One Poem by Ginger Covert Colla

 

Meditation

Find a special place where you can

simply sit quietly in nature’s embrace.

 

This place may be a garden full of beautiful blossoms

where you can hear the buzz of bees,

melodious birdsong or the lullaby of the crickets at dusk

while drinking in the perfume of the flowers filling the air.

 

It may be at the seashore where you soak up

the sound of the waves lapping on the shore

and seagulls trumpeting their seaside serenade.

 

Your chosen moments of meditation may be a

mountain retreat where you can hear the wind

whispering through the pines and perhaps

a woodpecker tapping out his rhythmic cadence.

 

It may be a moment of solitude listening to a

steady rain on the roof or watching snow silently

blanketing the earth with a clean slate of white.

 

Yes, each day may you find a special place

where you can simply sit quietly

and bask in nature’s embrace.

Ginger Covert Colla has written poetry since she was a third grader and was inspired to become a poet when her very first poem was published in the elementary school newspaper. She is author of A Poet’s Life: Memories, Moods and Reflections, a chapbook featuring forty-one poems from her collection and  published in 2021.

 

Dr. Colla is a career music educator with degrees in music education, and both a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting. She also enjoyed a 19-year career as a Kindermusik educator. During that time, she was inspired to create numerous children’s songs and stories. She is the author of a rhymed children’s picture book, The Christmas Elf, illustrated by Judith Gosse and published in 2021.