Here, on a windswept
high plateau, is where
I have most come
to feel att home.
This is also where the
words came to me -
in my own,
my chosen home -
and where I started
my exploration
of what it means,
to be at home.
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HOME -
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IN MY OWN,
MYOCHOSEN0HOMEEEEr
In my own
my chosen home
On a high plateau
all alone
yet cozy
a nest
and large
inviting in
each day
I feel blessed
inviting in
for the eyes
the flocks of birds
the morning mist
the
nighttime sky
inviting in
the forest
that
changes day by day
to
russets and reds
to
shades of gray
I feast my eyes
I feel blessed
in this
my chosen home
I've come to rest
with cats
and dog
and partner
and stepchild
with friends, my friends
and theirs
those we invite in
the landscape is always our guest
we invite it in on each side
through huge windows
with
warm wood frames
and we begin
to put down roots
plant rose bushes
wild
roses
near the barn
I move from room to room
can't settle down
my eyes feast
can't settle on just one
sight
though in this
my chosen home
I've
settled in
and
settled
blossom
from
deep inside
open
wide
my arms
my heart
which
whispers
cries
let
the loving start
it's love that floods in
from each field
each far-off farm
each sunrise sunset
each far distant hill
it's love that warms each cell
overflows the heart
the autumn fields
long grasses
furrowed lines
will yield
to winter
to spring
to summer sun
I stand watching
feeling
tall
slim tufts of hay swaying
just
outside my window
because we've delayed
mowing
the field around us
I like the tall dry grass
it's hard to leave
to tear myself away
I invite
I long to stay
and to share
this
my
chosen home
on
a high plateau
cosy
large
spacious
warm
my
home
Elsa
October 2, 2000
copyright © Elsa Schieder 2000, 2011, all rights reserved
publishing house - FlufferDuff Impressions 2006, 2011
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In my own, my chosen home,
on a high plateau, all alone,
yet cozy, a nest, I've come to rest,
I feel blessed.
Happiness Poem. Happy Poem.
All around are
the places we live in.
But what does it mean, to be at home?
My father never felt at home.
In my own, my chosen home -
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on the sense of home.
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home schooling, home fooling, home and garden,
family, street, neighborhood, countryside, familiar sights and sounds,
safety, security, comfort, a roof over my head, a place to put my bags down,
a place to call my own,
the world is my home, the world is my oyster,
o give me a home,
my home my native land, homeland, mother tongue, father land, deep rooted,
home place, homestead, homesteading, home ties,
chosen home, highrise, condo, apartment, house, split level, farm, barn,
farmyard, vegetable garden, flower beds, homeless animals, shelter, sheltering,
the sheltering sky, the sweltering sky, the far north, wide open spaces,
chosen home, the seasons, the world is my home, my home is the world, at home
in,
at home in words, at home in ideas, at home among people, forever at home, never
at home,
homeless and friendless, not a friend in the world, a friend in need is a friend
indeed,
the luxury of choice, not feeling a home, out of place, o give me a home
and then happy poems flow
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