I’ve got an eye on you

Posted on September 5, 2021 by areilly88

I remember these cool waters, and still I glow

Posted on August 26, 2021 by areilly88

Dreaming of Summer

Posted on April 7, 2021 by areilly88

This winter has been more challenging for so many of us in different and similar ways. Personally, I can see the value in periods of relative isolation and dormancy, but I am also celebrating the change of seasons, balancing my wish to appreciate the present with my intentions to create and welcome the new. The metaphors are rich, but so too are the simple pleasures of being warmed by the sun and noticing the scent and feel of the sea breeze.

Wishing you all well and grateful for the connections here!

On Finding Harmony

Posted on January 26, 2021 by areilly88

20×20 acrylic on canvas

Snow Day

Posted on March 5, 2019 by areilly88

New snowfall through starless night
Laden trees with cotton tufts
Now, luminous tendrils
Against the dawn sky

“Snow Day!” cheers rang through the house
As kids, alert in their still warm pajamas
Danced with anticipated snow forts
And other forbidden weekday play

All whilst their parents, bent over for boot lacing
Felt their backs groan, remembering
The last storm, which wasn’t the last
Not nearly the last, after all

If they noticed anything
Beyond their full shovels
The rhythmic, industrious scraping
It wasn’t apparent to anyone

Until the laughter of their children
Rattled the glass panes
And impelled them notice
Breath-stained windows, mindful nudges

Look up and see!
The vast sky of carefree days
Your perception
Malleable as wet snow

Witness the very moment
When fading midnight embers
That blue-lit, sparkling tree line
Those inky nighttime remnants

Become the new day
© Amanda Reilly Sayer

Meditation (safe harbor)

Posted on February 28, 2019 by areilly88

I thought it would be different
Peace and stillness, perhaps
Buoyant rest on polished velvet

Instead, the quiet tideline beckons
Foretelling the pendulum of crescent surf
Of storms and variegated skies

Pause, notice

The sound of stillness in motion
Vibrating stars on a summer night
Waves against the rocky shore

Then the whispered reminder:
You are the boat and the water
Sanctum and sea
©️ Amanda Reilly Sayer

Haiku #4

Posted on January 28, 2019 by areilly88

Windswept winter dunes
Infinite ebb and flow tides
You can start anew
©️Amanda Reilly Sayer

Haiku #3

Posted on January 27, 2019 by areilly88

To be is enough
Put down your expectations
Watch your world transform
©️ Amanda Reilly Sayer

Haiku #1

Posted on January 25, 2019 by areilly88

Humbling hindsight may
Fuel the habits of shame, so
Steady your grindstone
©️ Amanda Reilly Sayer

Winter’s Kiss

Posted on January 21, 2019 by areilly88

Fertile ground in dormant slumber
  unmade bed of rusted green
Smoothed by winter’s coverlet
  still, in silent preparation

Can you see beauty
  in the skeleton tree lines?
The jubilation of up-stretched limbs?

Shadow crowns dance
  over blankets of fresh snow
New canvas for angel wings

Can you find solace
  in the sound of brittle steps?
The bite of frigid air?

Allow the earth to catch you
  in buoyant powder
Feel the awakening kiss
  on your bare neck
© Amanda Reilly Sayer