An Anonymous Bit of Poetry

Source of the quotation: 

Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

Dakota Haiku

Dakotas believe

we will be known forever

by the tracks we leave.

To read an article about the Dakota people, click here.

(Haiku and photo copyright 2020 Monty Gilmer. All rights reserved.)

A Winter Prayer

As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,

summer and winter, day and night,

shall not cease.

--Genesis 8:22 

(New Revised Standard Version)

Sometimes, Father, frigid winter blankets my spirit. Gray days become a harsh and heavy burden. And then I remember how You promised Noah winter and summer, seedtime and harvest, day and night, cold and heat as long as the earth shall live. Help me to understand; the barren and difficult times are not a curse, but part of a blessing -- Your wonderful, ever changing gift: life.

Quoted in Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

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A Bit of Poetry about February

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.
     --from "The Garden Year" (1834) by Sara Coleridge


The following is a weather-related word game for you to play:

Can you change the word RAIN into the word SNOW in as few steps as possible? Change only one letter at a time, making a new word each time, and do not change the order of the letters from one step to the next. Proper names, slang, obsolete words and vulgar words are not allowed.

Haiku

Here is a haiku of mine that I dedicate to the memory of Richard Brautigan, who was born on this day in 1935 in Tacoma, Washington.


JANUARY 30

Eating dinner this
evening I realize nights
are getting shorter.

Creation's Dawn

The following is a quotation from Dewitt Jones:

I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

Source: Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

To read an article about Dewitt Jones, click here.