Bringing Good Cheer

May all the merry angels bring love, light and laughter to our weary world. May each of us bring healing, positivity, and purpose to the new year. May 2019 be filled with hopes and successful efforts to unify our world, not in fear but in love. May we all strive to see the good in everyone and everything. And, may we focus on this good and allow it to expand and sustain our human race and our beautiful planet. May all beings know love and peace.

Longest Night

Winter Solstice

"In the depth of winter
 I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus

Cloud Menagerie

Sunbathing Birds

Hummingbird Reflections

Osprey over Woods Canyon Lake

As Clouds Go By

Cloud Menagerie

by Kathy Mackey

Within the cage of silent sky

winds rattle the chem trail bars.

Look inside at white puffs of antelope

tumbling into a colossal tiger’s jaw.

See filmy wisps of fleeing zebras

slip through giant rabbit ears.

A lion’s mane expands and floats

as sleet-grey nimbus clouds appear.

Towering bears and prancing horses

 whirl and plunge chasing sunbeams

into the black and purple storm front,

home of the thunder dragon’s menagerie.

Rain falls. Lightning sizzles the cloud fort walls.

Antelope, tiger, zebra, rabbit, lion, bear and horse

dissolve into the rising air. No impressions anywhere

until the sky clears, winds blow, and clouds pile up once more.