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A WELL TRAVELED HEART

Cynthia M. Sheward

Tag: death

MATTER

Matter persists… Read More MATTER

January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Cynthia M. Sheward3 Comments

THE TALL STRANGER

When the tall stranger steps into my kitchen…… Read More THE TALL STRANGER

August 21, 2021November 17, 2021 Cynthia M. Sheward2 Comments

VIGIL

She is sixteen when leukemia claimes her…… Read More VIGIL

April 8, 2021November 17, 2021 Cynthia M. Sheward9 Comments

PERSISTANCE

Do not spirits too persist?… Read More PERSISTANCE

March 16, 2021November 17, 2021 Cynthia M. Sheward1 Comment

PROMISE

Please no box, no steel to seal me from the earth. Return me when it is my time to all I was and wish to be again. Release me to be born anew, green and wonderful each Spring – shoots sprouting from my heart each part of me blooming. Promise me.

May 18, 2020January 26, 2021 Cynthia M. ShewardLeave a comment

FLYING FREE

It isn't all bad...

To go in a puff of feathers, a glory of days…… Read More FLYING FREE

March 17, 2020March 24, 2020 Cynthia M. Sheward2 Comments

FOXCROSS FARM

When I think of the farm it’s the stone bridge and countryroad curving by the low barn. It’s Tony’s tomatoes, white peacocks. When I think of the farm, I see pinetrees, green pastures, the bramble roses by the creeksheep standing in the field. When I think of the farmI watch women spinning woolthe whir of… Read More FOXCROSS FARM

September 10, 2019December 11, 2019 Cynthia M. Sheward4 Comments

SMALL ABANDONMENTS AND LEAVE TAKINGS 

I thought elephants danced in the car as my aunt clasped me, age two with pneumonia and mom drove to hospital – I screamed when they left so the doctors forbade future visits. I was alone with nurses and needles for two long white weeks. Pat left me tied, age five, to a phone pole.… Read More SMALL ABANDONMENTS AND LEAVE TAKINGS 

May 23, 2019July 20, 2019 Cynthia M. Sheward9 Comments

PASSAGES

Midnight wings unfurl into updrafts of spirit. Does seed fear the ground? Waves the sea? A dog barks in a mountain village as color falls from treasured face. What’s the weight of a breath? The heft of a sigh? A husk drops to the ground to rattle and roll down the hedgerow. In their earthen… Read More PASSAGES

November 21, 2017May 26, 2019 Cynthia M. Sheward2 Comments

SHEPHERDESS

Himalayas

She fell like seed on good ground – giving herself as final gift to land she’d walked and worked for years. Leaving stories, laughter, tears, memories of forthright speech the love of liberty – her fierce, unyielding heart, flying free.                              … Read More SHEPHERDESS

November 20, 2017May 23, 2019 Cynthia M. Sheward

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