Earth’s stained-glass window –
God’s grace-filled heart reflected
into souls of men.
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Prayers like incense rise
from ruby lips, beryl throats –
Autumn Cathedral.
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My friend Caddo Veil and I hatched a plot and collaborated on this one – they always say 2 heads are better than 1! She penned the opening haiku, and I tacked on the last. What fun! You can read more of her lovely work here.
Meanwhile, Melody Muses... 
Another great trio
Thanks Alistair! It’s always nice to ‘see’ you in the morning! 🙂
You’re welcome. I do enjoy reading your poetry and seeing your images
I’m so glad to hear that! Happy blogging! 🙂
Nice – I liked how two minds worked together on this one!
I’ve never done this before – it was fun!
Hi Melody – Caddo recommended your blog to me, and I can see why. I’ll be subscribing to your blog and looking forward to reading more.
Your collaboration with her on this one is lovely! 🙂
Thank you Betty! Part of the fun of blogging is ‘meeting’ the right people – there is so much to inspire and encourage creativity out there in cyber-space! Nice to ‘meet’ you! 🙂
What a great combination of Caddo’s and yours, like stained glass poems! Beautiful! Thank you!
It was sure fun to do a collaborative piece – there is a first time for everything, right? 🙂
Nice work, we did, Melody–I’m looking forward to more collaborating with you, and maybe a longer one, next time. Thrilled to see Betty made it over here, too!! God bless you, my good friend–love, Caddo
Thank you for the gorgeous prompt! Went to a park today and saw much to delight and tantalize the poetic senses – hopefully some of the pics I took with an inferior camera will produce enough offspring to keep me going for a few more camera-less days…
I have total faith it will, Melody!!
Hi, Melody, Here’s hoping this works… this time of year really brings out the special things to notice…. Love this post of yours.
Thanks Merrill!
This is really strange because it bounced it back as if it wouldn’t post this comment…. That’s why I posted another one.
Strange things are afoot… 🙂
Hope this works… They still don’t have me that I’m following you but they are still sending me your blogs… Somethings really in a snafu.
I love this post of yours… It captures how crisp all our perceptions are this year.
If this is Merrill, they have you with a blank gravatar posting as ‘Someone’ – strange! 🙂
And when I left the other comment above under the snowbirdpress comment, they sent me to another page with the words “invalid key”!!!!
???? Wow – sounds like some sort of spy or cloak and dagger stuff! 🙂
Yes, It’s me, Merril… As you can see I’m in the midst of a very strange snafu in WordPress to be sure. Thanks for your patience with me so I could see how really strange this thing has gotten! I do love your post tonight…. I love prayer/poems.
Ah, well – the more, the merrier, right? 🙂