jgregorywright.com » kate sherrod http://jgregorywright.com A man with a keyboard and too much time on his hands. Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Footsteps of Giants http://jgregorywright.com/2009/10/31/footsteps-of-giants/ http://jgregorywright.com/2009/10/31/footsteps-of-giants/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:42:57 +0000 Some Dude http://jgregorywright.com/?p=10 For Kate, of Suppertime Sonnets fame.

Footsteps of giants may shake the earth
  frequently without regard
    for consequences or outcomes

Yet how often are mountains moved
  seas parted
    hearts and minds opened
      by gentle footfalls of the thoughtful?

While rain fills holes roughly made
  in soil ravaged by the careless

Tears fill footprints left behind
  where one has touched us
    deeply in passing

Dams burst, creating floods
  of Biblical proportions
    after the silent departure
      of those who danced in our heart

Though it may come to pass
  that thoughtless wounds
    to Gaia’s body
      will heal and fade

Footprints left by gentle giants
  are not so easily filled
    indelible markers of fertile ground
      seeded by vast minds,
        watered by genuine tears

Who is to say what will grow -
  magic beans? golden geese?

What is sown by the mighty
  with kindness and generosity
    tended with unconditional love
      can only bring forth beauty
        for which words are truly inadequate.

Kate lost a dear friend this week whom she had never had an opportunity to meet. After hearing from other sources that Mac Tonnies had apparently died alone while no one at his place of work thought to check in on him after three days of absence, I could understand even more why Kate resembled someone who had taken a hard punch to the solar plexus.

If you haven’t “met” Kate (sadly, the soonest I will likely get to meet the Wyoming Muse will be at Balticon 44 in May 2010), you need to check out Suppertime Sonnets and Kate’s Twitter stream.

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