Showing posts with label Kim Mosley Winter Harmony on Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kim Mosley Winter Harmony on Earth. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Seeing Through



As if I had surgery for nearsidedness,
now that the leaves have fallen,
I see the horizon line,
so carefully hidden a week ago by the leaf-laden trees.

I should know more now,
being able to see through my former reality.
I can tell where
the earth ends and the sky begins,
and if I was a little wiser I could create
joy and harmony on Earth, or even with the neighbors
who complain about where the leaves have fallen.

It is much colder today,
suggesting that winter is on its way.
What was opaque is now transparent.
What was middle aged is now becoming old.

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