Grace

Grace Jan 7

finally the snow
comes in a steadfast,
overnight blow

and we expect,
depend and know
that lovely quietness
of winter.

everything hushed,
more still and so
we whisper

Grace Jan 2

unrequited

the river never met the shore,
though knew it in a dream.

     the ocean never knew the moon -
     love based on tenuous beams.

perhaps the lesson here: implore!
on all those things that you adore.

Grace Dec 2023

a song for you

at the end of winding roads, you still follow.
I believe in everything you are
to me, you are the reason and the means
to anything and everything I need.

Grace Dec 2023

still water haiku

still waters sicken
at the ephemeral stream,
whose current is dream

Wading in waist-high water;
and I love you so violent,
more than maybe I can do.

(fleet foxes)

Also: drink of the flowing water,
or that which alludes to your dreams (and eludes you from waiting in waist-high water)

Grace Dec 2023

Boreal Haiku

the emerald pines breathe
through the cold, forbidden prayer
of Winter's old mass.

the ancient, forest steeple

Grace Dec 2023

The Motion of Time

A breath held;
a mollusk in the sea,
its shell
so small and fragile,
overtaken
by the wild ocean in a great, swirling motion.

It will be empty now.

Dec 2023

Eshwara Prasad

A wish for the new year

Let peace unfold.