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(Written upon departure from a mountain seen from the window of the poet’s rental trailer among the redwoods in Orick, California)

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Recorded Reading (0:58): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b0jfbrxcz5ghviiemwvn9/The-Beauties-of-This-Day.wav?rlkey=w8tw6a6f9yop2e83h53p4bl4v&dl=0

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The Beauties of This Day

See the bird fly o’er the mountain
See the redwoods stretch and grow
Smell the greenery evolving
Serenity of sweetness know

Hear the calling of the creatures
With whom we all share this Earth
Gaze into their eyes and know
We are of very equal worth

Watch quiescent leaves a-nodding
In the sunlight of this day
And, when evening shadows come,
Watch their blossoms fold away

Smell a breeze as sweet as sap
Hear the silence happens when
Nature’s spaces dwell within,
O my happy soul, and then

Begin to bring self inwardly
From such beauty some apart
That coming separation will not
Break thy tender heart

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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