What Crosses My Mind

  • Christmas With My Coffee

    I have music playing, the kind reminds me of my childhood, sitting around the tree, listening to my dad, make Christmas morning bacon. I’m holding my coffee in my hand I have a smile on my face, listening to the past, feeling a bit of life’s Grace. It’s Christmas morning, I know I have my…

  • Morning Drowse

    Just waking up my eyes have to adjust to morning sunlight my thoughts, not yet in my head still dreaming of last nights escapades. It’s funny how when we first wake up we’re not really cognizant of what drives our soul until later in the morning maybe after coffee, we realize our heart still aches…

  • Coffee In The Morning

    I look out my window music playing soft. In my hands cup’s warmth wondering the day ahead. How life changes over time, we might not ever be the same. But our heart is what we feel, on this crisp autumn morning. I sip my coffee wondering what will be my next time.

  • Early Morning

    In the gaze of candles illuminating the room, my children’s faces, held in time to behold. I was wondering about the day, the new year, watching flickering lights waiting for me to decide. I looked up from my coffee slow immediate steam swirls reminding me of beauty, the little things that turn our lives to…

  • Waking Odyssey

    Whole nature of ego crashing down waking a morning slow choosing frown let go Let go Start to drown eating away confidence though conscious of the crown opening eyes in sunlight, embrace ego ©️ Thom Amundsen 8/2021

  • A Gentle Breeze

    I woke to their singing like lounging by the river a fresh morning dew preparing us a sky as blue. ~ This isn’t just remembering more holding truth to who we are when a cloudy mind reflect upon a gentle swaying we select. ~ Last night heard words ringing soft reminders why we are now…

  • Eyes Open

    Glance outside, slatted reminder Cloud cover inside rays of sunlight Awakening to keen choice occasion Mindless storms set aside today We are on rhythm designed a hunter Those whose early rise a sorrow might Upon now themselves haunting derision Having practiced in life what we may For truth will shine in a forever soul Feel…

  • Shaded Tone

    Amid a shelter sun glances my natural setting, I do imagine only the lightest of notion, the beauty of the day, the ease in time, to know our lives were meant to live this way.   When the eyes forever see the forest blend, Is it not a remarkable reality to breathe in, such beauty…

  • Morning Ritual

    Cool haze of a morning frost settles the eye A sky has a limit and shadows do comply While I wonder in warmer tonal slumber cry Winds seek shelter seem to only suggest why. How is it a mind choose to travel this distance While away the morning if by given chance A mood is…

  • A Morning Notion

    Begin in sunlit sky beguiler day The same result might be impossible. We wander in mind to discover way Breathe positivity remarkable. ~ In life to know in peace delightful air Think heartfelt, soulful, suggest promotion. Find fortune inside sweet beautiful fare Solidify choice inside elation. ~ What hold will truth create family love Universals…