Sweet Bread and Tea
A tradition of women
who have long since passed.
Has given belonging
to those who are last.
We stand in the clovers,
we pour tea at its best.
As the sweet bread is served
among all the rest.
May the Celtic women
long survive,
into the histories
and the archives.
copyrighted : 2025 Christine McNeill-Matteson
Definer
Describe something you learned in high school.
Allow no one to define you, no matter how sophomoric they see you . You are the determiner of your own destination.
High school will be the first place you learn culture .
Finding Peace in Winter’s Embrace
The snow is a silent falling this morning .
white dress of winter’s prominence .
The temperatures are equally a quiet
presence as the single digits fall .
The birds are hushed with gray sky’s
hanging a winter blanket in the fields,
touching, no lines, no horizons
just gray on white and back again.
I bathe in the silence of aloneness.
Tucked in my home and
I am warmed by the fire,
knowing in the winter’s storm
I am blessed.
Copyrighted 2025 CMM.
The Soul in Me
Do you ever see wild animals?
I ran in the middle of Alaska snow
As long as I ran I did not know
There were always a wild creature
Soon waiting for me .
It could have been a moose who looked
As I ran by and turned and took
Another way always seemed best
Among the snow and quiet unrest
A moose is kind but unafraid
And has chased after me, many a day
Then there were the large ravens flight
Who ran and skipped and flew in-spite
Of seeing me just ahead
and never reasoned never dread
A red fox came by once and peeked
Then on his way with his swift feet
Snow brown bear in the distance
Bison’s caught some resistance .
If you venture to go running in Alaska terrain
Be prepared for anything from snow to rain
Embracing Darkness: A Journey Through Advent
Just sit with me in the darkness
As Advent moves in.
You do not have to fix it,
Please, just listen in our silence.
Just sit with me,
in the darkness.
Because someone sat with me,
I was ok,
the darkness soon faded away.
Eagle and Child Inkling 