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Gifts without ribbons

 

By Connie Robillard

 

 

     
 

Gifts without ribbons

are offered with open
hands

Freely given of the earth
Sprinkled by the magic

Dust of imagination…
Intricate as a white snow flake

Who tenderly
Visit the sleeve of
my black coat

Displaying her design
a sacrifice
for one moment of
blissful admiration….

that perfect flake that
touched the wing
of the white egret
yesterday.

brushed the feathers of the
red tail hawk
this morning

traveled on the nose of
the white tailed deer….

Held in illumination
by the
pink sunset
Of this late winter
Afternoon..

Taking time to linger
in the mist of evening fog
Long enough to touch my
Face before I enter
One more perfect dream…

Enriched

by gifts without
ribbons

I rest

 
     
 

Photo by Connie Robillard
 

 

     
 

Connie Robillard is a Certified and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Connie and co-writer / clinician Marcel A. Duclos give trauma healing workshops. Their book, Common Threads – Stories Of Life After Trauma, has just been published. See website.

 
     

 

     
   
     

 

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