Archive for March, 2024

Easter morning

March 31, 2024

My parents made it fun,

the chocolate and eggs

in a basket beside our bed.

It was second to Christmas in our house.

We colored eggs the day before,

a family time of celebrating

colors, design, new creations,

a custom from Mesopotamia,

where Christians dyed eggs the color RED,

to symbolize the blood of Jesus.

There is also the symbol of the EGG,

Springtime, rebirth, new beginnings,

the Pagan goddess, Eostre, worshipped the Sun,

a time of warmth, the end of Winter,

a turning of the Earth.

I don’t mind connections to

ancient times,

Our humanness unites us,,

Christians, take notice, the renewal of faith,

the coming of Christ, return of the Spirit,

the Message reborn again, and again,

the Sun rises on the horizon

at a different point from yesterday,

the same Sun, the only One,

who created us all from dust.

cfblack, 3-31-2024

Sunrise on a hazy morning over a canola field, July 9, 2013. A single shot with the Canon 5D MkII and 200mm lens with 1.4x Extender.

Siblings

March 23, 2024

Sometimes I imagine

my brother’s still alive,

he did not die of liver disease,

and he was never homeless,

I imagine him healthy, I imagine him, whole,

being the big brother he wanted to be.

I also imagine

the four of us, friends,

posing for a picture together,

laughing because, we never get it right,

one of us not smiling, or turning our head,

Boy, girl, girl, boy,

16 years from start to end,

We are all getting older now,

We don’t have much time, to lose.

It’s just the 3 of us now,

In the end, we all walk the path, we choose.

cfblack, 3-24-2024