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Death and Dying Healing Hope Nature Poetry Spirituality

What the Trees Teach

Arborial Tutelage You message each other through networks of mycelium, and I, mere admirer, breathe in your gifted air, cycle it through my cells, exhale thoughtlessly. Oh, sturdy uprights—…

MelindaApril 27, 2026

Hope Mindfulness Nature Parenting Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

To hell, to hell with this dry well

(To confront writers block, she) Mixed metaphors. Now I understand it was never about the others. Not their timeline, their values. Not the scripts we were fed about how to be and behave in this…

MelindaDecember 2, 2025

Death and Dying Healing Hope Nature Spirituality

Through the Window New buds adorn the ratty something-or-other bush. Does it mind being unnamed? No, comes the echo of an answer. My life outside your window does not revolve around what you might call…

MelindaApril 21, 2025

Death and Dying Healing Hope Meditation Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 9

Part 9 You can read part 8 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-8 The skies grew dark earlier and Moon stayed longer. Sun still warmed the skies, but the air was crisp and cool. Trees on the banks of…

MelindaSeptember 17, 2023

Hope Mindfulness Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Through Emerald Eyes

1. I saw an army of righteous green soldiers, spines erect, facing away from the wind to trick the opposition into doubting their strength. 2. Another day, a thousand brushes— great green swaths of them,…

MelindaJuly 31, 2023

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

A Little Bullish

I know, I know. Much is not right here in the world. We conjure and raise up hatreds and fears born of misconceptions. We bow down to profit and convention instead of the goodness in…

MelindaJune 23, 2022

Family Love Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Writing

Sixty Unplugged Minutes with my Love

I used a text to carve an island from a Thursday in two overloaded lives. I typed 10 to 11 Walk with me. Moose Hill. I meant Come. To the refuge down the road, the…

MelindaMay 5, 2022

Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga Yogabilities™

All This Joy, All This Sorrow

Monday, March 28, morning. It’s snowing as I write this. Big, fluffy flakes that arrive past the date of our northern hemisphere Spring equinox. I wonder if they know they won't accumulate. If they did…

MelindaMarch 28, 2022

Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality

I Wish You Knew

In the Garden Imagine if you will, dear one, dear one and all, that you are sent to manifest something unique and quite vital to the world. You arrive as rich seeded earth, landing…

MelindaJanuary 17, 2022

Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Writing

Time, Place, Classroom

WHEN The world gets so noisy. Too many voices straining, pushing past their natural limits to be heard. Our small ears can’t discern provenance or factuality. Reactions quicken, turning knee-jerk, protective. WHERE There is the…

MelindaJune 3, 2020

What the Trees Teach

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