I have the day.......

I have the day to work on my poetry collection, but love the feeling of writing and completing a fresh new poem. A new poem, likened to how the new snow is released from the heavens...

snow cascades and spirals through the sky...
lightly touches the ground, this flat land, i call home.
breathing in the the kinesthetic
vibe of effortlessness,
as I clear my cerebral slate

allowing the words of angels, trees, ceramic teapots,
edges of treeless branches stroking the grey white sky...
presently filling with the softest wisps of snow-

falling mostly down,
with some flakes pushed
in gusts on the horizontal plane

snow flakes gather at the base of trees,
form lines on blacktop parking lot,
coat cars, fences, bushes-
with a palpable cold magic.

in genuine effortlessness,
snow as object, and as verb,
in the act of snowing... brings
uncompromised joy--

lighting children's faces
and illuminating eyes of artists-
who, without pressure,
asks kindly and most humbly-

for pure inspiration begins within,
and is only enhanced by all this external beauty
within this unique day...

with its original splashes of color,
fine nuanced feelings..

( in our experience )

must correspond to the infinite
combinations of listening/not listening,
seeing/not seeing.....as we travel...

moving closer to the edges of our leafed existence, while
moving closer to touching the depths of our hearts---
connecting to the larger unified visual frame.

we, and all we meet
become the changing art
in our genuine embracing
of this god given day

Amen.

words and photo by kate lamberg
(c) January 2nd, 2014