Posts by Simon
The day you stop
The day you know so muchyou stop being curiousis the day you know nothing.
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Thread
That spider’s threadstrung across the trail.How she must have leaptto spin it and how I almoststrode and broke it. But I didn’tbecause I rememberedit was hers, it was ours.
Read MoreDriftwood
I met a piece of driftwood,smooth and light. It told metumbling on the wavesdoes that to you,if you let it.
Read MoreSing
It is enough to restand let the world sing.
Read MoreEvery
Every fall the trees lay their blanket of love .Every spring the bulbs raise their blades of hope.This is how the world works, despite it all.
Read MoreStumbling, allowing
Stumbling through todaywaiting to allow the worldto knock me senseless with awe.
Read MoreWinter reminder
Be so stillyou hearthe beech leavestell storiesof their lifeclinging in death.
Read MoreThistle seed
What should I do,how shall I plan,what will I solvein my made-up life? —while you followa thistle seedon a breeze,in the sun.
Read MoreNovember
It’s November and natureis full of glad death, defiantlybrown and knowing what life is.
Read MoreFreed
Could we live like this, our livesbound in duty and honor,freed by the chains of love?
Read MoreSome small things
Sometimessome small thingsare biggerthan I can know.
Read MoreSuddenly there are swans
Suddenlythere are swansby the roadsideeverywhere. Like operagoersin McDonaldsat the rest stopeating sundaes.
Read MoreRunaway trains
There are runaway trainsand I keep getting on them,leaving you at the station
Read MoreLeave your self
Leave your self on a spider webin the evening sun, by the leaftwisting in the breeze, in the scent of hay.
Read MoreIn every leaf
Crazed in our made-up world,blind to the love in every leaf.
Read MoreUncovering, remembering
One day I stop and find my self in stillness—a small boy’s voice is finally heard.
Read MoreFuel
I know the leaves let go gladlybecause they trust their fallis the fuel of themselves anew.
Read MoreEvery dark autumn
When I die, bury mein a field and plantwhite and blue asterson top of me so everydark autumn I’ll remind youI’m still gladly living.
Read MoreIf you see a raindrop
If you see a raindrop on a fallen leafand stop for a secondit means you’ve discoveredwhere words endand the world begins.
Read MoreWarm
Often it’s enoughfor your warm bodyto warm mywarm bodyand nothing else.
Read MoreLittle pink aster
YesterdayI saw a little pink asterand stopped the rainfor a moment.
Read MoreRed, brown
May we remember the wonderof the red berry on the brown branch.
Read MoreIt’s raining seeds
It’s raining seedsfrom blue skies to soft ground.The world goes on.
Read MoreThe buzz
So wiseis the beeon the goldenrodjust beeing.
Read MoreLost and found
One minute not so long agoI heard a bird sing. I lost myself and foundsomething bigger.
Read MoreTechnique
The secretis to let the stillnessenrapture youwithout breaking it.
Read MoreEvery so often, I remember
Every so often, I rememberI love you and, for a while,I remember nothing else.
Read MoreEvery Day
Every daythe same old,same oldmagic. There’s a lot of routine to having a puppy. Rufus thrives on it. If I’m not careful, each day is Groundhog Day. But Rufus helps me remember there’s wonder everywhere. It might be the same routine, but Rufus finds joy in every patch of light, each waving leaf. It’s a…
Read MoreGoldenrod
As the days cool,the world is thickwith goldenrod whichproves, I think, natureis forever optimistic.
Read MoreWhat shall I?
What shall I do…what shall I betoday?he saidcorrectly.
Read MoreThe leaf
Onlywhen we allow ourselvesto be intoxicatedby a leaf in the sundo we live.
Read MoreFind me stillness
Give me fireworks, give mefeasts, give me thrills. But findme stillness and I have the world.
Read MoreOn this chair
Give me five minutesand I’ll find eternityon this chair, in this sunshine.
Read MoreGive me a minute
Give me a minuteand I’ll sink intomy place in the world.
Read MoreForgetting and remembering
Forgetting, I cryRemembering, I laugh.
Read MoreOne bird, two birds
One bird.Two birds.A world.
Read MorePatch of light
Dwellin the patch of lightfor it reminds uslove is.
Read MoreThe trouble with wanting more
The trouble withwanting more,said Bird,is it leaves youwanting more.
Read MoreOur lives
Forever distractedfrom the terrorof browning petals.
Read MoreStill, always, home
I step outside and hearthe bee buzz and the bird singas the world greets me again—I’m still here, always here, always home.
Read MoreEnough is more enough
If we can learn to wantless of more andmore of less;if we can stay stillat the precipice of desireand permit the deliciousness of more—while knowingenoughis moreenough.
Read MoreAll that’s left to do
All of usare thrown into this lifewe didn’t ask forbut want to keep. So we learn(finally and perhaps)that all that’s left to dois love.
Read MoreDandelion clock
What ifeverythingimportantis foundin thedandelionclockthe momentbeforethe windblows?
Read MoreLove what is
Let me love what is—and one day grow as wiseas the daisy who lovesthe rain, loves the sun,and loves the windthat bends her.
Read MoreThe slide
When I was five, I’d do to the parkand play on the steep, metal slide.I learned then something I forget today—you only get where you want to gowhen you dare to let go of the sides.
Read MoreDeep time
Sometimes I fret about yesterdayor worry about tomorrow.Then I noticethe granite cliffbehind my house.
Read MoreAbundance
Never feel sadabout a wilting flower.Every petalcontains the ideaof another bloom.
Read MoreThe starflower
The starflower blooms in the forest.You might walk on by—but if you do,you’ll never know love is everywhere,even in the darkest of places.
Read MoreCoreopsis
When the coreopsis is thirsty it wilts.When the rain comes, it thrives.This is the most sane thing I’ve seen all week.
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