by Bela Johnson | Aug 3, 2017 | friendship, relationships, suicide, Uncategorized
That strong wiry body she wore like a curse, smiling all the while, nature diffusing her with passion for dun and verdant, fruit and flowers astounding nimble fingers, eyes darting and dancing with delight not reciprocated in a world of humans she tried to forgive as...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 29, 2017 | country living, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Between the bars stretch conifers as far as the eye can behold, awaiting the damp silence of morning, hollow bellow of a moose’s call or the twitter of chipmunks on a tireless errand to provide for frigid months ahead, always and perpetually in view; To raise one’s...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 18, 2017 | family, musings, philosophy, self awareness, spirituality, Uncategorized
I grew up amidst plenty, Depression-era lack transformed into expensive Japanese silk paintings hung above a cut glass table, black lacquer chairs, raw silk seats reserved for holidays unfit for seven children, dreams of people I never really knew, though they...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 12, 2017 | love, Uncategorized
Who knows which of us first decided to move on it, heed the call, answer the pounding pulse in full presence of the other; The heart I hold tender yet firmly in these cupped gardener’s hands is revealed without guile, a fistful of manna, food for the gods...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 7, 2017 | creativity, musings, personal, poetry, Uncategorized, writing
Quill pressed to vellum and the raven liquid bleeds onto the page, seeping into parchment as words impress themselves on minds of those who seek elucidation; There is no turning back save the alchemy of fire, while a mere century later, fingers snap plastic keys as a...
