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Love to New Mamas Everywhere!!!!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!
I found some old poems from 1996 when I was a new mama.  I think I must've been excited, yet a little bit tired with a feisty toddler running around. I remember the Wake Up Song I used to sing to Baby BeaN and myself too at that time. Also, poems that I wrote to invigorate me to start the day's adventures.  This is dedicated to you New Mamas toting around your small kiddies!  Have an adventure everyday!

WAKE UP!

Gotta get up
         and do the day's dance
Gotta get up
        and sing the day's song
I gotta just
       gotta just
                gotta just
                           gotta just
                                  go and go and go
Gotta just
           go and go

BK 1996

Good Morning Haiku

A crisp cool morning

excites me, awakens me

I know I'm alive!

BK 1996

BeaNspirations:  Be in the moment!

Haiku

Reflections

Dancing ghost of light

Sun and rippling water

Illuminating

My Secret Path

The cracked rock

caught my attention,

An entrance!

I hiked this trail 

many times

but never saw this path.

Now a new road,

available, just...

for me to discover.

BeaNspiration:  Observe carefully, so you don't lose your way!

Prickly Pear Cactus

I love Cactus!  There's something about life that survives the desert.   In my mind I see the desert as it once was.  Barren, burning and freezing, yet teeming with those survivors everywhere.  This poem came out of my wanderings through California deserts.  So diverse and yet there's something about the desert...

Prickly Pear Cactus

I am a cactus

with slanted eyes

The red fruit 

bears little resemblance

to other places

It is my heart,

born in this desert,

fortified by the hot soil

I do belong here! 

BeaNspiration: Scanning the horizon for Inspiration!!!!!!

Coming Full Circle

Look what I found!  It's a poem I wrote in high school.  It seems I thought I was too old to look at the clouds!  Well now I'm finding all kinds of magical creatures in the clouds once more.  Do you see the dragon?

My Transient Friend

Where are you now

My cloud of yesteryears?

The one who'd change

With the blink of an eye.

I used to watch you 

Do magic tricks,

You'd turn into an elephant

And then a lively clown.

I miss you so much,

I need to see 

Your funny face again.

Just one more time!

I search for you

But you're no longer here.

You seem to have disappeared

And in your place...a patch of white.

BeaNspiration:  Sometimes we need to come out from under the clouds and see the magic all around!

Nature Knows...

Mammoth Lakes, CA

Change

Nature's constant 

Persevere

Just By Being

Write

With the hand of time

Evolve

Through the ages

Capture

Moments

BeaNspiration:  I hear my lessons when I'm outside!