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like a prayer

A Space to be Filled

Make it

like a prayer

that first step

onto fresh snow.

In this small, quiet moment

you have not yet

invented yourself.

~~~

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ellensymons Poem 3 Comments Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020

Will you

Will you // I have cut my heart / into petals, strewn them / at your feet. // Walk to me. //

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ellensymons Haiku 2 Comments Dec 2, 2020 1 Minute

For O

Loneliness has gaps where joy or lovecan live for just a breath ~~~

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ellensymons Poem 2 Comments Nov 14, 2020Nov 20, 2020 1 Minute

Naked trees pull

Naked trees pull thegrey sky close---November's clothdressing their bare limbs ~~~

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ellensymons Haiku 2 Comments Nov 3, 2020Mar 31, 2021 1 Minute

Pillars of rain

While my background brain sorts out the best order for the chapters of my novel-in-progress, I am returning to haiku. What better place than the lake during a late-summer storm, to roll words around the elements.

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ellensymons Haiku Leave a comment Sep 15, 2020 1 Minute

The black animal

A black animal bounds across a snowy rural road and disappears into the trees. Identification of this large, leaping mammal is not easy!

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ellensymons Animal, Essay 5 Comments Feb 24, 2019 1 Minute

1998

The year you died the rain fell frozen in weeping sheets

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ellensymons Poem 4 Comments Dec 11, 2018 1 Minute

Day One: Journal of a Citizen-At-Large

Citizen-At-Large discusses the rules for being human.

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ellensymons Essay Leave a comment Nov 27, 2018Dec 5, 2018 1 Minute

This morning at the farms along the road

Twelve wild turkeys on their barnyard tour lumber from the woods

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ellensymons Animal, Poem Leave a comment Mar 25, 2018 1 Minute

This hush

Late-winter evening, a light snow, ...

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ellensymons Poem, Wind and water, rock and tree 2 Comments Mar 12, 2018 1 Minute

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