The First Sounds of the Morning

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

What if you dedicated

the first sounds of the morning

to gratitude?

What then?

Might the birds, having just

limbered their wings and

stretched out the toes that

gripped all through the night,

comment on

your voice at dawn?

Might the trees who have

known so little appreciation for

their shade and fruits,

cry,

like lovers cry when the

moment they never believed

would come

is suddenly a memory?

Might the sun, a

Master of Power,

finally learn what it

feels like to receive warmth?

I’ve heard the jack-in-the-pulpit

silently rendering a sermon,

and watched a muskrat put his

hands in prayer position

just before nibbling off golden

flower heads

as dawn pinked.

I’m thinking that it would be good

to realize that we are home

every morning,

and to give thanks for the

privilege.

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

From "Coming Home: Learning to Actively Love this World"
Published by Talking Waters Press

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Walking Through the Garden

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

We could make a life

out of this little black pebble,

and this bee-dancing flower,

and the wispy cloud skating

across the hot blue horizon.

I don’t know what the robin

wants me to remember of

its morning song,

But I do know this –

Everything around me is

choosing to live,

And has a way of collaborating

in the great conspiracy of

“what ifs.”

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

Published in Coming Home: Actively Learning to Love this World

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Taking a Walk

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

The turkey vulture’s rocking,

dihedral shadow crosses over me,

the road, the meadow, the mountains,

and a future

that can only be scripted

by those aspects of me

apprenticed to longing.

My feet proceed:

One, two, three four.

One, two, three, four,

Like someone has told them

that what is at the end 

of this journey is so 

worth the

effort.

Upon my approach,

a pair of brown thrashers rise

from their dust bath

cup,

emptying the Earth body

of their bodies.

I kneel and finger the

lingering warmth. 

Do they know that I look

upon their effort to rid

themselves of parasites

as a hand gesture of

the Beloved?

This is what it is all about,

isn’t it?

How we choose to See things.

© 2012-2015/Jamie K. Reaser

Published in "Sacred Reciprocity: Courting the Beloved in Everyday Life" (www.hiraethpress.com)

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