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Poems From The Porch Have you ever considered the worthiness of a tree and what right it has to be here? Sitting in the stillness of this...

Poems From The Porch White bird in the shallows stands poised, a graceful statuette awaiting provision. Silver-glassed water reflecting...

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Poems From The Porch Dawn is singing her morning song, lighting up the black trees and inviting the roosters to call in the day....

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Poems From The Porch A new kitten showed up yesterday. It is clear that she wants to belong. She sits on the edge of the porch, engaging...

Poems From The Porch Sitting on the porch, a gift in itself, highlights the simple joy of being-ness. A fragment of web, roguishly...

Poems From The Porch The purslane buds wait every morning to open to the warmth of the sun. The brilliant rays invoke their passionate...

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Poems From The Porch to let go of striving and the need to know to relinquish the search and the chase to rest in silence of mind and...

Poems From The Porch resistance and clinging precursors of suffering pain labeled bad avoid and avert pleasure labeled good grasp and...

Poems From The Porch So often I have failed to recognize You, Breath of my breath, for I have been enchanted by your love notes left...

Poems From The Porch Did you not know that you would have to suffer these things in order to enter into your glory? Did you imagine that...

Poems From The Porch In the morning sunlight on the elderly oak, in the crispness of the autumn cool, in the affection of a purring...

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Poems From The Porch What grand gesture would you have me do to show my love? Sweeping you off your feet for an extravagant night's...