Ancient Shepherds
My mountain neighbors loom steeply up from our valley, rugged and still. They do not snore as they sleep there, do not stir or startle. Earthquakes don’t wake them,their molten cores reach deep into earth’s …
Tag: Susanne Donoghue
Loud Silence
Trills and tremolos, chirps and warbles echo in the trees I see with closed eyes. Wind flirts with my ears and then whooshes over the treetops and down the slopes, joining the river’s rush. When …
It’s Hard to Explain
Ants will visit every feast.If the potato salad has mustard and sweet pickles,I can put up with crawlers.And if I can have melody and rhythm,I’ll deal with some noise.Clouds’ soft, intertwining folds are such,rain is …
Darkness
I love the light, but also when it goes to hide. The day’s too short for me to finish every chore, but darkness shields my faults from hostile eyes. Darkness shields me, too, those times …
No Harm Done or No Harm Seen
I mean no harm, truly. But trees are cut down, shredded, so I may buy toilet paper. When I discard the plastic wrapper, it may end leaching poisons into the earth or part of the …
Floating Among the Stars
Well-loved night cradles each sun, rocks all beings in universal sleep. The all-pervading “I” sings of puissance and care, soft electricity innervating cells and stars, speaking to Itself through tree and stone. Each dawn we …
Let It Begin
Let the children awake to the touch of sun and shadow. Let them sense the nearness of honest-to-goodness healing, and reach out for the Being who loved them into birth. Let the grownups awake from …
Legacy for a Daughter and Hers
I cannot leave you a house–it wouldn’t be your home. But I can bequeath you apples crisp against bright sky, cinnamon, lavish and antique, beckoning with scent to far-off isles. I cannot leave you diamonds–my …