Archive for June, 2009
Three Poems Contemplating Beauty
June 19, 2009Poem 1
Herding the Sheep Clouds
like little pockets
gather soft lint
your thoughts
are tiny films
flickering amber
ideas blossom
into great
lazy sheep clouds
grazing treetops
hum-humming hungry
tasting beauty
for the first time
Poem 2
A Cricket Beneath the Bed
what scratchy songs
tattoo midnight’s silent skin
opening dreameyes
to your message pulsing
through the frigid depths
outside of time
a quickening
of every drowsy cell every star spilled
inside the sleeper’s head
the throb the chirp the light
dripping pooling at last
the soul deciding to take off
her clothes and swim
Poem 3
How Could You Be Otherwise
a silhouette behind a rice paper screen
that’s what you were
before you were born
indistinct shadowy a world
slowly turning towards dawn
that was the dream of you
lank black hair and brown eyes child of mine
how could you be otherwise
then the dreamer awoke
a gnome an old soul
blue eyed and blondish
fourteen years later
long-limbed and curious
musical and beautiful
you are light articulated
you are the why and because
you are the salt the sugar the vinegar
of my very being
Three Short Poems for a Summer Afternoon
June 11, 2009Poem 1
The duck drifts close
to the edge of a man-made
waterfall, too busy preening to consider
what’s over the edge.
Poem 2
Mid-afternoon miniature golf:
small children with scuffed putters.
Parents wisely stand back.
Poem 3
Like a dog, a little boy
chases ducks along the rim
of the pond. Yelping with joy
as they scatter.
