Knotty Sapling ~ Word Offering

Knotty sapling spreads
Gangly limbs and lofty thoughts
Of life beyond us

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Photo: Poplar Sapling by Carolyn Krause

Hypervigilance ~ Word & Image Offering

Always listening
For the sound of life stopping-
Hypervigilance


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New Digital Abstraction & Word Offering

Image Title - Gazing Into You

Teetering

Endless balancing
Teetering glass on thin wire
Hands cupped, I wait


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Tuesday Word Offerings With a Little Music On The Side

Vibrations

A life's vibrations
Unnoticed by others
I feel you leaving


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Caught

Afraid to dance
Caught up in should and must
These bones know how




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Nicholas Barron - This Train


Photograph of The Dancing Tree from Source Of Light Portal - Photographer Unknown.

It's a Jazzy Sort of Day

Time for a little soothing jazz and a new word offering. I'm moving through my day with one eye closed while trying to chase away a migraine. I should know better by now and just hide out in a dark room and rest but I'm stubborn. I like to write through the pain and distract myself.

Moving Through

Riding the pain train
Moving through life with eyes closed
Just feeling the way

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Foolish Girl by Jazz Guitarist Matt Otten

Monday Word Offerings

Guardian mother
Between the madness and them
My body a shield


In soul cut moments
Without arms, only words left
To stem the bleeding


Burn the blue incense
Of forgetting and cleanse these
Word cuts from this soul

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- All rights reserved


Photograph - Guardian (Mother & Child Sculpture) by Ruth Burink

Blue Notes Etched In Bone - Collection of Word Offerings

In touch with those roots
Touching roots of becoming
Blue notes etched in bone


Moments of wanting
I play those blue notes to soothe
These old restless feet


Feeling the old ways
Vibrating through two old soles
Blue notes mark the way


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John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

Word Offerings To Start The Week Off Right

Chosen

Some say he chose us
From that place of becoming-
Love mends broken wings

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Something Bent

I fear the rainfall
And the mountain's slow shed tears
Waking the river

I shall wish for something bent
To cling to as we float by

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Lawnchair Lovers

Lawnchair lovers sit
Sipping sunshine like coffee,
Rooted in asphalt


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Serenity's Voice - Word Offering

Serenity's voice
Whispered for those who listen
Within and without

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All rights reserved.

Now Fits - Word Offering

Growing into it
This skin, this life, this moment
Feeling like now fits


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- All rights reserved.

Purpose - Word & Image Offering

Living through each day
As if the eye of the world
Was focused on us



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Teacher Of Me - Word & Image Offering

Wise teachers of me
Like this unwelcome houseguest
Lessons taught with pain







Teacher Of Me - Digital Abstraction by B.Y. Penman


** Migraine Art - Writing & pushing pixels through a migraine **

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Shattered - Word Offering

I've decided to start posting the haiku, senryu and other verse I write here on my professional blog. I generally only post these on my personal Northern Ruminations blog but think it important to share here as well.

Like many creative people, I struggle with finding time for my art and writing. My life is very full and can easily pull me off in other directions, leaving little or no time for quiet reflection or creative pursuits. When I'm caught up in all the hustle and bustle and rushing around something as simple as a broken glass can remind me to stop, slow down and be in the moment.


Shards of broken glass
Such perfect shattered moments
Force me to slow down

© BYP 2007