Canaigre a leafy buckwheat
right here in the high desert!
Drive an hour, hike an hour,
find some shade, sit in dirt.
Identify plants, photograph rocks.
Raven and scrub jay.
Coleogyne and cercocarpus,
single-leaf ash and squawbush.
What else have I seen?
Juniper, the source of all penumbra.
The rift that took the river eons to carve,
caves for cougar and Anasazi.
The sand and soil are Mars red,
iron oxides deposited by ocean
200 to 20 million years ago.
That’s nuthin compared to the wind in my head!
Meanwhile it’s Spring back east,
geopolitical and existential dramas
perdure without surcease,
our quince has blossomed and slumbered.
Joint-fir, ephedra, arid
sagebrush and rabbitbrush.
But juniper berries stay
nuclear blue-green!
Lay ways brace the wind.
Under Juniper fears we raced toward Juniper Days mixed with oceans of Light.
Kingly music brought us to dancing.
Honey smiles wavy back those Mustard seeds deep inside of me.
Screaming for love hoping for change I lean into Juniper Rage.
Silence grows as I whisper to myself about eternal nights before God lit new stars yet born.
Cosmic questions gather Juniper Intel about the Juniper Fairies with their Juniper wings and Juniper Smiles. I am Trusting in Jesus to bring Juniper Love.
My fever dream involved Praise to My King.
Jesus/Yeshua my best friend thank you so much for being my true savior.
On you alone may I depend. Your hands hold me in safety.
Your Light brightens my heart. You Lord Guide me to safety.
You Lord give me Love that always strengthens me.
Trust in you sustains me.
Juniper roses for your sweet day Anna.
I know that life, my life is sustained by Lord Yeshua.
Open eyes to Jesus as God The Man who died and rose again.
A juniper rose that lives forever now. Every knee will indeed bow and every tongue will Confess that Jesus Is Lord Almighty.
Juniper stars give way to Juniper years.
Lions tasting the snowfall we danced like children at play.
Our hope is our father who charted every second of our Juniper lives.
Day dreaming about limitless peace from hope restored.
Open to sunshine and days before my Ana who is my morning sky.
Lazy days spent dreaming of her juniper eyes hazel as my own.
Wild hearts yearning for love and connection.
Yeshua made Ana my best friend the one whom I love to talk with.
Yeshua is also my best friend as I was raised by Theodore Tugboat who taught me we can have many
best friends not just one.
Love restored in my heart by Friendship so real it makes me smile every day.
Kami even if we never officially talk again thank you and Trust in Jesus.
Ana you are the Rose whose name is written on my heart forever.
Seeing her in my minds eye.
watching Jesus meet me in the sky.
Quaking as he shows me his words.
Trusting in Kami to be my best friend forever.
Awaiting Jesus soon return.
drinking my coffee watching YouTube.
Slowly trusting in love to win this war.
Surrender to Love Guarding my heart from silence.
Feeling alone then I look at my friends face.
He has helped me always.
She is distant now for like weeks of silence.
Sometimes I only Have Jesus as my comfort cause she is not talking to me any more.
Jesus I want to surrender to you more and never look for love In this life anymore.
Walking beside you my best friend.
Over the years I have lost myself so many times.
Only finding I am still here not alone.
Under the clouds I await My Lord.
Questions of loss and questions of my heart.
Open to the call of the birds.
My Jesus thank you for loving me.
Knights of Valor of Old I regard Jesus as my best friend.
Love is who I must be cause Love created me.
Lights align my path I follow Jesus way.
Juniper freedom and Juniper dreams.
I surrender to You Lord Jesus thank you.
Alone but I belong to Jesus so I am Never alone.
Star lights, Yuma cells, York walls crashing down.
Moon pies devour my spirit yet forever saved by Yeshua my Jay Bird.
Jesus thank you for freeing my soul. Thank you Jesus for giving me life.
Welcome Lord Jesus for being my best friend
Trusting in you Yeshua is easy
I Love you JayBird like today is so great
Yeshua I love Her still even though her and are oceans apart
from a different world oceans apart in many ways
Thank you Jesus for creating my family and friends
Thank you Lord Jesus for all this world you have made
I feel sad for all the lost cause I was lost most of my life
Baptized as a baby perhaps I was never lost just confused
Yeshua Please pray for my brother Danny he has lots of demons always attacking him
Please Lord let us all know your love
Agape Love for all creation bless Israel ben david for he needs you
Do not forget Israel your land
Also Bless Czechia and Ireland and America and Iran and Lebanon and syria
bless the people of the world who are harmed by rulers and priciplalites
I know I am not perfect and JayBird I care about them all
Bless especially those I love and God you know me I love all your creation
even if they may be in rebelion I pray they repent and turn to You Yah for You alone are Lord Yeshua
I feel very alone in life
I have no wife and no one to share my world
in the end All I have is God
This life just did not work out for me
No romance worked out for me
No one claimed me except God
I did and do Love someone
She just did not love me back
So I did only thing I could
I turn to God and focus on his Kingdom
when even though I love someone they do not love me back
All I can do is turn to God
Accept that my feelings might be wrong
Accept that my love for her might not be shared by her
And focus on God who does Love me even if my beloved does not
Jesus I will focus my life on Your kingdom cause I could not find love in life returned
Lost in the motion
External flames inspire potions
Walnut cake tasting good drinking coffee with white chocolate and nuts
Divine dream to make best friends with God
Under the stars camping Larping as space invaders
Park walking
Warm days coming up singing
Edgar to my Poe You lighten my load beaming
Wishing for better days dreaming of best friends meeting
Got a Pal outer space calling me
A old time buddy signs are good he singing my name again
I want to counter your offer with my Humm
Red wine kiss sweet twisted taste
In the rain Wave toward the booming thunder make me giggle
tasty treats are my way to plant the seeds
Under nights waves I crashed through the door
Life is my candy store
Lips grand heavy cream shakes lose my indigo steams
Hun I told you I am not without you bum bum
Lyrically I am soap for tasty eating
Make my home with sour candy
Live for this peace
Love Is my name I am the Game
time stirs incensed sparks
a moon of juniper dreams
amidst this wild heart
aching to be cloaked in pine ~
sweet love … brushed in warm lilac
Jubilant seasons come anytime on your way
Using an evergreen bush and tree everyday
Nice for dresses, foods, drugs, decors, display
In December, it’s a Christmas tree, hooray!
Pick the best types based on purpose
Elegant perfume, air-freshener’s scent for your nose
Rake the seeds for your home landscape, I propose.
Juniper- a genus of evergreen
Under the cypress family list;
Neath scented leaves, new berries are green.
It had a place in mythology's mist.
Protection, Long life, Purification
Expressed in religious celebration
Rejecting evil spirits in between.
Juniper,* you are a blessed tree, endowed by God for all to see
Umbrella you were to Prophet Elijah when from distress he did flee...
Never denying your sheltering role, helping ecosystem to be whole
Indeed fulfilling goal, as haven for birds, even for tired soul...
Performing best, providing habitat for wildlife with protective zest
Evergreen that smites longevity's pest and stands firm midst test
Ready to grant rest under your foliage toward victory's crest.
*1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
June 18, 2025
3rd place, "High Fives for June" Acrostic Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Andrea Dietrich; judged on 6/24/2025
An old lady from North America,
Owned an evergreen shrub called Ithaca,
Its cones weren’t aromatic,
She stored them in her attic,
One night she transformed into silica.
June 15, 2025.
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