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Continue reading →: Planting Sunflowers by Moonlight
Here’s the story. Around 9:45 P.M. on Sunday night I had the sudden impulse to plant sunflowers seeds. (We are a couple weeks past when we usually do it!) Ben easily convinced me that it was late and we should just do that the next evening. No argument from me.…
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Continue reading →: When a Mother Prays
I’m a beggar and a mother, interchangeable. Spare these hearts of mine! Spare these hearts of mine! These hearts outside of me—spare them please! But I know it. Have lived it. They won’t escape pain, tragedies. By the tens or hundreds. But let them be. Let them breathe. Let them laugh and love, be…
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Continue reading →: The Grace of God in Seasons of Pain
New Year 2024 found me frustrated, restless, and burnt out. I processed through much of that by March of 2024 and was feeling more settled. Mere weeks later I would discover I was pregnant, then April came in swinging with tough stuff. There was a time in April last year that…
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Continue reading →: Dandelions from a Mother’s Perspective – a poem of love & letting go
a dandelion is a dandelionunlessgiven by a child. in which case it is the whole world,their whole world, plucked, held out—for you. I hold these dandelionsin my palm, pull thesedandelions from my hair,so rich am I to carrysuch love,my joy etched deepin laugh-lines—rivers where all these flowerssoft and wiltingtake root…
Hi!
I’m Sierra
Welcome to my cottage garden in the foothills of California! I’m a poet, gardener, and sunflower enthusiast. Follow for personal poetry and prose rooted in my Christian faith and inspired by the turn of seasons both out of doors and in the soul. Find me on Substack – Green Fables.♥️
Sierra V. Fedorko 