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View fullsize I'm really curious, what is your favorite aroma of spring? Mine has always been the apple blossoms. I remember the aroma as I walked out into the fields near where I grew up. "Apple blossoms Fall to the ground Still the aroma lingers As i
View fullsize "I’m out on the furthest edge of the peninsula, a cool day, but a biting sun. Water gently rises and falls with the breath. The railroad rumbles by. My blue pen races from one side of the page to the other. Green weeds grow all around. The
View fullsize Even after a number of years, I am stunned by this image. How is it that the green of the stalks rising above the water appears in front of the alternating waves of grey? I love how it matches with this poem describing a mysterious wave of my own dee
View fullsize "Surrounded by flowers Sitting on my stoop Carried away by the songs of birds What need have I of travel?" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality #poetry #poem #poetrycommuity #nature
View fullsize "Sad, sorrowful at being unsettled I just want to scream through the bushes! How can this go on? This unconnectedness, this casual slaughter of springtime, everything changing so rapidly, and none of us not even I, here, really here, to experien
View fullsize I'm curious if you meditate as well, with the breath. "This is one of those shaky days, like waters shifting beneath me and I can’t swim. I sit quietly with the breath, till I find peace." https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulnes
View fullsize "I live on the edge of the world On a spit of land, a peninsula Practically falling into the water" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality #poetry #poem #poetrycommuity #nature
View fullsize "The swans are back! Floating right in front of my window, the first one! White everywhere except the black and gold of its trumpeting mouth The swans are back!" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality #poetr
View fullsize "Leaves and water move In slow motion in soft light Within all is still" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality #poetry #poem #poetrycommuity #nature
View fullsize "Lying at ease Forgetting myself in the ripples of the pond My cheeks gently bake in the sun While all around my calves in the shadows cool breezes play" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality #poetry #poem
View fullsize Do you enjoy spring as much as I do? "Spring and fall, each vibrant with change In the midst of life and death So alive, so alive! So quiet, so peaceful Yet so alive!" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality
View fullsize "Tossing and turning tonight On the one side Every joint fractured with anxiety Fearful of this war-like world And on the other I am as peaceful and as deep as a lake Reflecting constantly back onto its quiet surface" https://www.georgekin
View fullsize Composed a few years ago, I lost my 350 favorite books in this flood, including a book I was composing on William Blake. "I walk through a week of water toward my cabin to compose this song watching pools form as raindrops cascade upon the
View fullsize Seeing the water foul hang out together today makes me wonder how come we can’t do the same thing with our fellow human beings? "The pond is filled with wild swans today Geese and ducks swim with them A wild wind makes waves upon the wa
View fullsize The swans just came out today! I’m wondering if they will have babies "Like buds exploding Waterlilies arising Swans of spring blossom Like flowers on Spectacle Pond" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spir
View fullsize "The ice today separated from its central spot on the pond Floated freely, blown by wind And then melted away" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality #poetry #poem #poetrycommuity #nature
View fullsize People used to ask me what I wanted to do with my life. More than anything I almost always replied I want to live in the weather. Still do. Isn’t it wonderful? "I live in the weather! The gracious wind awkwardly brushes my shoulder W
View fullsize "A sound far behind me As if the wind releases a thousand fans. Twigs and stems shiver in the early morning light The tops of my ears are seared with frost And with light!" https://www.georgekinder.com/ #mindfulness #meditation #spir