Friday, July 20, 2012

keep your eyes clean

"Keep your eyes clean and your ears quiet and your mind serene. Breathe God's air. Work, if you can, under His sky."
 ~Thomas Merton


whether it be by
tears or rain, we must allow
our coiled emotions

like snakes in the grass
to uncoil, and to leap out
refreshing the day

tall summer grasses
bespeak cool safety and shade
risk your life just once

for the pure freedom
known leaping and being still:
quiet, like just now

after a cool rain
where rolling green hills stand still
drinking it all in

Kate Lamberg
7.20.12


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