Through Pine Shadows

<p>About <em>Through Pine Shadows</em></p><p>In word play and word music in narratives and lyrics formal and free verse Carol R. Sunde shares real and imaginary experiences and observations. She muses about stumbling and dancing through a life full of lessons losses gains; times of exaltation despair and in-betweens accompanied by peace or boredom or many tears or much laughter-an ordinary life as unique as each person's existence.</p><p> </p><p>Excerpt from the poem Dear Ones</p><p>Just be.</p><p>Diving ducks will dabble in shallow water.</p><p>Kestrels hover and drop straight down</p><p>           slipping through the molecules.</p><p>Reflected in the eye of the owl</p><p>           is a great rose window of a cathedral.</p><p>Loons known for their haunting wail</p><p>           wail songs that tumble through the air.</p><p> </p><p>Try asking:</p><p>What wonders are these?</p><p>Why is there so much love in them-</p><p>          hope the thing with feathers?</p>