Abundance
by Carolyn Chilton Casas
Morning light bathes
my face and filigrees
the edges of leaves like halos.
The soul-stirring cry
of a red-tailed hawk rings
out as she flies searching
across the sky.
If I close my eyes,
I hear a gopher chomping
roots; lizards scurrying
from bush to bush;
a sparrow scratching
the dirt for grubs.
Bees buzz behind my chair
as they dust pollen
from succulent blossoms.
Hummingbirds whiz by
my shoulder at full throttle.
A distant wild turkey
calls forlornly for his mate,
and other bird species
converse in languages
I do not yet comprehend.
Even the far-off hum
of a car down on the road
and faint voices
from the other side of the valley
play across my awareness—
sights and sounds
of a perfectly abundant life.
Carolyn Chilton Casas lives on the central coast of California, the perfect landscape for a love of nature, hiking, and playing beach volleyball. She is a Reiki master and teacher, whose favorite theme for writing is about ways to heal. Her stories and poems have appeared in Braided Way, Energy, A Network for Grateful Living, Reiki News Magazine, Touch,and in other publications. You can read more of Carolyn’s work on Instagram at mindfulpoet_ or in her first collection of poems titled Our Shared Breath.
nice poem
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