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CAPTURED IN WORDS
BY LORRAINE JOHNSON
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[153] Into the Abyss
You know its time when peepers start to call a dark x on their back and bans on their legs they fit in and sing with purpose and plan as...
Apr 16, 20231 min read
[152] From Which Crack
Gentle drips of raindrops call at my door and the crow squawks and the chicken cocks as the flower creeps through the cracks while...
Apr 1, 20231 min read
[151] The In-Between
"Why do we prune the garden?" the little girl asked. "So the branches can sculpt new beginnings," said the old woman. "And why do we need...
Mar 12, 20231 min read
[150] Yesterday Knows Me Not
I am unknown for I am numerous possibilities Walk with me today as yesterday knows me not Fleeting, I am, as the day turns dark I wonder...
Feb 23, 20231 min read
[149] The Wonder
Too much time not enough in the distance comes the train chug, chug it's making time I wonder who fills its charm. Back and forth the...
Feb 18, 20231 min read
[148] The Space Between
The space between neither here nor there like deep, dark clouds rumbling voice across the sky with drops of water, standing watch not yet...
Feb 12, 20231 min read
[147] To Know
To wander with ancient wisdom, old forests, and deep waters is to know the understory of people, place and purpose, is to know humanity...
Jan 29, 20231 min read
[146] Restless
Restless I sit, as the wind rustles, outside my door with flocks of birds left unfound, as frozen flakes fall to the ground. And I,...
Jan 15, 20231 min read
[145] An Ordinary Day
I want to live an ordinary day full with long moments filling me whole caressing my soul, with hearts that beat, ground and astound,...
Jan 8, 20231 min read
[144] Filling Voids
I wake in dawn, with longing dreams. Though traveled far against the tide, fond footprints aren't far behind. Tick tock goes the clock,...
Dec 27, 20221 min read
[143] Once
Wander deep in the wood outside the urban sprawl across green scapes and widened skies so near to touch if I could fly. Knew me once as...
Dec 23, 20221 min read
[142] Go With
But a speck against the blue see it flap—to and fro take a glide and move right through across gusts or calm no pause it takes it has to...
Dec 17, 20221 min read
[141] Change
I watched it as it came and saw its shades as were made it turned from yellow to fiery red fading fast till all was shed then stillness...
Dec 4, 20221 min read
[140] Fill Up The Room
Sun, wind, the hum and sea moving shoreward, wild and free like birds soar alone, together we gather and move in groups of two, in groups...
Nov 20, 20221 min read
[139] A Moment
A life of moments a flow of choice it's all we have as we move through time we land in place, then pick another we choose to come, we...
Nov 5, 20221 min read
[138] For A While
There's a stream that flows and sings traveling miles over rocky earth gently, steadily it creates its path effortlessly it moves, over...
Oct 23, 20221 min read
[137] A Place to Wander
See the darkness as the light a place to wander to know your might.
Oct 15, 20221 min read
[136] Light Steps
The wind whispers, gently, close your eyes listen, as it sings— walk lightly in the world to see, to feel, the story unfold sit at the...
Oct 9, 20221 min read
[135] The Place
The place that forms I steps back in time reblooming days and reframing eyes memories delay the impermanence of forms and warm...
Oct 1, 20221 min read
[134] Spun
The humming bird and silence calls around the bush, we circle all unspoken words, the bird chirps on the thread is spun —before truth is...
Sep 25, 20221 min read
[133] Walk The Earth
In the departure, I return down narrow passages of white washed walls expanded views of green and growth and salty sands meeting...
Sep 17, 20221 min read
[132] Waning Days
As the seagull mews so goes the echoing waves counting tales of yesterdays reaching sandy shores where tiny birds scurry leaving gentle...
Aug 28, 20221 min read
[131] The Pause
The Pause—be it long or short knows not time. It's where the flowers live, the trees sway the moon shines the mind dreams the kiss lives...
Aug 20, 20221 min read
[130] Holding Space
Thoughts seep out of pockets tucked deeply out of sight from the bustling of days filled with many shiny lockets and nights on soft...
Jul 16, 20221 min read
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