Red Neon Light Flows
Like Memory Down Wet Streets
While Downtown Slumbers
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We’re imagining We’ve mastered time and yet death Always comes calling Go ask the glaciers About lifespan, except we Have no shared language Perhaps the Mayfly? They have no time to form words In their five minutes. Maybe time and words Slide each other by, each the Others Mystery And lifespans are just The dreams of all things with a Beginning and end
Bernie Franke 1923-2023
I Could Wish for a Heart of Stone, a Beauty From The Earth’s Rocky Bones Revealing to Him Mysterious Natural Grace, The Passage of Time Yes, a Heart of Stone As he Saw Stone Would be a Blessing and a GiftDusky Purple Rock
River Smoothed Layers A Clock
Marking Glacial Time
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Captured in His Gaze
Bluebird Echoes the Colors
Of Sky and Sunrise
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As Some Days Wind Down All That’s Left is Looking For God in the Shadows
Episode M2.1 – My Chosen Kindred
Haiku Mediations on My Chosen Kindred It’s No Special Day But I Think of You and Am Grateful and AmazedZion National Park
Red Rock Canyons Fill With Light and Shadows Rise to Move Across the Rocks As The Day Passes Canyon Walls Stand, Canvas for Always Shifting Light And Something Stirs in The Shadows or the Light on The Rocks or In MeBeneath the Blue Sky
Cattails in Winter Coats Stand
Tall Above The Marsh
Even as Winter
Blurs My Summer Memories
The Sun Still Shines
For Becky and Olivia
Making the Future
Happen. A New Mother and
A New Life. God’s GraceMolten Sunlight Pours
Down Canyon Walls and Flows Out
Across Dry Stream BedsMolten Sunlight Caught
In Utah Alabaster
And Prairie FlowerMolten Sunlight Cooled
By Sapphire Skies, By Time, and
Laid in Sheared Rock Walls
Layer on Layer
Laid Down Over Time Beyond
Our Clocks and MeasuresWorn Away By Wind
And Water, Canyons Painted
Orange and Grey and GreenSteeped in Light and Dark
Time and Distance Are Dissolved
To an Ancient Calm
We Would All Be Dead
If God Was Not Patient, So
Everything EvolvesThe Passing Eons
And Nature’s Endless Rhythm
Of Call and ResponseOceans Came and Went
Mountains Rose and are Eroding
Rivers and Wind CarveSculpting in Red Rock
Adding and Removing Over
The Passing Eons
Sacred Light Rises
From the Floral Alter of
The Bee’s Cathedral
Birthplace of Glaciers
Grown Here, Before Their Labors
For Grace and Beauty
The Great Plains Hold On
To the Sacred, Even as
Our Memories Blur
Everlasting, But
Time will Take Our Meaning and
Make It Something Else
The Mountain’s Secrets
Only Partly Revealed By
Time, Love and Patience
Who Left This One Rose
And Why, It’s a Story Few
Can Tell but All Know
Episode R1.2 – Birds
Reflections on the Bird Haiku Episode M1.2 – Birds
A Haiku Meditation on Birds This Flowing Water
And Standing Rock, Unchanging
Yet Never the Same
Episode R1.1 – Winter Into Spring
Reflections on the Change of Seasons from Winter to Spring Episode M1.1 – Winter Into Spring
A Haiku Meditation on the Change of Seasons from Winter to Spring Even Though She’s Gone
She Still Kindles Light and Warmth
Like a Rising Sun
Carpe Diem (For Doris)
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