Living on air

/ K.L.Laettner author(InfiniteZip)

Drifting aimlessly on stormy winds

captured in crevices, caught to be

living on air and no roots to set

into ground beneath our feet.

Natures art decorating places

unexpected like life that paints itself

in sunrise colors and ballooning clouds

that change in a heartbeat

rolling from calm to a darker holding

moving overhead in ominous threat

yet even the darkness is often broken

caught on the clashing fronts

cold to hot to cold to here

where you lie waiting to be released

to wander aimlessly once more

living day-to-day on the air

that we breathe in and out

in steady rhythm in spaces deep

and filled with all it needs

to survive.

We had a nice rain storm last night with a flash of lightning that woke me around 1 am  and this morning as the beautiful sun rose on a pleasant calm yet damp Sunday, found this little plant lodged into the lanai. I see them growing on the lofty oaks above but apparently this one wanted to drop down to visit for a while. I think I’ll let it sit a spell and enjoy. Perhaps I shall call it Stanley…looks like a Stanley to me. Peace and love my friends and Happy Sunday. Hope it’s calm and filled with peace for you.

20 thoughts on “Living on air”

  2. Gonna be a rough time shortly, email best…in the meantime….I’m trying to meditate it through….sigh…..heading back to NY…need all the positivity I can muster. Short visit which if today is any indication….Einstein? Insanity…..expecting something to be different and getting the same results…..damn….WTF…..I give up…..I’m ok, just need to breathe non negativity…surrounded….u know the routine….that’s why I’ve got u.

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  6. Now that is a perfect image, the pearls….we walk every morning and I see that occasionally, the dogs get excited thinking its a squirrel on the line😊 all sorts of new things to see down here😊 have an amazing day😊

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  7. Thanks Sue, they don’t damage the host plant, I always thought it was like a Spanish moss, I see them for sale down here, I think a different form of them, at farmers market. I like a plant I can’t kill😊

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  12. Nature’s vagabond reaching out for a place to settle, immortalized in lovely, loving verse. Do they harm the trees they occupy or are they symbiotic or at worst, harmless?

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  19. Thanks Tre, they are fun little specimens…not sure where Stanley came from but it seemed fitting 🙂 glad you enjoyed. He will hang out today and watch hubby bbq ribs on the smoker. Pool day in the sun 😉

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  20. Stanley has a new home 🙂

    And, these lines are beautiful, Kim:

    “moving overhead in ominous threat

    yet even the darkness is often broken

    caught on the clashing fronts

    cold to hot to cold to here

    where you lie waiting to be released

    to wander aimlessly once more

    living day-to-day on the air

    that we breathe in and out

    in steady rhythm in spaces deep

    and filled with all it needs

    to survive.”

    Simply beautiful.

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