Good Morning Venus
Venus soaks up the new day
Reflecting in the Bic blue sky
Even the trees reach to hug
Her translucent beauty
Good Morning Venus, my love
~ PLR
Poem – Questions
From the works of William Ricci, a loving and gentle poem titled~
2014
Salute to a New Year!
Ice Dragon
The rock of the Berry Falls
Has an Ice Dragon hiding in plain site
He rests between the cracks
In between the light
Whisper shadow footfalls
Tails rush to burn
Wind shift through
Other sides emerge
Absence
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~W.S. Merwin
Winding Down
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ”
― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above
Black and White
“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”
― Walter De Mulder
Creeping
Climbing
Finding its way into the greenness
Of spring
Oh how I long for the creeping of spring
Gentle Wishes
As a child ~ could you pass by
Without noticing the perfect symmetry
Of the soft seeds
Waiting to be wished onto the breeze
Pilings
Two Harbors, MN | Lake Superior 2013
The ice forms around the pilings
Like plaque around an aging tooth
Lakeside Chips
Lake Superior Lutsen,MN 2013 | Drom Hytte
Frozen splinters creaked and groaned
While light is pushed across the Big Lake
Accumulated breaths of ice lined the shore
Negative 11
Lake Superior Lutsen,MN 2013 | Drom Hytte
Arctic stillness
Breath of the Big Lake
Hangs silently
The Only Thing Negative is the Temperature
Vestige of the Day
Lake Superior Lutsen,MN 2013 | Drom Hytte
Wake from slumber
Shadows cast aside
Climb down to greet the day
Gelid Dawn
Lake Superior Lutsen,MN 2013 | Drom Hytte
She no longer sleeps
With an exhale
Across the sheet of lake
Prie-dieu
Silver Lake Park, 3-Rivers | St. Anthony, MN | 2012
Weighted down
Drifted over
Cloaked memories
Ruminations signaled
Bridge
Superior Trail | Schroeder, MN | 2012
Bridging another equinox
Time has fallen in heaps of color
Rising stark on the other side
Above the scattered floor
Presence Rising
Lake Superior | Lutsen, MN | 2012
“Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth… It is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.”
~ Sigurd Olson
Barnacles
Red Raven Retreat | Willow River, MN 2012
Fungus barnacles sprout new life for the fallen limb
As with all life there comes an end
Nature reminds us of the circle
Grace
Red Raven Retreat | Willow River, Mn 2012
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
~ John Donne
Itsy Bitsy
“Spiders and flies–we’re mostly one t’other– / We come, we go; and when we’re done, we’re done.”
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Welcome fall 2o12
“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
~ Henry Davis Thoreau
Our son is currently deployed. He is in our thoughts constantly, as well as the rest of our troops and the families they have at home. We wish them all safe endeavors as they go about protecting us and those other nations and cultures in need from unseen harm.
follow the Twisted Root 