Peggy Hale Bilbro

Eons

I love seeing the wrinkles and folds and layers of Mother Earth exposed in her mountain ridges, flood-scoured canyons, and overflow of her internal fires. I am left in awe of the tremendous forces and the eons and eons of growth and destruction and trauma and change she went through to reach this point in history. She offers herself, as she is, for us to love and care for as we would our human mother.

hiking the canyon rim
a loose stone tumbles
into the past

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About the Author

Peggy Hale Bilbro has her roots in West Texas, grew up in Colorado, and now lives in Alabama. She began writing poetry years ago amidst the agony and ecstasy of graduate studies at Vanderbilt University and has been writing haiku and tanka for over a decade. She enjoys the challenge of finding meaning in a concise form.

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