On Healing

January 10, 2022by Kitty

There are moments
for uprooting your aching
spirit and cradling it tenderly,
awaiting the uncoiling infant
greenness coming to probe
your waiting heart with new life.
Everything must bear its scars,
but choose to yield their grace.

Watch how the winter world goes
about its business. Be witness
to the frenzy of the feeding birds,
freezing wings beating through
the bluest winter sky. They suffer,
yet they soar. Note how the garden’s
ghosts bend beneath ice and snow,
harboring spring, how active death
can be, how deliberate its service to
life. And in the moonlight’s bright beams,
hear the coyotes make symphony of their
mystery and hunger. Be comforted, then,
in your healing. All the world transforms
through pain, labouring what answers
must be born, what sacrifices life requires
to create its owned and precious beauty.

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And another friend’s wonderful anthology, Navigating the Pandemic, since we still are. www.dandelionbook.com

Be safe and well, my dear friends.

9 thoughts on “On Healing”

snowbird says:

January 10, 2022 at 3:23 PM

Oh, how beautiful. I just loved this, and the photos! Love and hugs to you all.xxxx

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Kitty says:

January 10, 2022 at 4:13 PM

I so appreciate your kindness, dear one; thank you. I had a physical setback this weekend and have been trying to write my way back to balance and hope. ♥️

May you and your beloveds be well and safe!

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Kevin Mooney says:

January 11, 2022 at 8:27 AM

Love the photos!!

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Kitty says:

January 11, 2022 at 10:11 AM

Thank you, Kevin; I appreciate your kindness.
Be safe and well! XO

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composerinthegarden says:

January 11, 2022 at 10:54 AM

Magical, Kitty. You have the gift of combining sorrow and hope, pain and delight into a transcendent poem. Your words make me sigh deeply and then release my burdens – thank you.

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1. Kitty says:
  
  January 11, 2022 at 5:25 PM
  
  Thank you, Lynn; I so appreciate your kindness. And that anything I’ve written can help ease burdens…well, that gives me deep peace. Be safe and well
  
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still a dreamer says:

January 11, 2022 at 5:01 PM

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still a dreamer says:

January 11, 2022 at 5:04 PM

Such hopeful and comforting words. Trying to absorb them as my furnace runs practically non-stop in 9 degree weather. But it’s true. Even a run for the mail allows for crow calls, and sparrows searching the ground for food, the occasional bundled walker. Life isn’t about all the same temperature and sunny days. What would be the fun in that, after all?
Stay safe and warm, my friend, and keep taking those fabulous photos!

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1. Kitty says:
  
  January 11, 2022 at 5:32 PM
  
  Oh, my, yes, this cold snap has been putting roses in our cheeks alright! Thank you, Jeanne. I always enjoy the life in your comments. You stay safe and warm, too!
  
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