Reflections

Shirley

Dunn

Perry

  • Be Like a Cloud

    flow in the direction of the wind no resistance to its currents and constant change enjoy soft edges and flexibility create beauty in enthusiastic sunsets and hallelujah choirs in morning songs move with the herd or saunter along on a solitary stroll bring rain cover the sun dance to the universal drum SDP 2024

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  • Silence

    silence invites me into her kitchen for a tea ceremony not a word passes between us the sound of tea being poured more than enough SDP 2019

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  • Purpose

    trees speak silence arms up roots down steady from the beginning a seed Note: Poem first published in terrain.org 2004  Sketch of Oak tree Molino Basin campsite.

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  • I see you clouds what an amusement you are continual change heralding freedom

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  • Sacred Space

    each moment of your life has brought you to the Sacred Space of Your Self there are no mis-steps be still in this Sacred Moment SDP 2018 Watercolor: General Hitchcock Campsite Mt Lemmon

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  • Poetry for Trees

    my day with trees started out quietly till Douglas Fir requested a poem I recited Emily Dickinson pine needles twinkling in sunlight thanked me saying that we were kindred spirits I nodded, and took a nap on the picnic table sky brought a dream-vision of world peace each person offering their gifts to one another…

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  • Trust

    trust the breeze to know where it is going trust the sunlight to know when to shine trust each step of your journey artfiftytwo.com/ shirley-dunn-perry

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  • Stillness

    stillness teach me the magic of being in place bless me with your love of silence wisdom of peace artfiftytwo.com/ shirley-dunn-perry

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  • Broken

    Divine Love enters me through the cracks the raw edges now shining with Light who would have thought that being broken could bring wholeness artfiftytwo.com/ shirley-dunn-perry

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  • Reflection

    all the doing I worry about getting done sinks to the bottom of the lake the lake surface clear as a mirror reflects the sky and becomes one   Wildflowers watercolor 2015  SDP artfiftytwo.com/shirley-dunn-perry

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