Kindled

When renewal dawns

with the early sky

in a blush of awakening,

and the birds have cleared

their voices and begun

to sing a day’s new chorus,

when I step out and stretch

into the possibilities 

awaiting in the gift of hours,

I am kindled into the fire

of living, and I wonder

how to express my

gratitude for such beauty,

so I listen,… and hear all

creation echo back to me, 

“Be kind; give freely.”

—C.L. Fisher, June 2021

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