Florida Pilgrimage
good morning… I have taken on an online ‘retreat’ , Soul of The Pilgrim, for 40 days. It invites the ‘pilgrim’ to consider a more contemplative, creative journey for these 40days and nights. Going within my own soul to deepen my relationship with Spirit, Source, God, Oneness…
I begin by coming to Florida to visit my ill brother.. and so my Pilgrimage begins here.
Pictures of a dream made real
on land of rolling mountains
of dense forest and summer green
The gift of dogwood bloom
of azalea and rhododendron
In splashes of wild pink abundance.
Fresh fills the nose feeds the lung love
Tuck into the middle of nowhere
Were the everywhere is picture perfect
from the log cabin’s point of view
Their point of view is this is heaven
These mountains in rural Tennessee
This cabin, this vista of life in retirement
Where breath is pure and nature gives her all
Nestled away from the rigor of busy
and the have-to get-somewhere-fast
is as remote as their cabin in these woods
tucked away from what was once every day.
Only now, only now…
Cancer feeds and snuffs the dream
Making hungry feed of his landscape
Taking down his forest and verdancy
Killing the buds of his flowers before bloom
Remote is his cabin of disintegrating wood
As extinction inhales his fresh breath
devours him alive with careless intent
Suffers his desire to death’s anxious door
Gives the dream made manifest
one summer
to hold in pictures
of what use to be
Jeanne Adwani ~ geezer girl 