Nature. 21 poems. 10 pages
1.
Silken Threads
White snow on black lashes fall
peppermint kisses, wind-fall downward
trickle, tickle my nose and ear.
I laugh as the moon smiles through the trees
Wind drifts tiny particles of snow
blowing, converging into lines,
silken, blowing across the smooth black road
like woman’s hair.
2.
Reminiscent
I spend more of mine
splendor.
Reminiscent
of love,
as the light drags.
3.
Smiling Moon
White snow on black lashes fall
peppermint kisses
windfall down
trickle
tickle my nose
I laugh as the moon smiles
through the trees.
4.
Path through the Pines
Pines bend over me silently watching, throwing
snow down at me in bundles.
effervescent love, done. go home, run.
I laugh as the moon smiles
through the trees.
I stumble through pines
laughing back at me.
They step back and tower,
watching, made for me
a sea of glee
so I my path
can plainly see.
5.
Fall, Winter and Spring
Leaves fallen on the ground
thin and waxy
break like chips.
The waves in the water
reflect rhythmic lines of light
on the underside of the trees.
I wander the earth
like it’s the under verse.
I see my face swell
in laughter, in the sunlight.
The canaries only sing at and after noon.
The days decrease with time
Winter is coming.
In winter
it gets dark
at five o’clock in the evening.
I watch the shadows
move like time,
as the deer
flesh through dusk,
birth
new vile
warm
on cold earth
a sin at last.
a light. a life. a view. into the horizon I
scatter. like light on a new born fawn.
I, an angel, wake in the silence of light.
6.
Frogs Glowing
Periwinkle blue
Slander yellow
killer soft hues
quiet in virtue
a silly laugh
dances like time
skipping across
the water
Sunshine glow
When the frogs
sing, the
water dances
ripples around
their cheeks.
7.
Morning, Noon, Night
Day Dreams
white willows
bask in the moonlight
as the twilight of morning fingers
happiness over the landscape.
The blue shadows converge with cream hues of day,
as the dew evaporates into the air,
leaving me.
The Robins are the first birds to sing in the morning,
when the moon settles like dust.
One by one new birds emerge
giving glory to the sun as it grows.
My horses stay out all night.
Dew settles on their velveteen fur
so like the grasses of earth
and they dry to a sleek crisp by morning's end.
We are all creatures of the earth,
subject to it's tendencies.
I break from the heat of the day
to satisfy my hunger's plead,
And lay my head to rest with the sun,
as my soul wanders with the melonous moon
about, and about.
8.
Singing Willows
Curly willows milk
the saps of earth below them.
and sing like moon light
9.
Nocturnal
the moon light filters
across the floor left to right
the rabbit shuffles
10.
Duck Nest
Nestled among
The wild grasses
And reindeer lichen
Live the young oaks
Sheltered by the
Golden grasses
Overlooking
Nestled
Beneath the sky
11.
Crane’s Echoe
beyond the gray sky
the cranes dance on the plateau
a laughter lingers
12.
Photonic Powder
butterfly wings soft
powder your dust on the moon
silken threads link dreams
13.
Bending Light
Chime elegant love
sweet mind sighs forgotten thoughts
dry grass bends gold sun
14.
Purity of Desire
tenebrae laugher
sings elemental desire
holiness forfeits
15.
Eternal Bliss
the canary sings
deliberate trills forever.
fine posture comforts.
16.
Ambient Soul
A single flower, a single figure
Dark, stands black alone
Underneath the sky.
Feel the twilights of morning
Twinkle your feet.
I feel my soul wander
About, and about,
17.
Ricochet Doe
I don’t even care
about the twilights of night
Those blue hues of shadows engulf
Me and I clutch to the memory,
the feeling of soft voices
and discovering no one’s there but
a wary doe scurrying
scattering in the silence of the lavender morning and crisp grasses
before anyone else was awake. I watched her flee. She must have heard me.
Let me be free
in the twilights of morning
like a doe
scattering like light
ricochet out of sight.
18.
Raptor Ascending
A craggily tree stressed with life
Clutches the soul of the earth with vigor.
a brown hawk in a high tree
overlooking. above everything here, so small
and meaningless.
to spread your wings, branch them o’er the earth
Cast your shadow beyond my sight,
Release talon grip on the branch and hover
Still. Amidst Air. Suspended, in the gusting updrafts
that gently lift upward, cliffward. A shift of the tail, a bend of the wing and
ascend. dart. disappear
into the white.
19.
Oceanic Surge
A patch of rain falls.
It’s yours.
Catch me deep when you sleep.
Take the rain that fell on your heart
and head, and take me in my dear.
I am drawn in by your tide
governed by the moon.
a hazy storm shines above the ocean
I shine down like rain
Take me in the ocean
drown in me your rain.
20.
Fall
And I feel it coming on to me like the wind.
Velvet leaves flicker downward. It’s fall.
21.
Silvery Wonders
Moon shallows
Silvery wonders.
Seven shadows
Glimmering whispers.
22.
The Robins Crack
The Robins crack their chirps and the light begins to fade
And the walrus in the midnight sun squeals for the last time
Fading in the moonlight.
And the stars were flung on the ground and they chatter.
Here we know the knights we know and the day pacifies into the twilights where the bird will sing, just once in the moonlight, in the twilights.