Connie D at Mohonk Mountain House 2013

Awesome place, we had fun! Shopped at three shops and had complimentary Tea and cookies, yummy!

Embracing My Winter: inspired by, Winter Practice by Jean Gallagher from her book, START

Embracing the Dark

I extend my arms from horizontal

embrace the dark spaces

trace its kiss

It stretches me

pulls me deeper

into its hollow

beyond the now

beyond this solitude.

The Quest

I ask

You answer

The mysteries hover

We slip in and out

of the dark.

Fact checking

googling, getting scroogled

remembering

forgetting

posing as scientists

mining beliefs

digging up dead cultures

amidst the ruins

amidst our ruining temples

playing our parts

playing

with the gods.

© Cornelia DeDona 12-13-13

December Muse

It is December

And the days flicker by

in reel time

As the pencil thin

browns

weathered grays

traced in white

maternal pause

shielding the palette of young

green, purple, red, orange, and yellow,  

snuggled under leafy blankets

dreaming of Hawaii

and a resurgence

beyond the icy blast.

©12-4-13 Cornelia DeDona

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