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On the Way to Heaven, 2nd Lineage Poem: Over Ohio

May 31, 2026January 16, 2022 by bonesnsnow

my mother called on Friday
to let me know his time was near
that I needed to come now.

Categories photography, Reflections Tags death, family, fathers, life, love, photography, photos, poems, poetry, relationships, sons Leave a comment

A Joyful Noise- Root Music of the Heartland

May 31, 2026January 9, 2022 by bonesnsnow

the thin black line of the old songs

Categories photography, poetry Tags family, life, love, photography, photos, poems, poetry, relationships 6 Comments

Karma – Poems On Anger and Redemption

May 31, 2026December 11, 2021 by bonesnsnow

Actions refuse to be undone. whatever merit you’ve gathered turns to dust, blows away on the icy winds of hell. Two Poems on the karma of anger.

Categories Dharma, photography, poetry Tags buddhism, dharma, karma, life, love, meditation, photography, photos, poems, poetry, practice, relationships 1 Comment

Wordless Love – the Sweet Experience of Loving an Old Dog

May 31, 2026March 7, 2021 by bonesnsnow

loving an old dog- the exquisite fragility of this bottomless wordless love

Categories poetry Tags black dogs, death, dogs, love, mortality, old dog, old men, photography, poetry 2 Comments

it means we made promises

May 31, 2026May 31, 2020 by bonesnsnow

it means you

can still close my eyes with your lips.

Categories photography, poetry Tags anniversaries, family, home, humanity, life, love, marriage, photo, photography, photos, poems, poetry, relationships, self, women 1 Comment

message

June 1, 2026September 24, 2017 by bonesnsnow

every one of us
is so very far away

Categories photography, poetry Tags death, distance, friends, iceland, life, Loss, love, photos, poetry, rain, relationships, tears Leave a comment

Home

June 1, 2026March 9, 2017 by bonesnsnow

…we begin by thinking that love
is something that happens to us
like a bee sting…

Categories poetry Tags children, family, future, home, life, love, parents, photography, poems, poetry, relationships, wedding 2 Comments

first sight

June 1, 2026May 1, 2016 by bonesnsnow

so too must we all have been lovers…

Categories photography, poetry Tags eyes, karma, love, love at first sight, photography, poetry, reincarnation Leave a comment

wet dogs

June 1, 2026March 20, 2016 by bonesnsnow

  maybe mornings like this are the price we pay for all those years of compromise of being barely close enough to each other. We’ve survived, at least we share that, such a thin blanket to cover the cold spots on cold mornings such as this. Yet I do like grey winter days when the … Read more

Categories photography, poetry Tags cold, dogs, loneliness, Loss, love, photography, poetry, winter 2 Comments

love and death

June 1, 2026February 28, 2016 by bonesnsnow

going from love to love when I’d had

too much death, or death and death again

when love had become too much.

Categories poetry Tags death, jim harrison, love, poetry, reading, rexroth 2 Comments
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