Category Archives: Seasonal poetry

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The Turning Leaf

May your autumn find gently,  

as the trees too loosen their hold  

on all they once grew to believe was theirs.

May we also learn from the leaves 🍁 

how color brightens near the letting go,  

how the hidden fire of life  

is brightest  

just before it returns to the ground .

Beneath the autumns call,

the dark receives it all;

stem, vein, rain-softened gold,  

the red mushrooms hood of warning,  🍄

the feast-bearing,  

the secret labour of fungi  

making kin of decay and birth.

Nothing is wasted here.  

The forest remembers  

what the fearful heart forgets:  

that endings are not ultimate,

but spaces where the unseen  

begins again its patient work.

So trust the humus of your days,  

the crisis that became depth,  

the sorrow that deepened into wisdom,  

the love that becomes nourishment  

long after its first form is gone.

Now as your own season turns,  

You may you fall without fear  

into the great belonging,  

where life takes back the body it gave

and blesses it again into beginning.

For we too become colour for a while,  

a brief bright changing  

in the season of time,  

and then returned  

to the root, the rain, the worm,  

the hidden womb of life  

that is bearing 

another spring.

August 26

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A Summers Day

by Liam

Summer lifts the world

single handed into light.

The sea waiting 

since the dawn of creation, breathes softly against the shoreline of time.

Barefoot,

I step onto firm sand.

With each footprint,

the beach releases

a memory of its silence,

and like a place within me,

my soul remembers

all it once knew.

The waves don’t welcome me as a stranger,

but as one returning

to a home

I had forgotten was my self.

A cool breath

draws the burden

of my thoughts

Until like gulls they screech 

above the wind

rising,

circling,

then vanishing

beyond the edge of the world.

Here

Beneath the trembling waters light,

a shoal of fish

passes through the deep

the sea thinks

in shoals of silver flashes,

each movement

brief,

each one complete.

No moment like another.

Time forgets

The ancient habit

of measuring itself.

It loosens,

becoming light,

becoming water,

becoming a wide and open stillness

Perhaps happiness

is what we grasp,

but is that what changes us?

We imagine

we are only spending

a summer’s day

beside the sea.

And when evening,

with gentle ripples,

gathers the last gold slivers

from the waves,

something remains

wordless,

spacious,

and somehow

a little nearer

to the Infinite.

To the warmth of this eternal summers day. 

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The Light of Naserith

by Liam

Many the stars at night have been,

Yet on this night so bright was seen

A star, a stable, a manger small,

Which shone from Him down to us all.

The shepherds, kings, and those who hear—

A lamb was born from God on high.

A babe, in a manger, softly cried,

While Mary and Joseph, in awe, did sing

Songs of praise with angels’ wings

Upon heaven’s gate.

Rejoice with spheres of cosmic love—

A choir of angels from heaven above:

“He is born to all this day,

He will show mankind the way—

Of peace, of love, of humble faith.”

Let us open the gate of who we are,

Receive the gift from God’s Son afar.

Share this moment forevermore—

Let in the light; open your door.

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The Light of Christmas đŸŽ„

The Light of Christmas

by Liam

Many, the stars at night have been

Yet on this night, so bright was seen

A star ⭐️, a stable, manger small

Which shone from him, down to us all

The Shepard’s, Kings and those too who hear

A lamb was born from God on high

A babe in a manger softly cried

While Mary, Joseph in awe did sing, songs of praise

With angels wings upon heavens gate

Rejoice with spheres of cosmic love

A choir of angels from heaven above

“He, is born to all this day,

He, will show mankind the way

Of peace, of love, of humble faith.”

Let’s open the gate of who we are

Receive the gift from Gods son afar

Shared this moment for ever more

Let in the light, open your door .

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Poetry: The Light of Christmas

Poetry: The Light of Christmas

by Liam

Many, the stars at night have been

Yet on this night, so bright was seen

A star ⭐️, a stable, manger small

Which shone from him, down to us all

The Shepard’s, Kings and those too who hear

A lamb was born from God on high

A babe in a manger softly cried

While Mary, Joseph in awe did sing, songs of praise

With angels wings upon heavens gate

Rejoice with spheres of cosmic love

A choir of angels from heaven above

“He, is born to all this day,

He, will show mankind the way

Of peace, of love, of humble faith.”

Let’s open the gate of who we are

Receive the gift from Gods son afar

Shared this moment for ever more

Let in the light, open hearts door .