Bare Beauty

Have you ever noticed a tree standing

naked against the sky,

how beautiful it is?

There is a poem, there is a song.

Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.

When the spring comes,

it again fills the tree

with the music of many leaves,

Which in due season fall

and are blown away.

And this is the way of life.

~ Krishnamurti ~

One Rose

~ One rose says more than the dozen ~

International Women's Day

Feeling thankful that

my daughters

live in a country

that grants and protects their right

to make the choices they wish;

in life, love, education, work

and the pursuit of happiness.

Wishing it will

one day be the same

for all women

wherever they live.

Only The Crow Knows

I'm

wondering

why that branch

the one that barely holds your weight

that leaves you tossing in the wind

until you can hold on no longer

until you fall

into the currents

of the great

white

sky.