Do Trees Pray?

Do Trees Pray?

I passed you every day

And saw how 

Mightily

You had been struck down!

Did lightning

Visit you?

Your riven trunk

Gaping to the sky.

I noticed your remaining

  shape

Like praying hands

beseeching heaven.

The following Spring

New shoots appeared

And green leaves.

You offered this 

New life to 

the skies.

An answered prayer.

Shadow Poem

Shadow Poem

Some shadows

Lurk in corners

Where the light

 Can't reach.

Others race ahead

of you

Darkening your path,

When the sun is low

And you have turned

Your back.

But at noon

When the high sun

Becomes

A golden ball,

You can look

But there seems 

to be

No shadow there at all.

Facing boldly

Into the sun,

The shadows

Behind you run

And you are

Walking in the 

Light of a glorious,

 radiant sun.

When shadows fall

Across your path

And you know 

For sure 

They'll come,

Remember

There is no

Shadow cast

Without the 

Light of the Sun.

Look for the Light!