rusting remnants of those who tried to tame her… tempests who tried to destroy her
silly, tragic humans…we never learn the trees bear witness to our folly swaying deeply with the wind swaying deeply with the wind
~kat
A glimmer…
Peaceful morning here on the hill…
Izzy settling in as if she’s always been here…💚 Nothing to worry about…nothing to see except hummingbirds backlit by the morning sun.
Much love, peace, and glimmers to sustain you…the dawn is coming.
my thoughts drift to the garden where pink and purple blooms surrender their sweetness to the monarchs, honeybees, and hummingbirds, where moonflower flutes settle slowly after a rousing night of becoming, where does with fawns in tow gather at the gate to greet me as the sun burns though a tapestry of leaves sparkling like emeralds and amber and I breathe, intentionally, deeply, taking it all in…the air that has traveled thousands of miles, visited millions of living beings until residing briefly in my expanded lungs, cooling sustaining, in…release…everything settling to a hum, and I smile… today will be a good day, a very good day
~kat
the brief spectacular lifecycle of a moonflower…today’s glimmer to ponder.
So it is easier for you to find all the parts/chapters of my ongoing fiction series, I created a new page that lists all the links. You can check it out HERE!
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