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Quotes from John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain