I AM | Kim Nelson Writes

“Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?”

~ excerpted from”The Summer Day“

by Mary Oliver

I will not falter,

Crater or fail.

I have big plans

I AM not frail.

I shall prevail.

I plan

To live big, know my mind, speak my truth

Love beyond limits, be both proper, uncouth

I plan to embrace opportunity, chance

Plan to create family, joy and romance

I plan to live long, or perhaps short

Really ~ who knows?

But regardless

I plan

♥

To embrace,

Knowing

I chose

This

Way

This wild and precious wonder.

No regrets

In the garden I AM reminded

My role is to love

My charge ~ to accept

When I embrace my divinity, I recognize my humanity.

In my humanity, I recognize yours

Francis was right…

Console ~ Understand ~ Love ~ Give ~ Forgive

Then move on

Move up

Toward Light

Lightness

Enlightenment

As it was alway meant

To Be

I AM currently reading The Reluctant Saint ω The Life of Francis of Assisi by Donald Spoto. It is, indeed, enlightening.

Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is hatred let me bring Your Love. Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord. Where there is doubt true faith in you. Oh, Master, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love with all my heart…

Photo Courtesy of Eric 'Bubba' Alder

Pine needle tears

Wash away my fears

Open up my grieving soul

To love

For I AM weary

I wrote this poem after spending time in the garden. There, no creature envies another’s appearance or attributes. There, beauty abounds in every shape, size, color, form. There, we admire the diversity.

We, especially we women, can learn a lot in the garden. Every living thing is endowed with particular and unique beauty… you, me, she… We simply need to widen our vision, expand, accept, appreciate, relish.

~KIM

♥

I’m feeling especially divine.

That being said…

In my next life,

Next world,

I’m giving birth to six daughters:

Lily

Poppy

Rose

Iris

Daisy

Margarite

And they will be beautiful,

Each in her own distinct way.

Like their namesakes,

Those girls will lift their faces to the sun,

And bask in the wonder of the world.

They’ll add glamour and color, interest, allure

Wherever they find themselves.

With utmost confidence,

Each will embrace her particular uniqueness,

Not covetous, not envious, of other’s attributes,

Sure in the fact that she has exactly what she needs

To Be

Perfect

Happy

Free

*Black Dog!

To you I shall never surrender.

I mistakenly assumed that you’d been tamed.

You proved me wrong.

My guard was down

When you turned with a growl,

Feral and furious and ferocious.

But I AM wild and wily, too;

And I choose

Mastery over you.

So heel!

Back off and back down!

Kim Nelson Writes

Big Plans, Wild and Precious