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Listening to Winter

by Macrina Wiederkehr

I am listening to the see hidden in the earth.

I am listening to the dark swallowing up the light.

I am listening to faith rising out of doubt.

I am listening to the need to believe without seeing.

I am listening to the season of contemplation,

to the urgency of our world's need for reflection.

I am listening to all that waits within the earth,

to bulbs and seed,

to deep roots dreaming.

I am listening to the sacred, winter rest.

I am listening to the quiet life in winter's womb.

I am listening to winter, nurturing spring.

I am listening to snowflakes flying through the air,

to bare trees, so lovely in their emptiness,

to one leaf that never did let go.

I am listening to winter

handing over spring.

I am listening to the poetry of winter.

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