Earth Day

It’s simple. We are nature. To love her is to love ourselves. The more we feel this, the easier it becomes to fight for her. Happy Earth Day.

A poem from EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with the artist, Deidre Scherer.

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To The Flower Garden

To the Flower Garden, will be published in a thousand flowers® forthcoming book, When the Flowers Sing: A Flower Poetry Anthology. Flowers are given for every occasion of our lives. The book deepens your connection to flowers’ primal magic.

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I WANT TO HOLD IT IN MY HAND

Revitalizing our passion and our life.

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SLEEP

I have a complicated relationship with sleep. I ‘suspect others do too.

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Talking to Moon

Unexpected connection to Moon

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Washing Hands

I am a bit OCD about hand washing. Then Covid hit. Ouch. Worse. I’suspect I am not alone. This poem is a nudge nudge wink wink to me  and all those as we slowly undo the fear and change the pattern to washing when appropriate.

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MY FARMERS' MARKET: 2009

Summertime 2009. This poem was written in a different time. My heart hurts at the enormity of ongoing greed, duplicity, violence, and hate, which has been revealed and multiplied since then. Take some sustenance from simple pleasures and connections recounted in this poem. They still exist in our country. They will help our hearts. They will help us stay juicy for the long task of freeing our nation and our people from deliberate enslavement.

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PLEASURES OF THE FLESH

Change and joys of aging.

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CODA: OUR BREATH

It’s simple. We are nature. To love her is to love ourselves. The more we feel this, the easier it becomes to fight for her.

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HOPE for Emily Dickinson

May we face our fears & may they become lighter. Feeling them in the body can help.

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Sacred Walk #2

Letting in contact/connections in nature can mitigate loneliness.

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RECOGNITIONS

How contact with a little being—a hummingbird connects you to the world. In times of grief and rage connections like this can bring solace and space for action.

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For mothers and all those who mother in any capacity.

With much love, Christina

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The title says it. The way a particular flower’s thrust from the earth awakens me, connects me to myself, to it, and to spring.

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AN IRIS

A surprise.

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THE RIDER

An unexpected oneness with trees.

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A WOMANS JOY

Supporting a juicy spring.

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MORNING

A groggy mind can take you into different experiences.

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A poem from EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with artist Deidre Scherer.

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