daybreak

Photo: Brian Federle, Palm Springs Dawn, December 2016

daybreak, still limbs lace
to gray sky, wait for the next
storm to shake open

morning, still sleeping
shuttered windows conceal the
cold face of daybreak.

(2012, 2017)

Morning

light, liquid, over-
flowing bright leaf, washing clean
night’s graven, dull stain.

Tree and Cloud

Photo: Tree and Cloud by David Saltaire
*
Upward strains brittle
limbs, arid tree lifts grey age
drifts down love’s pure grace.

 (9 Aug 2012)

Breaking Silence

It is not speaking that breaks our silence,
but the anxiety to be heard. Thomas Merton

In chilled twilight swells
the chorus overwhelming
echoing passion,

half of water, half
of leafy bank, the night they
fill with lusty will,

persistent, straining
these marshland poets converge,
anxious to be heard.

March Rain

March rain, thick mists drip
from grey branches, glowing grass,
rising like fire.

Buds bursting in slow
motion, unclenched, learn to trust
that green spring will stay.

wild mustard

Mustard and Mt. St. Helena • acrylics on panel • 8″x10″ © 2013 Karen Lynn Ingalls.Used with permission of artist. www.KarenLynnIngalls.com

spring hills, green peaks laced
with stroke of gold – waving flame;
the wild mustard flows

 

spring storm

Duck Creek Lightning Night, 2012, oil on linen
V…Vaughn (used by permission)

night drops suddenly

birds, nervous, slip into eves,

silenced; a stone drops.

peace be on this stream.

slidingsong of rainsoaked creek,

rising moon, refreshed.

what the rain has done

http://www.ahhh-thelight.com
Enya’s “Paint the Sky With Stars”

vision scrubbed free; stars
pierce the silken night. Oh! see
what the rain has done!

cold mountain

close to the edge, cold
mountain shreds fears, streams dying
earth with living tears

morning storm

http://www.ibiblio.org/kelly/vnc/at/pics/snowcap.jpg

bright smudge in slate clouds
violence on the mountain
morning of the storm.