What I Miss
by Soul Places | Diane Ludeking
The Roiling, Boiling Upper Iowa River, Decorah, IA. Copyright Diane Ludeking 2013
I miss the coyotes.Her voices,muffledby the wallsthat hold the roofabove me,become clearlike spring water at its sourcewhen I step into the night.I miss the coyotes.Her joyful criesturned desperateby menwith riflesand grins.I miss the coyotes.Her predatory tension,now absent,becomes a voidin the night sky,an empty den,at-ease horses,pleasant pheasantsand reposeful rabbits.I miss the snow when it melts.I miss the floods when they recede.I miss the trees consumed by progress.I miss the coyotes.I miss the way I never used to miss things.
What do you miss? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
I miss you, Reader, Friend & Journeyer. I miss writing.
It has been almost six months (wow, that’s a long time considering I used to blog every week) since I have met you here. I think I’m ready to get back to it. Maybe not every week yet, but I’m ready to be back.
I took the time off to be with my ailing cat and horse. Both have since passed.
I look forward to a regular rendezvous with you here again. Blessings, Diane
Soul Places 
I am grateful for your return.
Everything gone is somewhere . . .
Thanks, Julie. Words of wisdom at just the right time!
I miss the older generations.
I miss the words sprung from soul places – no more.
Thanks, Rebecca. I’ve been missing my paternal Grandparents these days. Their anniversary would have been tomorrow, but they passed over long ago.
Oh so good to see you resurface. It must be spring!
Hi Liese. Yes. A tiny green sprout has been found.
welcome back!!! I miss you, the sunshine the who of the owl
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Thanks, Mom! Expressing your inner poet, I see 🙂
thoughts for you with your animal loves passing on – never easy. And of course wonderful that the poetry still comes after all that too, and perhaps not coincidence that it concerns the missing of important things in nature. you inspire me to do a blog….but just cannot get around to it just yet in the massed chaos of crises in my own life! 🙂
Thank you, Jane, for your kind words and thoughts. If you have considered blogging, I urge you to do so. I would love to read it when you are ready. I am sorry to hear about the crisis in your life and send you ease and love. Blessings, Diane
Thank you and you’re welcome…one day maybe the blog will emerge. It’s Janet by the way not Jane – my ‘moniker’ is a bit confusing I know! but a composite of all my names. At present, am learning about bringing ‘light’ to any crisis, and then standing back a bit….it might actually BE a starting point for the blog?! rather than a barrier to it. i enjoy your posts – there is something about quietness and depth and an otherness to them which I feel sit good with me.
Hi Janet – I was going to say Janet and picked Jane instead 🙂 I love that image of bringing ‘light’ to your challenges. The way you are mulling around ideas for this blog, I can see it becoming a reality really soon. It is speaking loudly to you and may be a great way to have some witnessing for your stories. Thank you again for your kind words; they sit good with me! Love and Light to your Life, Diane
And the same to you! I finally thought I would go and create a blog without having any idea what to do – found a ‘free site’ on google?? and wrote from my heart. then I pressed a key to colour the text as it seemed a very oversimple design I didn’t much like, and the whole thing vanished! I’m afraid my heart is not strong enough to redo at this time, and I think that is the experiment to blog is over for the time being…sadly. I don’t understand the technical process enough or how it works, why etc. though I do know I have things to share. I don’t want/need more complications in life…back to sitting in the light I guess, and waiting, trusting, letting go.
Darn it!! So sorry to hear it all disappeared and BRAVO for attempting it. WordPress is free and easy to use when you are ready to give it another try – I have no doubt it will come around again. WordPress has an autosave so that when you are writing your draft, you will never lose it all again. The resistance is strong in this story you want to share – must mean it is important! Hugs, Diane
Thank you…think I need you as my mentor! well, it’s time for bed here so a chance to disappear my ‘self’ for a bit too – and think – sometime – I will try restarting on WordPress instead, as you advise. A shower of blessings to you (that comes from Jimmy-James the saffron-and-clotted cream-coloured cat too by the way – tho it might give away his origins though!)
Good Day, Janet! I love the idea of guiding your writing process. Email me if you want to converse around this some more: soulplaces@gmail.com. I am insanely curious about this Jimmy-James! Creatively, Diane
Oo thank you again Diane, I will get round to that maybe after I’ve got some of this knot of difficulties a little more loosened…not an excuse I hope, but hard to concentrate enough on anything else for too long at present, let alone something so new yet (especially after that ‘puff of smoke’ first try.) Time/energy. Think my mind is a bit blog-boggled (sorry!) by the immensity of it.
Jimjams is well pleased you are ‘insanely curious’ about him!! He does lurve to be ‘mentioned in dispatches’ (or indeed anywhere). He is of course thebestcatinthewholeworld. I WOULD attach a photo…but don’t know how to on this- no surprise there. tch. never mind, Perhaps he may make a few appearances in whatever I can come up with later.
Goodnight (it’s 11pm here and a beautiful half moon)
glad you are back. you were missed
sorry Diane
Thanks, Cindy!
I miss youthful energy, skin and silly optimism. But I have adjusted and somehow continue to come up optimistic, wise or not! (thanks for making me think!)
Thanks for sharing, Cindy!
I love this. The last line=wow. I still haven’t wrapped my head around it. Perhaps I’m not in a place where I miss things…yet. Perhaps I am on the way to finding things I will someday miss and that is how I’ll know those things are worth finding.
Very thoughtful, Andrea. Thanks for sharing this.
I miss our meetings. I assume I would have heard if you were doing anything like them again?
I’m doing a lot of random writing – nothing of any consequence. I do 750words.com and write in my on line diary. There is a new version of the diary I’m dabbling in. I tried twitter and haven’t left the nest. Plus I carry my stripey notebook.
I get quite a bit of satisfaction from any and all of the above.
I wish you good luck and happiness.