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Rayn Roberts

Rayn Roberts

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Category: Wilderness

August 13, 2020September 13, 2020Rayn Roberts

Éirí Amach na Cásca 

                                                            (Irish for the Easter Rising)   April wilderness stone cold rushing waterfall. Wearing my nakedness as a bear his fur I’m not skinny but I am […]

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August 2, 2020August 2, 2020Rayn Roberts

The Scheme of Things

In a breakneck chase the moose calf goes down, a grizzly devours. wolves stalk for hours    the bison get away. the pack sustain on voles     and mice mostly go hungry a crow eats the nestlings in a robin’s nest    still robins abound. green turtles    on a beach    lay eggs      swim off in the deep. all […]

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July 22, 2020August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

It Happened So Quickly

Light in a sapphire over exquisite wine campfire-light and shadows on a redwood grove, Daughter of Ceto naked in the ferns waterfall pouring behind you guarding the portals of Salmon Creek sun of all worlds          our fiery heart Diablo winds          coming in news of a fire somewhere, Big Sur summer. […]

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July 7, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

Seer in the Wilderness

Before dark or star rock or water before the wings of the sky floated over the earth I was called to a calm that mimics stillness but is eternal motion to stillness that mocks death because it wakes in the womb of dawn Because the sun is the eye of an immense bird that flies […]

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January 5, 2019January 7, 2019Rayn Roberts

Buseoksa Moon South Korea

There’s a bus to nowhere, somewhere I think is home.
I feel the half moon human mind moving to fullness
clearly asking, “Will you stay with the solemn monks
Or return to the maddening city life of hell in Seoul?”

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July 14, 2017Rayn Roberts

Things We Cannot Name

For JD How long it took to know, however hard we wished There was no return, no starting over for us – With an ocean between I recall a day in California The fire of summer inside Cool blessing of water nearby Our spirits falling to the clarity of desire and later Waist-deep in mountain […]

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