awakening
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Enough For Today
Moments of clarity come, falling into my heart like snow, covering the dust and dirt, the anxiety and confusion, creating a new landscape of white. I am thankful. Deep down in my bones. My boot-covered feet crunch as I walk across our lawn to the mailbox, making new footprints in the white powder. I inhale Continue reading
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How the Babe Stole Grinchness
It’s been a really hard year. The kind of year that sinks it’s cold teeth into you and chills you all the way through. A year filled with moments of darkness, feeling hopeless and asking God difficult questions. Moments of waiting, endless waiting. Silence when I just want a comforting voice. At times I’ve felt tested and Continue reading
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Divine Unknowns
In the stillness of the morningI close my eyesand feel covered by a peacethat warms the sensitiveskin of my soulfragile and yearning for comforta warm cup of obsoletesin a room of shivering uncertainties I don’t have a cluebut I’ll stay inside the mysterythis land of unknownsit’s wild and open and free I’d rather be here Continue reading
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I Know You.
I know you. You think you are the only one who wakes up from a disturbing dream, and sinks back into the feeling that you don’t really want to be awake today. You feel crazy when you start crying when fresh coffee cascades all over the counter. There is some kind of leak in your Continue reading
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A Field of Empty Pages
some mornings certain words try to press into me and I can barely feel them I shake off their outlines like they never meant anything though once they were air now I choke and splutter It’s always scary and amazing how that which once felt like life seems like death and some Continue reading
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Rebirth Certificates
I felt a poem coming at 2 am accompanying a bright moon dramatically revealing herself an unearthly moment crashing into a mundane one as my dog relieved himself on the scrubby apartment grass I vigorously shook myself off like a mutt coming out of water all the while thinking This must be rebirth Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 